Archive for June, 2008

The GitHub

Ok, I hinted that I would do a more thorough review of GitHub, the new and easy-to-use git repository hosting site. Although I’m still no power-user I’ve come to know the features that make GitHub worth using and so far unique. The “Fork” feature is probably the most important one. Instead of just cloning a [...]

SVN is not a content-tracker

jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn add git-talk.pdf A (bin) git-talk.pdf jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn commit -m ‘First file’ Adding (bin) git-talk.pdf Transmitting file data . Committed revision 1. jojo@host:~/svn/test$ du -sh ../test-repo 6.5M ../test-repo jojo@host:~/svn/test$ cp git-talk.pdf git-talk2.pdf jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn add git-talk2.pdf A (bin) git-talk2.pdf jojo@host:~/svn/test$ svn commit -m ‘Second file’ Adding (bin) git-talk2.pdf Transmitting file data . Committed revision [...]

bottom-up git documentation

As you can imagine I have been using git some more since the last post about it (and I’ve even been giving GitHub some more thorough investigation, but I’ll be posting about that later). Back then I already understood most of it (definetely enough to work with it), but just recently I got the feeling [...]