Initial Unity3D project

using git for Unity3D

1. Create a project with Unity
2. Edit → Project Settings → Editor → Version Control Mode: Visible Meta Files
3. Edit → Project Settings → Editor → Asset Serialization Mode: Force Text

    cd ~/path/to/unity/project/
	
    git clone https://github.com/thunderrabbit/unity3d-starter.git  tmp
    cp tmp/.gitignore .
    echo "my great project" >> README.md
    rm -rf tmp
    git init

New to git? Here's what's happening:

Go to the directory where you saved the project.

    cd ~/path/to/unity/project/

In this directory, you should see something like the following if you ls:

drwxr-xr-x   4 thunderrabbit  staff  136 Apr  7 16:22 Assets
drwxr-xr-x  20 thunderrabbit  staff  680 Apr  7 16:22 Library
drwxr-xr-x  16 thunderrabbit  staff  544 Apr  7 16:22 ProjectSettings
drwxr-xr-x   4 thunderrabbit  staff  136 Apr  7 16:22 Temp

Next, we're 'cloning' this git repository, primarily because we're interested in the .gitignore file. We put it in the tmp directory because we're not going to keep the repo.

.gitignore is a file that tells git what files to ignore. There are lots of files Unity creates which can be recreated in a trice. There's no reason for them to clutter your repository.

    git clone https://github.com/thunderrabbit/unity3d-starter.git  tmp

Okay copy the .gitignore file to your Unity project.

    cp tmp/.gitignore .

Now create a README.md file for your project. (actually the >> means to append to the file so it won't get clobbered in case it already exists.)

    echo "my great project" >> README.md

Now wipe the tmp directory because we don't need it.

    rm -rf tmp

Now, initialize your git repository.

    git init

Now we'll tell git to remember the initial state of the project.

    git add .

And finally commit the changes:

    git commit -m "First commit in my project wowzers"