Robby on Rails: Learning Git without getting your SVN feet wetthoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect tag:www.robbyonrails.com,2005:TypoTypo2008-03-11T02:00:42-04:00Robby Russellurn:uuid:00328f04-0b81-4c29-9915-1f4e729ae3172008-03-11T01:59:00-04:002008-03-11T02:00:42-04:00Learning Git without getting your SVN feet wet<p>Our team has been migrating towards using <a href="http://git.or.cz/">Git</a> as our primary <span class="caps">SCM</span>. We have way too many Subversion-based projects and repositories to just do a clean switch over and not everybody on the team has had time to start playing with it. Baby-steps…</p>
<p>So, for those of us who want to use it day-to-day, we’re using <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html">git-svn</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://andy.delcambre.com/">Andy Delcambre</a> has posted the first in a series of blog articles to help you pick up on using Git on Subversion-based projects. Check out his article, <a href="http://andy.delcambre.com/2008/3/4/git-svn-workflow">Git <span class="caps">SVN</span> workflow</a> to get up to speed.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re on <span class="caps">OSX</span> and using Git… check out <a href="http://alternateidea.com">Justin Palmer’s</a> new project, <a href="http://github.com/Caged/gitnub/wikis/home">GitNub</a>, which describes itself as, “a Gitk-like application written in RubyCocoa that looks like it belongs on a Mac.” This looks promising. :-)</p><p>Our team has been migrating towards using <a href="http://git.or.cz/">Git</a> as our primary <span class="caps">SCM</span>. We have way too many Subversion-based projects and repositories to just do a clean switch over and not everybody on the team has had time to start playing with it. Baby-steps…</p>
<p>So, for those of us who want to use it day-to-day, we’re using <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html">git-svn</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://andy.delcambre.com/">Andy Delcambre</a> has posted the first in a series of blog articles to help you pick up on using Git on Subversion-based projects. Check out his article, <a href="http://andy.delcambre.com/2008/3/4/git-svn-workflow">Git <span class="caps">SVN</span> workflow</a> to get up to speed.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re on <span class="caps">OSX</span> and using Git… check out <a href="http://alternateidea.com">Justin Palmer’s</a> new project, <a href="http://github.com/Caged/gitnub/wikis/home">GitNub</a>, which describes itself as, “a Gitk-like application written in RubyCocoa that looks like it belongs on a Mac.” This looks promising. :-)</p>