Comments on: Montreal On Rails, January Edition

By: jfcouture

jfcouture — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:17:14 +0000

Randal’s talk is good, but I think Linus’ talk is much more entertaining. I think reading a couple tutorial and playing with git helps more than listening to Randal’s. Then you can go back to his talk and complete your understanding of git.

By: Derek Mahar

Derek Mahar — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:36:43 +0000

Don’t forget Randal Schwartz’s Git presentation at Google (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1251251453592758541). I found Schwartz’s presentation much more informative and less antagonistic than Torvalds’. For example, I thought it was a bit excessive for Torvalds to call all CVS, Subversion, and Perforce users “ugly and stupid”.

By: jfcouture

jfcouture — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:18:31 +0000

@Mat: Interesting talk. I’ve heard good things about mercurial. If for some reason git doesn’t float your boat, it’s another option.

@Carl: One thing I forgot to mention about renaming files. Move the file and commit and do other changes to that file in another commit. As we saw in gitk, git detects the similarity between the file when there is a move. If however you changed the file a lot in the same commit as you moved it, git might not pick up the rename.

Thanks for the kind comments!

By: Carl Mercier

Carl Mercier — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:46:03 +0000

You did damn good indeed! I was already convinced but you just reinforced my desire to get rid of SVN asap.

I think the crowd was really sold when you renamed that file

By: Mathieu Martin

Mathieu Martin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:50:13 +0000

Great presentation, JF. Thanks
For those who enjoyed Linus’ video presentation, this one on the Mercurial project might be interesting as well (even if you just plan on using Git):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7724296011317502612