Git

ACTIVE TECHNOLOGY

• Status: Active
• Category: Source Code Management
• Platform: Unix, Windows, MacOS, Multiple
• Current Version: 1.7.4
• Maturity: High
• Licensing: GNU General Public License 2

Git is a good code management platform. For most users, consider Getting Started with Git

• Git Features
• Git History
  • Git Versions
• Git Usage
• Git Architecture
  • Git Performance
  • Git Scalability
• Git Training
• Git Tools

Git Bash is especially useful for Windows users that need unix functionality. A very useful reference manual - http://gitref.org/remotes/

Git Server Installation

cd /usr/local/
wget -c http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.3.3.tar.bz2
tar -jxf ../src/git-1.7.3.3.tar.bz2
cd git-1.7.3.3/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ --without-python
make -j4
make install

Git Performance

The internals of Git object storage is file-based. See Git Objects So the base performance of the repository is proportional to the speed of file access.

• Performance begins to suffer > 10GB repository.
• Add Ramdisk
• Split codebase.

Git Comparisons

Mercurial is really the only direct competitor.

• Git vs Mercurial
  • http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Git_vs_Mercurial
• Git vs SVN

Links

• http://git-scm.com/ (Source)
• http://gitready.com/ (training)
• http://book.git-scm.com/3_basic_branching_and_merging.html
• http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/
• http://wiki.minix3.org/en/DevelopersGuide/UsingGit
• Gitorious
  • A good code management platform
  • http://cjohansen.no/en/ruby/setting_up_gitorious_on_your_own_server

• Git Dreamhost Installation
  • http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Git#Setup_One:_For_the_Impatient

Licensing

Git is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

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