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Some quick git tips

As I’ve been git-ifying some stuff around here, I’ve run into a few tips that might be useful for other git beginners. The first is to setup some global options, some of which are nice for folks coming from Subversion. Having a global ignore file is useful. Mine has the following contents: *~ *.orig *.rej [...]

rsec and AIDE+gpg now on github

Ok, so the last of my git-related topics today (I need to get back to washing windows, sadly). I’ve pulled out AIDE+gpg and rsec from the Annvix tools subversion repository and they are now on github: AIDE+gpg on github rsec on github The next step, maybe for around Christmas, is to turn these into Fedora [...]

Dissecting part of a subversion repo to git

Well, that was pretty easy to figure out. As per my last post, I was going to try to break out the AIDE+gpg part of the Annvix tools subversion repo to be it’s own git repo. It was scary simple. First, the location of AIDE+gpg in the subversion repo was “tools/AIDE+gpg” and it had one [...]

Figuring this git thing out

I’m a little old-school in that I like subversion. I’ve used subversion for years, and have had it as a big part of my workflow for a really really long time. Unfortunately, there’s this git thing popping up all over the place and I’m starting to feel dated. (It’s bad enough that my daughter turned [...]

Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X

Last week’s mac techmail was Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X in which I looked at the Tower application, a Git GUI client for OS X. I’ve looked at a few Git clients for OS X and Tower was my application of choice amongst the contenders; the tip explains why. Tower [...]

New Fedora git repositories

A little bit frustrated with Fedora’s new git repositories this morning (for packages). Ding-Yi Chen has a really nice write-up on how to get started with it. Got me a few of the essentials that I had missed earlier. I like the new certificate that can be used with Koji. That’s pretty slick. Ding-Yi Chen [...]