Tag Archive for 'Git'

Git Presentation

A few weeks ago I created a keynote presentation about Git for my school.
You can download it here. Please note that it is in german but feel free to modify it and use it for your own presentations.

Moving from Subversion to Git

I started using version control management systems with CVS several years ago.
But soon it was clear that using Subversion instead of CVS would make version control a lot less cumbersome and error prone process. And for the last years Subversion was the system of my choice.

But then I saw Linus Torvalds’ Tech Talk speak at Google about his new version control system called Git.
Although Linus’ talk was a little bit offensive on other version control systems I liked the idea of Git being a distributed system. Other features like the true ease of branching/merging or its speed made it even more attractive.
So I played around with it for a while and I started to like it. This weekend I decided to switch all my Subversion managed projects to Git.
There are some good tools that come with Git which make this process very easy. I don’t want to give another tutorial how to move your Subversion to Git. There are a lot of websites that do that. But here are some links which helped me doing the transition: