Version Control

Version Control is the management of versions of source documents, such as computer code. Also known as Source Code Management (SCM)

Git

Git is a full-featured open-source distributed version control system written by Linux Torvalds and others.

Tips

Setting up a Remote for SSH

(I always forget this command...) After setting up a bare repository on somehost.somedomain, then, on your dev. machine:

% git remote add origin bob@somehost.somedomain:path_to_git_repositories/project

Color vs. ESC issues with Ubuntu

Actually, a problem with the default pager settings, according to Mac OS X color showing ESC[whatever for git-diff colors (and more).

Fix: change GIT_PAGER from more to less. Also some environment variables for less: LESS="-erX" (in /etc/profile, or wherever).

"Go ahead - just do it"

This guy/gal wrote on stackoverflow.com:

Why don't you just try it. You can always do a hard reset if it doesn't work. Just make a temporary
branch at the old spot. Go on. Try it. You know you want to... – Cupcake May 30 at 2:54

Great advice - helped me change my ways...

(hint:

git checkout -b new_branch

Git References

• git
• Git - includes Pro Git Book
• Top 10 Git Tutorials for Beginners at SixRevisions.com
• Git_(software) at Wikipedia
• Gitosis and Gitweb – Part 1 – Setup
• Using Git for Samba Development
• Git Magic tutorial
• SparkleShare - Git based file-sharing (also SparkleShare at Wikipedia)
• A successful git branching model
• git source code
• How Tridge reverse engineered BitKeeper at LWN.net
• BFG Repo-Cleaner - an alternative to git-filter-branch

Subversion

Subversion is a centralized version control system which is also open-source

• Subversion (aka SVN) from Apache Foundation
• RabbitVCS Version Control GUI for Linux
• Version Control with Subversion an O'Reilly book available for free online
• Apache Subversion at Wikipedia
• TortoiseSVN - Windows GUI client (TortoiseSVN home) (TortoiseSVN at Wikipedia)

External links

• Revision control at Wikipedia