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August 17, 2010
I am drinking kool-aid

This is a good video for anybody who does software development:

Some people I know don't like Linus when they've watch this, but I think he's awesome, even though he called me stupid and ugly. He was right, I guess.

Using SVN was a great thing for me, as I'd constantly diff my work to make sure it was what I wanted. It also (obviously) enables collaboration.

Git, however, is utterly awesome, an order of magnitude more useful. Branches in SVN were a huge pain, we rarely used them. In Git, you can actually use them, effectively and without having to deal with nonsense, it is fantastic.

It is fast, efficient at storing data, easy to synchronize and automate backups, I love it.

The only downside I see is that TortoiseSVN doesn't exist for it, TortoiseGit is getting there, from what I hear, but I've just been using the command line thus far.

Anyway, I'm just giddy with it. I would say life changing, but that would be overdramatic. It is work-changing, I guess.






4 Comments:
Posted by Tale on Fri 20 Aug 2010 at 07:13 from 77.168.115.x
I haven't had time to watch the whole video yet, but the part I have seen thusfar was interesting (and good fun).

I have watched this other Git video featuring Randal Schwartz yesterday, which is more of a practical (but less fun) introduction to Git:

youtube.com/watch?v=8dhZ9BXQgc4


Posted by Jesse Donat on Mon 23 Aug 2010 at 08:25 from 173.8.119.x
Watched the video last night - seems very introductory - but I have always hated SVN - git on the other hand is awesome. Personally, I prefer and command line approach than something that integrates heavily into explorer.


Posted by Chad Pry on Sat 30 Oct 2010 at 18:22 from 99.133.156.x
Great to hear you are using git, although I'm surprised to hear you've been on svn all this time! Also, While I appreciate the desire to have a UI app, I'd say the command line is better than any UI for git. It is better on another order of magnitude, or maybe shell has become my comfort zone. ;)

Are you using github yet?


Posted by - on Thu 30 Dec 2010 at 09:25 from 155.69.57.x
TortoiseHg exists for Mercurial and is quite nice, but you're right, TortoiseGit is sort of shitty right now...


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