A tutorial which explains the concepts of git and the basic commands for a beginner.
Read more »In praise of git’s index
«I still run into people lambasting git for the concept of the index from time to time. It seems strange and superfluous to users of other VCSs – like a speed bump that serves no purpose. Why not just commit the changes in the working copy? This perception is understandable; when I first heard of git, back as a Subversion user, I was one of these people. How times and minds change.
Read more »Bazaar 2.0.0: interview with Martin Pool
"The Bazaar project released their version 2.0.0 this week. I spoke to Martin Pool, the project’s lead, about the release and Bazaar generally..."
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Bazaar 2.0.0 released
"The Bazaar version control system development team is happy to announce availability of bzr 2.0.0 [...] Bazaar is free software (GNU GPL 2+), a part of the GNU project, and supported by Canonical Ltd."
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darcs 2.3.1 released
"Dear Darcs users, The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of a new stable version of darcs, 2.3.1 ..."
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Darcs Joins Software Freedom Conservancy
"Today, the Software Freedom Conservancy welcome the Darcs project as its newest member. Darcs joins 15 other Conservancy members, who receive the benefit of aggregated non-profit status available to all Conservancy member projects..."
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One DVCM to rule them all (follow up)
There were some comments in my original story about the performance of some DVCMs where I was told that bazaar degrades pretty much when you have thousands upon thousands of revisions and that the repositories could be packed. I decided to follow suit and see where git and bzr would stand having some thousands of revisions in them.
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The Tridgell Effect
"...The Tridgell effect is what happens in the development community as the result of developers who are motivated by primarily by freedom. It might be summarized by the phrase: ..."
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Free Software: Perl 5 source repository now hosted in git
"Perl 5's source code is no longer locked into the odious proprietary Perforce repository where it's been hosted for years. It's now hosted in the git distributed version control system. This is a huge win..."
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GitTorrent, The Movie
"The GitTorrent Protocol (GTP) is a protocol for collaborative git repository distribution across the Internet.
Read more »rubyconf the eighth
"I'm back in Seattle after an excellent RubyConf in Orlando, FL. These events are always a treat, and this year's was no exception. Last year the dominant theme was alternate implementations, and this time around it has become an ingrained assumption rather than something that needed to be stated.
Read more »Announcing bzr 1.9
"I'm happy to announce the release of bzr 1.9 [...] bzr 1.9 is now available from http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download as a source tarball ..."
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Getting it on with Git - Part 1
"When I first heard about Git a few months ago the first thing that popped in my mind was: "Why the hell would I ever want to learn a new version control system?" Subversion works perfectly fine, doesn't it? I resisted at first, but after a few weeks I came around and decided to take Git for a test drive. This is what I discovered: ..."
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Git User's Survey 2008 Begins
"Two weeks after the major release of Git version 1.6.0, the Git community started a survey containing 60 questions that can help to understand the users' needs, behavior, and what they like and dislike about Git..." -- (via Savannah mailing-list)
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Bazaar 1.6 released!
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