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links for 2008-04-27

• Git User’s Manual (for version 1.5.3 or newer)
  A must-read for anyone using git. Git’s appeal really does seem to extend beyond just source-code management; I’d recommend it for writers who want to manage a history of textfiles, for example. Much nicer than subversion, IMO.
  (tags: howto reference @toread subversion git runner_project rails)
• How I Explained REST to My Wife
  As far as I can tell, REST means designing your web applications and services so that you represent concepts as stateful objects that can be manpulated by a limited set of verbs available through HTTP. Or something.
  (tags: REST ruby howto reference articles @toread rails xml)

One benefit — maybe the only benefit — svn has over git is that you will have an external copy of the repository, sort of a built-in backup. You can do things that way with git by using a “bare” repository as a master, but it requires a few extra steps.

Otherwise, +1 git no doubt.

One benefit — maybe the only benefit — svn has over git is that you will have an external copy of the repository, sort of a built-in backup. You can do things that way with git by using a “bare” repository as a master, but it requires a few extra steps.

Otherwise, +1 git no doubt.

Absolutely agreed on the matter of having backup copies of the repository. I do have SVN hosting, and I believe you can check in and out of a SVN repository with git, so that’s something to investigate for certain.

Yeah, git-svn will let you set things up so that when you ‘git push’ to the upstream, it’s actually checking in to a SVN repo — or so sez the documentation; I haven’t actually tried that that yet.