April 23, 2008

Git Outta Here!

I took some time last night and played with Git for a bit. Git is a distributed version control system written by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel. Git recently gained a bit of notoriety because some big projects (in addition to the kernel) like Ruby on Rails are switching to Git. The whole concept of distributed version control is pretty neat: every developer has a complete copy of the entire history of a project, can make changes on his own local repository (with full history, etc. Read more