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windows suffer from stockholm syndrome.
— ikono, armagetron player

While searching for blogs that feature articles about GIT, I stumbled over a few nice ones like Ted Tsos article about GIT vs HG as well as Johns Goerzen article. Furthermore Mika wrote a nice git and svn tutorial. The people from dopefreshtightblog have written a small pdf about git (in german). Meanwhile Jeremy keepts [...]

People reading my blog (I don’t know if there are some. If you read my blog, just drop me a comment!) must think that I’m somewhat a GIT zealot. Well I like git sometimes and sometimes I hate it by passion. Why I hate it:

/> git
zsh: do you wish to see all 141 possibilities (47 [...]

A lot of people have to deal with CVS in their companies or in Open Source projects. Therefore they all know an annoying problem:
You are working on a huge change, introducing a complete new authentification mechanism. Therefore you have to touch a lot of classes. In the meantime, other developers have to change also some [...]

CVS is probably the most used version control system. A lot of companies and open source projects use it daily. In fact most of the companies prefer to switch over to subversion instead of an decentralized VCS like GIT or mercurial.
Why? They often argue in that way

I don’t want to have all the logs/revision on [...]

Sometime, strange things happend that are kind of obvious if you look into deep at the problem.

Just take a look at the following code:

$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir -p foo/bar/
$ touch foo/bar/test
$ touch foo/test
$ for ((i=0;$i