RE: Version control
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 23:20:46 -0400
Git uses ssh if you want to in fact I think it is default ssh. I use
nothing but ssh keys with my repo's. You can have open repositories though.
OK as for a book "Git Book" is what I started with it is at:
http://book.git-scm.com/1_welcome_to_git.html
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From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Mehler
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:51 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Version control
Hello,
Thank you everyone for your replies. I'm liking GIT as I'm on windows
at the moment, but don't always have this box, and my server is a
linux server which I do like the idea of being able to pull my code.
First question, books on git, can you recommend some good ones?
Secondly, network communication say between my laptop and my server on
the internet, how is that handled? Is it encrypted or clear?
Just thought of another one, do either git or subversion integrate
with any development tools/environments?
Any more suggestions please keep them coming.
Thanks.
Dave.
On 8/5/11, Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use it for work, home business, and home projects. I will go down the
> list of the three I have used most of all and the two I suggest and why.
> People need not argue I am just stating my opinions.
>
> First I started back in 90 with CVS and it was the hot and going thing. I
> would not suggest using it because it's a nightmare to reconfigure
projects,
> delete branches, handle tag tagging and many other problems. It is
however
> well documented and supported on all platforms it just is a nightmare and
> not as powerful as the next two.
>
> The one I used up till last year on work and home business projects is
> Subversion. It has a really nice windows, Gui and command line and linux
> command line interface. It is very quick to set up. The tags and
branching
> is pretty simple but limited when you start diverging and deleting a lot.
> Of course there are some power commands to take care of that like you can
> export a clean tree and start over but there are still power issues with
> this. I would though suggest subversion if you're not getting into
programs
> that are multi binary multi repo. With that said we used subversion for
a
> very difficult project including OE Linux, and entire software stack and
> more shared libraries than I can number and it was relatively easy to
> administrate and use. The problems came in when we cleaned up the trees
you
> always end up with these empty branches because you're not supposed to
> delete directories so you can return to older branches that had them. Also
> when we needed to switch from one branch of OE Linux to another it was a
> nightmare. Of course there are ways to deal with this but if you're
going
> to get that technical with Subversion (SVN) you might as well go with my
> last choice and the one I use for all my projects, my work, home business
> game server, and many other things like wiki's. I much rather write text
> files and use it than edit web pages.
> So the last and greatest tool is git it is also hard to learn. It has
> windows gui and command line and Linux command lines. It also is the
basis
> of repo which is what they use for the android repositories. You have so
> many tools in git because it follows the old Linux one command for one
> operation. It allows people to extend it which I am sure the others do but
> this is just much cleaner. You don't run into the visual empty directories
> like you do in cvs and you can delete stuff like nobody's business and
never
> know it's still hanging around. You never really change the base
repository
> you only have an alias to it well a copy per say the copy is kind of fussy
> because you can switch between different branches in seconds and stash
temp
> branches with ease. This system is not for the faint of heart but once
you
> learn to use it you will find yourself doing things that I am sure it was
> not originally designed to do. For example I have a backup git repo that
I
> can push to my Linux server on my windows box. I just throw files in it
all
> day long and at the end of the day I do something like git push $(date -s)
> and wam I have a handy quick daily backup. The neat thing is even if I
> delete a file I can dig through my commits and find them. Sure it takes
up
> a lot of space on my server but you know what? I have 2 tera bites of
data
> think I care? You can easily change between one named branch or tag if
your
> thinking svn or cvs you can stash stuff you just wrote to test something
and
> it will return you to the original branch. I could go on for hours about
> all the little toys you have from being able to revert to 2 commits back
but
> not without the 14 and 10th com mit. It just has really powerful
> commands. It was originally written for the Linux OS because the others
> didn't allow for 10 people to have their own copy of a repo and for each
> person to be able to pull changes from each other without messing up the
> master branch. You can push remote branches where others can check it
out.
> When I am working on Android I can actually switch from googles branch to
> Cyanagan, to ours in about 3 seconds and pull files from each and diff our
> files with either. Then trash everything I don't want and get it back
> later. So anyway I whole hardily say learn git there are books out there
> and as you get started its easy enough to get a repo started but you won't
> find the power for weeks.
>
> Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Mehler
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:12 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Version control
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using a windows machine and am wanting to start some programming
> projects mostly for personal use. I have been reading up on version
> control and can see it's use. I am wondering if anyone onlist uses it,
> if so what, and how you like it?
>
> Thanks.
> Dave.
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