Learning Git without getting your SVN feet wet
Our team has been migrating towards using Git as our primary SCM. 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…
So, for those of us who want to use it day-to-day, we’re using git-svn.
Andy Delcambre 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, Git SVN workflow to get up to speed.
Also, if you’re on OSX and using Git… check out Justin Palmer’s new project, GitNub, which describes itself as, “a Gitk-like application written in RubyCocoa that looks like it belongs on a Mac.” This looks promising. :-)
Launch your own RubyURL
A few weeks ago, I moved RubyURL from subversion to git. During that process, I decided to use my invite to GitHub and have decided to go ahead and open up the source code.
It’s currently a whopping 92 LOC with a 1:2.5 code to spec ratio. (I had a goal to keep is below 100 LOC)
- RubyURL on GitHub: http://github.com/robbyrussell/rubyurl
- Public Clone URL: git://github.com/robbyrussell/rubyurl.git
Feel free to grab it and help contribute. This has served almost 14 million redirects since August 2007 and is running on a Rails Boxcar.
To grab it with git.. run: git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/rubyurl.git.
Feel free to submit tickets to the Rubyurl ticket system.
Enjoy!
UPDATE Ryan McGeary was kind enough to be the first person to help track down a bug and submit patches. :-)
