Dropbox and Git Play Well Together
Code: Dropbox, git, how to, version control
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Chrys Wu asked me my thoughts about how to have easy access to a software project she’s working on so that she can conveniently access them from the several computers she uses regularly. Not all of them can be set up as development machines, so a standard version control system can’t be used alone.
Craftsmanship Tour: Jim Ray
Code: craftsmanship tour, Devise, git, Ruby on Rails, vim
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Last Tuesday I spent the afternoon with Jim Ray at the excellent Hooked coffeeshop in Denver, CO (and then I spent the next several days sick from a bad meal and recovering, so this post got delayed).
One Fine Git Book: Pro Git
Code: book review, git, svn, version control
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As long as I’m reading too much, let me suggest that you can skip the couple dozen blog posts and half-dozen books about Git. Read this one introductory blog post and, if git sounds like a good tool for you, you can read one fine book about Git and be thoroughly informed.
Getting Git
Code: DVCS, git, PeepCode, source control, VCS
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I’ve been curious about git for a few weeks. I’ve heard friends recommend it, a lot of big projects (Linux kernel, Xorg, Rails) have switched to it, and I hadn’t yet learned a distributed version control system. I’ve bounced off the blog posts I’ve come across, they weren’t well-organized or assumed some basic familiarity I didn’t have. The man pages were also kind of intimidating.