Git


Google Tech Talks
October, 12 2007

ABSTRACT

When you have hundreds of people simultaneously patching 25000 files of the Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways, you might need some scheme or plan to sort all that out before you can build your next kernel and reboot. The Linux team uses"git" for their source code repository management, a homegrown solution that is optimized for highly distributed development, working with huge sets of files, merging independent work at multiple levels, and seeing who broke what. (Git has also since been notably adopted by the Cairo, x.org, and Wine teams, and is being transitioned to by the Mozilla codebase.)

In my talk, I describe what "git"; is and isn't, and why you should use it instead of CVS, Subversion, SVK, Arch, Darcs, Mercurial, Monotone, Bazaar, and just about every other repository manager. I'll also walk though the basic concepts so that the manpages might start making sense. If I have time, I'll even do a live walkthrough, where you can watch how fast I make typos.

Speaker: Randal Schwartz







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Uploaded: October 26, 2007 at 9:12 am
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Video Comments:
M1C1S (October 17, 2008 at 7:48 am)
theonebubbat: I guess that would break git. But chances are really small to accidently find two different files with the same SHA1. That's always a problem when using hashes ;-)
theonebubbat (October 11, 2008 at 10:34 am)
So what does git do if two objects wind up having the same sha1?
temospreamo (July 11, 2008 at 9:44 am)
This Video is 60 minutes looongcool
nonymity (June 8, 2008 at 7:30 am)
just starting with git and i found this video usefull to get an overview of the tool

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