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Git

I managed to find some time to watch this today: Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Git is a distributed SCM system – Linus wrote it in two weeks. It seems like it’s getting some traction among some of the Rails crowd. Mozilla seriously considered adopting it for Mozilla 2 work but the lack of a finished win32 client was a show stopper (although progress seems to have been made there).

There’s nothing like Tortoise for it (yet) – but it’s still pretty new – it’s been used by the kernel developers for the last two years – but it seems like it’s only in the last few months that it’s got easy enough for newbies to pickup.

Distributed SCM’s really take some brain twisting to get your head around – and Git in particular breaks with most conventions that people used to traditional centralised, file based systems are used to. Linus says that he thinks the only reason he’s been able to build git was because he didn’t have brain rot caused by exposure to traditional scm tools.

Interesting. Linus certainly has a…eh…”unique”…way of talking. Blunt might be another word you could use.

We regularly have merge problems with Svn as we are all working on our branches. I initially thought these would eventually go away through increased user experience, but I’m now at the point that it shouldn’t be this hard. Git certainly looks like it is worth investigating.

BTW there does seem to be a Git Gui for windows, but you’re right in that there’s nothing quite as integrated as Tortoise.