"...We are focusing on providing the infrastructure Gentoo needs to move to a more distributed, collaborative model. This includes a git-based Portage tree as well as the Metro build engine..."
Read more »Emacs World Domination for the Wrong Reasons
RMS: « ...I am sure it IS effective for convincing people to use [Emacs] when that is more convenient. I want to convince people to insist on freedom even when it is inconvenient..." »
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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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Git 1.6.0 Released, New Improvements
Michael Larabel: «Git, the revision control system used by the Linux kernel, X.Org, and numerous other free software projects (including our very own Phoronix Test Suite at Phorogit), has reached a new important milestone. Git 1.6.0 has been released with a number of changes since the earlier Git 1.5.6 release...»
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HOWTO to setup Stumpwm for a fully Lispy environment (2008-08-07)
"... thought I would throw this out there as I have spent some time recently getting this working. I had used the stumpwm binary built with the configure && make dance, but it does not run swank in the background so the fabulous facility of running slime-connect and hacking the live window manager was not available. That and having read about clbuild I wanted to get it working.
Read more »On the savannah, where the gnu roam...
"There are many services that will host your project's source code, mailing lists and bug trackers. While very few of these services charge for their services, most of them are built on proprietary software. Worse, some of them have started adding adverts for proprietary software in their mailing lists, or refusing projects with certain free software licenses [...] So, what's the alternative?
Read more »Using git to stitch together a broken subversion repository
"I have recently learned git for version control, having used Subversion for four years and CVS for four years prior to that. It has a lot of nice features and I thought of a good application: restoration of lost history on a Subversion repository..." --
* To understand git read this completely => http://www.newartisans.com/blog_assets/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
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GitCasts: Video Tutorials for Using Git
Git is a free and open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency. Scott Chacon started GitCasts to help teach people what Git is and how to use it.
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Learning and Mastering Ruby on Rails on GNU/Linux and chosing Emacs, the perfect IDE
Much thanks to Phil Hagelberg for its technomancy.git project. You can get it from its git repo and study the code...
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Using Git as a versioned data store in Python
"Git has sometimes been described as a versioning file-system which happens to support the underlying notions of version control. And while most people do simply use Git as a version control system, it remains true that it can be used for other tasks as well.
Read more »gitweb + apache + gentoo
"This is meant as a quick tutorial to get gitweb up and running on gentoo with apache as the web server..."
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Git from the bottom up
"In my pursuit to understand Git, it’s been helpful for me to understand it from the bottom up — rather than look at it only in terms of its high-level commands. And since Git is so beautifully simple when viewed this way, I thought others might be interested to read what I’ve found, and perhaps avoid the pain I went through finding it..."
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Diving into Git
"This week I decided to convert my Ledger repository over to Git. Previously I’d been using Subversion for about 4 years, and CVS for 1 year before that. There was a brief flirt with Darcs, and Mercurial, but neither ever attracted me enough to convert the repository officially..."
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Choosing a Distributed Version Control System
RMS: "...Linux isn't a GNU package. If it were a GNU package, I would write to its maintainers to suggest using Bzr." :-)
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