Another distro moves to git for source control...
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Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference
Right after LinuxCon this year was the co-located Linux Plumbers Conference. This is not an official Linux Foundation event, per se, but we work closely with the organizers to help them any way we can. It's a great event for system and kernel developers to attend, and this year was no exception.
Submitted on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 21:14.
Using Git with Vim
Vim and Git can play nicely together..."I recently started using Git for my local revision control. Since I spend about 90% of my coding time inside the Vim editor, I went looking for a plugin that would make Vim play nice with Git. In this article I present two different vim plugins and explore their feature-set via screenshots."My expectations from a git plugin were rather simple." [Read more at OSnews]... [more]
Submitted Community Manager on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 15:06.
GNOME to Migrate to git
GNOME revision control now goes to git...
"The GNOME Release Team would like to announce that git will be the new Version Control System (VCS) for GNOME. In our opinion, the decision reflects the opinion of the majority of our active contributors.
Submitted LWN on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 13:56.
DVCS Follow-Up: Managing the Python Repository
Following my review (parts one, two and three) of different DVCS systems, I was still curious and decided to do a quick test using a 'real' repository. After a while I chose the Python repository since it is reasonably large (about 60k revisions) and the Python team is actually still looking (as far as I know) for possibilities to replace Subversion.
Submitted on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 16:33.
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DVCS Round-up: One System to Rule Them All?--Part 3
In this third article, I will present some benchmark results for the systems I discussed before.
Submitted on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 16:51.
Tagged with Application Development | Bazaar | bzr | darcs | dvcs | git | hg | Linux Foundation LDN Featured Articles | Mercurial | monotone | mtn | performance | revision control | SVK | General | Locally Generated Content
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DVCS Round-Up: One System to Rule Them All?--Part 2
In the first part of this article series, I presented some history concerning the development of distributed revision control systems, and took a closer look at both SVK and monotone. In this sequel, we will take a closer look at the remaining four systems promised to be reviewed, namely darcs, Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial. The latter three are quite popular, being used by Ubuntu (Bazaar), the Linux kernel (Git), and the Mozilla project (Mercurial). Synopsis:... [more]
Submitted on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 17:21.
Tagged with Application Development | Bazaar | bzr | darcs | distributed revision control | git | hg | Linux Foundation LDN Featured Articles | Mercurial | monotone | mtn | SVK | General | Locally Generated Content
Perl 5 Now Uses Git for Version Control
Perl development is now in a single open source repository...
Submitted oreilly on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 15:07.
GitTorrent, The Movie
I'd not heard much about GitTorrent before, but this is a good look at really distributed Git... "Git promises to be a distributed software management tool, where a repository can be distributed. Yet, the mechanisms used to date to actually "distribute", such as rsync, http and ssh, are very much "single path" and centralised.
Submitted Community Manager on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 14:31.
GIT 1.6.0 Released
The latest feature release GIT 1.6.0 is available at the usual places...
Submitted Community Manager on Wed, 08/20/2008 - 08:20.
Tagged with development tools | Digg | git | Git 1.6 | kernel development | General | Languages | The Linux Kernel