The Thing About Git —
It’s as though every other version control system I’ve ever used was created by people who were really into version control and Git was created by people who were really into hacking.
tomayko.com
05:16
GitHub: My Kind of Social Software —
Fork me!
tomayko.com
12:17
Bazaar Project Templates —
Cheap branches make for new uses.
tomayko.com
14:39
In praise of git’s index —
Aristotle explains how he uses git’s index and how it makes git unique among VCSs. I’ve raved about git’s index before in The Thing About Git. It’s great.
plasmasturm.org
15:41
Git Commits That Need to be Pushed —
Justin French: alias push?='git cherry -v origin' — beautiful.
justinfrench.com
16:25
Git Management KernelTrap Thread —
Interesting thread wherein Linus describes the need for various types of Git workflows for leaf developers vs. maintainers. Lot’s of talk about the pros and cons of rebasing in different situations.
kerneltrap.org
12:14
My Git Workflow —
Oliver Steele details his (and others’s) Git workflow with a bunch of illustrative graphs, emphasizing one of my favorite aspects of Git: There’s More Than One Way To Do It.
osteele.com
06:05
commit-patch —
A nice solution to “The Tangled Working Copy Problem” for VCS’s that don’t allow you to pluck out portions of a working copy to commit. Allows editing the diff that’s about to be committed.
porkrind.org
08:05
Git HOWTO Index —
There are some great tips for owning your local workflow in here.
kernel.org
06:23
The Differences Between Mercurial and Git —
I can’t say whether this is an accurate description of hg but he nails a lot of the things that makes git interesting, IMO.
rockstarprogrammer.org
06:15
What a DVCS gets you (maybe) —
Bill de hÓra gives some reasons for using a distributed VCS even when the downstream repo is non-distributed.
dehora.net
07:57
Git for Computer Scientists —
Okay, I’ve read about five of these articles purporting to explain Git’s internal conceptual framework. This was the first that really made things click in any significant way.
eagain.net
07:53
bzr2git —
A quick script I threw together to convert simple bzr branches to git repos. Requires git, bzr, and rsync.
pastie.caboo.se
17:25
This is where you send new features into the ghetto so that they can 'battle it out' ... —
“The last features standing get re-integrated into another branch known as the ‘trailer park’ to try to find a new life for themselves. Note that ghetto is frequently called ‘trunk’, and the trailer park something like ‘releng’”
utsl.gen.nz
05:48
GitHub —
Seriously interesting web based git browser and collaboration tool from the folks at Engine Yard. If anyone has a spare invite laying around, hook me up: rtomayko@gmail.com. I have a bunch of stuff sitting in bzr repos that I’d like to flip over to git.
github.com
07:20
Git User's Manual —
Finally: “this manual is designed to be readable by someone with basic UNIX command-line skills, but no previous knowledge of git.”
kernel.org
03:06
Wanted: Git Cheat Sheet for Collaboration —
There’s some good questions here. I’ve been running into a few of the same issues while experimenting with moving some of my bzr projects to git. Can one of the git pros out there have a look?
rockstarprogrammer.org
20:22
Why I chose git —
Wherein Aristotle convinces me to seriously consider moving my experimental bzr projects to git. I’ve seen the content vs. file tracking argument before but never really understood what the actual impact of this difference was.
plasmasturm.org
04:47
Bazaar goes 1.0! —
New, faster repo format and a bunch of other tweaks make in during the RC process.
lists.ubuntu.com
03:27
A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds [wincent.com] —
“…. But after closely studying Git I’m a little bit awestruck; Torvalds is a frickin' genius, a true visionary, and somehow managed to just "get it” and instantly, in a flash of insight, come up with “the solution” for version control."
wincent.com
13:50
Please drop SVN —
Oh wow. The concept of logical patches is something I never considered before. Darcs has a “record” command that let’s you split multiple changes to a single file (or files I assume) into logical changes (“hunks”).
iovene.com
05:10
3 pillars [dehora.net] —
“the version control system is a first order effect on software, along with two others – the build system and the bugtracker. Those choices impact absolutely everything else. Things like IDEs, by comparison, don’t matter at all.”
dehora.net
10:42
Bill de hÓra: Mercurial, Part I —
Nice look at one of the better distributed version control clients picking up mindshare.
dehora.net
06:22