By Peter Bell

The Rise of Git for Version Control

Posted At : April 25, 2008 9:48 AM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Subversion
Over the last few weeks, Linus Torvalds latest pet project has really taken off. I've signed up for an account at GitHub, sill haven't got round to getting started or using the Eclipse plugin. Today I got an email informing me that Unfuddle is offering Git.

Their announcement: If you have not yet heard of Git, it is a distributed version control system, originally developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It has grown over the years to serve as the development platform for many other very large and active open source projects. It has grown for a very simple reason: it is excellent.

Effective May 15th, Unfuddle customers will be able to choose between Git and Subversion repositories for their projects. Subversion is not going away, we are just adding Git as an alternative.

Anyone out there played seriously with Git yet? What do you think?

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Subversion for Designers? For Clients?

Posted At : February 27, 2008 9:26 AM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Subversion, Hosting
The combination of svn for source control and Ant for managing your builds is hard to beat, but how do you handle builds that need to include templates being edited by designers or files being uploaded by end users of a cms?

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Stats for SVN

Posted At : February 23, 2007 10:33 AM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Subversion
Alistair Davidson just posted a nice article about StatSVN. Looks like a very cool tool for getting some metrics on your code development.

Would be fun to run it for all the community projects in CF to see who's been doing what. Just thinking out loud and wondering if this could be added to RIAForge?!

Either way, seems like a very cool tool for getting a handle on your SVN statistics.

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Instructions for Getting Started with Subversion on RIAForge using Subclipse

Posted At : October 22, 2006 7:04 PM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Subversion
Just in case anyone else hadn't used svn before but wanted to get started with a RIAForge svn repository, here are some quick instructions. If any of this is wrong, please let me know!

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How do you get started with Subversion on RIAForge?

Posted At : October 22, 2006 6:32 PM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: Subversion, Misc, LightWire
I was following Brian Rinaldi’s great article which worked perfectly for getting started with Subclipse.

I now have access to the LightWire svn repository in Eclipse and can do things like creating and deleting directories. I don’t see any of the branch/trunk/tags directories I’d usually see in a pre-configured project.

Anyone have any idea how to set these up or just in general terms how to use svn on Riaforge? Probably obvious, but I’m a complete svn n00b.

Any help much appreciated as I can’t post the code until I can figure this out!

[update] OK, the book explains how to do this. All seems to make sense. I'll post the short instructions in a bit just in case there is one other person who knows less about svn than me!

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