Today

[andrewducker]

Has been spent largely reading about Git. Which we're not likely to get in work, but I felt the urge to be better educated about how it worked - particularly how it works when multiple people are checking in to a central repository. Which it handled perfectly well, despite none of the discussions I found really talking about that workflow. I set up a repository on GitHub, grabbed a copy of Cygwin and of Git, checked in a single file and then got momentsmusicaux to make a change to it and push that back to the master. So that all works.

Tomorrow I shall spend some time playing with the Visual Studio tools for it, because while I'm happy to arse around with command lines in my spare time, that just isn't going to cut it in work.

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

There's GitX which is lovely, but sadly only on OS X.

[andrewducker]

Not a lot of use to us then :->

There is a TortoiseGit for windows though - and also a Visual Studio plugin, which I shall play with tomorrow. Because I'd much rather have it built into the IDE than have to faff around with multiple toolsets.

[zz]

is there an explanation of why git is good, or even understandable, other than "it's distributed" and "linus made it"?

[skington.livejournal.com]

In a nutshell: branches are much, much easier than Subversion (the same goes for Mercurial).

[andrewducker]

Being distributed has some advantages. But whether it's better than other distributed VCS is a question I'm not qualified to answer.

[skington.livejournal.com]

If you have any further copious spare time, check out Mercurial as well. It's also a distributed version control system, but one that's simpler and closer to Subversion (at least according to random things I've googled); also, Joel Spolsky likes it.

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Although I've never tried git, I second the recommendation for Mercurial!

[andrewducker]

I'll have a play if I have the spare time. It actually looks like we'll be getting Rational Team Concert at work, because it links in with defect tracking and workflow. But having heard a lot of discussion about Git I thought I should try it out so I could at least take part in discussions about it.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

You sir, are a great big geek. :-) As you know, I have always been rather envious of you and your like. The chances of me doing ANYTHING development related in my own time are zero. The last time I did must have been before I started Uni. It's actually a bit of a b*gger to have talent without interest

[andrewducker]

Yup, I'm very lucky that they pay me for my hobby.