Comments on: Git it is

By: Oh, go on then… at Singletoned

Oh, go on then… at Singletoned — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:37:24 +0000

[...] about half the blogs I read are doing it, why can’t [...]

By: Assaf

Assaf — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:05:52 +0000

The one thing I did use Mercurial successfully for was working solo: keeping track of the changes I made, having a history, backed up daily, with the possibility of moving it (history and all) to central server when the team size grows to N > 1.

By: Aaron H.

Aaron H. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:58:02 +0000

I finally got around to installing Git just before they announced that Rails was moving there. GitHub is absolutely fantastic, but my biggest problem with Git (aside from my complete n00bism) is that the acceptance among anyone other than the hardcore rails group is virtually nil.

When I’m managing a solo project, the need for distributed management is probably overkill. When I’m working with other people, they want SVN or Mercurial. I’m completely open to Git, but it feels like an uphill climb at this point.

As for my bash history, you can tell I was doing a lot of hunting around and tweaking yesterday.

68 cd
62 ls
53 svn
44 fts
42 sc
30 sudo
28 rake
26 exit
19 ftdssh
19 cap

By: Aristotle

Aristotle — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:36:28 +0000

Assaf: you may be interested in Easy Git. Nic: git has aliases of its own, which you can define them per-user, per-system or per-repository – see git help config.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:36:57 +0000

Yeah its a great example of a completion script – sets up everything it needs itself. I have a bunch of completion stuff for rake, sake, capistrano, gem, etc. Might refactor them so you just call a single script for each, and it does all the bash completion calls etc.

Anyway,we’re now off topic :)

By: Assaf

Assaf — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:29:59 +0000

Completion!

I didn’t know it exits. Turns out I need to port install git-core +svn+bash_completion first to get it working.

I don’t have to source it explicitly, my bash file takes care of it with:

if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /opt/local/etc/bash_completion
fi

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:26:13 +0000

Which gives a history dump of:

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
73 gst
48 gca
43 cd
27 gp
26 cap
23 ga
20 gdc
20 et
18 console
17 git

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:24:59 +0000

Something for your .bashrc:

source ~/bin/git-completion.sh

alias gst=’git status’
alias gl=’git pull’
alias gp=’git push’
alias gd=’git diff | mate’
alias ga=’git add’
alias gc=’git commit -v’
alias gca=’git commit -v -a’
alias gb=’git branch’
alias gba=’git branch -a’
alias gco=’git checkout’
alias gdc=’git-svn dcommit’
alias gk=’gitk –all &’

Let’s see if we cannot get ‘git’ out of your history in the next 24 hours :)