This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
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For those times when you don’t know what to put in your commit message. “oops, forgot to add the file”
Lotsa handy tips for better wrangling ‘git’. There’s so much cleverness under the covers, you need something like this to keep bringing the best bits to light.
Spent a chunk of today reading up on and playing around with git today. This summary seems pretty accurate from my initial pokings.
Judging by the geeks I follow, I’m suspecting that learning Git should be high on my TODO list. This resource looks like a good place to start.
Bookmarking this, since work has just started creating an officially sanctioned SVN repository, so it’s clearly time for me to start using a more esoteric source-control package.
Tool for syncing source control over multiple systems — seems ideal for those times that “corporate” insist on a standard version control package that everyone hates, and you want to use SVN/git/whatever.
I’m seeing increased chatter about the source control package “git” at the moment. I should investigate it at some point.
Handy guide to understand the purpose of branching in source control, and examples of how it works in Subversion.
Wow — I didn’t realise that Subversion allowed you to splice together revisions from multiple repositories. That could come in very handy.
To be investigated… Intriguing source-control browser (and searcher). I’ll have to give this a go at work tomorrow.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.