Using a decentralized version control system (DVCS) like Mercurial (hg) or Git as a client for Subversion is very common. With the unique features of a DVCS a developer can have both the features of offline development and local branching while still being able to push to a subversion server. This approach is often used [...]
For those of you, who didn’t notice so far, in the last 6 month we worked on a more userfriendly and accessible page than the current mercurial website. Three weeks ago we launched hg-scm.org which is quite similar to git-scm.org. I hope you enjoy it
Interacting between git and subversion is quite common. The git command git-svn can be used to import existing subversion repositories into git and commit synchronize commits between two repositories. While importing a subversion repository into git is comming, importing an git repository into subversion is quite unusual. There are various tools to do so, but [...]
I remember the days when I started learning Git about two years ago. I crawled through all the available commands and read the man pages what they are for and I remember when I stumbled over rebase and stuck. After figuring out what it actually does, I start loving it, but didn’t understand it’s dangerousness [...]
A few month ago, Matt Mackall the maintainer of the Mercurial version control system, came up with the idea to implement so called bookmarks for mercurial.
Again, git vs. SVN. Last time, it was big win for git. And guess what, git will strike again.
I mean nobody is perfect (expect Linus, but there is just one – as he mentioned once), so we actually fail writing bugfree code. Therefore we end up sitting in front of a huge code base trying [...]
I used git for the last 6 month in a big project. The project itself is not maintained
in git but in subversion as this is what developers know and what project leaders like to use
for several reasons.
In fact it’s not a bad idea to actually use subversion as version control system, particularly if
the developer [...]
Approaching the 5.3 release of PHP, a lot of features were introduced
and discussed at the internals mailinglist. This includes closures, traits
and various other patches. Some of these patches are on hold and not yet
applied. Therefore only a few people can take a look at the new features. Particularly because they scare patching PHP themselves or [...]
Okay, there wasn’t a blog entry on git for quite a while, but well, here it is. This time about the incredible INDEX mechanism and git add -i.
For quiet some while, I play around with distributed version control systems. Particularly GIT. To think outside of the box I, sometimes try out mercurial. Mercurial works like a charm, only the lack of using a pager to display logs or other long output annoyed me. For sure I could define an alias or always [...]