2 Blog Entries tagged: git
I Can Haz Hardcore Forking Action
Recently myself and a few co-workers (@davemerwin, @bradpitcher, Percy and Nate) got together for what we called, "Django Night: 3 Hours 1 App", in which we attempted to build a website from start to finish in 3 hours using Django. We also decided to learn and use Git and GitHub as our decentralized source code management. This is more about the experiences learned from Git than the Django project.
What is Git
Git is a distributed revision control / software configuration management project created by Linus Torvalds, initially for the Linux kernel development. For more from Linus himself, this is an ...
Django Development Using git
A little background
Not very long ago I was fortunate to attend a talk given by Randall Schwartz on git, the distributed source control system developed by Linus Torvalds and the rest of the Linux kernel developers. After that talk and after watching the Google Video talk given by Linus I decided to dip my toe into the waters by installing git on my Mac and writing a few patches for Django.
Installation on a Mac using MacPorts
With MacPorts installed, installing a recent version of the svn variant of git is simple enough:
> sudo port install git-core +svn
Test ...