ZOMG! Something good came of Linux? I'll eat a Yankees hat...
Yes folks it's true, something that Finnish Fucktard created has actually impressed me. The lead developer at the new job was shopping around for a new version control system (because CVS Sucks) and he wanted to try GIT because of its offline capabilities (commit locally when you're not connected to das interweb, then push it up when you are). For the record, that's something SVN doesn't do either.
So I set out on a mini crusade to learn about and deploy GIT for him - Stumbling along the way into a bit of Python called gitosis which allows you to manage GIT repositories & access using SSH keys (w00t?).
I played around, deployed it, ran a wonderful CVS-to-GIT script, and found GIT + gitosis to be quite good. I'm even considering moving some of my stuff into GIT.
GIT also has one major advantage over CVS/SVN in my mind -- The distributed local copy is a full repository - therefore each workstation with a working directory is a de-facto backup of the master repository (as of whenever a pull/update was last done). Should a meteor strike the GIT master server all one would need to do is put one of these repositories on another box somewhere and development can continue relatively uninterrupted (minus the gitosis configuration -- I haven't quite worked that out yet).
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ZOMG! Something good came of Linux? I'll eat a Yankees hat...
Yes folks it's true, something that Finnish Fucktard created has actually impressed me. The lead developer at the new job was shopping around for a new version control system (because CVS Sucks) and he wanted to try GIT because of its offline capabilities (commit locally when you're not connected to das interweb, then push it up when you are). For the record, that's something SVN doesn't do either.
So I set out on a mini crusade to learn about and deploy GIT for him - Stumbling along the way into a bit of Python called gitosis which allows you to manage GIT repositories & access using SSH keys (w00t?).
I played around, deployed it, ran a wonderful CVS-to-GIT script, and found GIT + gitosis to be quite good. I'm even considering moving some of my stuff into GIT.
GIT also has one major advantage over CVS/SVN in my mind -- The distributed local copy is a full repository - therefore each workstation with a working directory is a de-facto backup of the master repository (as of whenever a pull/update was last done). Should a meteor strike the GIT master server all one would need to do is put one of these repositories on another box somewhere and development can continue relatively uninterrupted (minus the gitosis configuration -- I haven't quite worked that out yet).
Continue reading "You little git!"