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Over the last few months I’ve switched from Subversion and Bazaar to Git. I’m using Git on a daily basis now and I’m much happier with it than I was when using Subversion. In this post I’ll try to explain why and provide some useful links.

You can work offline

How cool is that? You can clone a repository (which is similar to doing a “checkout”), go offline and then change what you want, commit, merge, branch and whatever. When you go back online you can push your commits to the origin server - if you want.

When using Git you don’t work on a “working copy” of the last revision (as you do with Subversion) - using “git clone URL” you clone the *entire repository*: all commits, merges, branches, everything.

It’s fast as hell

Git is fast. Really fast. Doing commits, branches, merging and even cloning a remote repository: everything is (way) faster than Subversion. I didn’t do any benchmarks on my own, but it’s what I can see.

It will make you want to try new things

Branching and merging in Git are trivial tasks. In Subversion these operations are kind of troublesome; you need to interact with the remote copy, merging is not so easy and you need write access to the remote repository. This - the need of write access - is actually the main problem with it.

With Git I can clone a remote repository, create branches, try things out and never ever send anything back to the origin repository. I can do pretty much everything without getting permission, without bureaucracy.

Github

Github is a really cool social network for programmers. It allows you to share and manage Git repositories in a very easy way; with a few clicks one person can fork, say, httparty, branch, merge and do whatever with it.

Also it allows you to make “pull requests” (a way to poke someone and let them know you’ve got some code they may want) and  get your code on the main repository.

Some useful links about Git

So this is why I’m using Git. The following links are tutorials and explanations about how and why Git works and more reasons to use it. Enjoy.

• The Thing About Git
• Using Git within a project (forking around)
• New to Git?
• Git Internals (Highly Recommended!)

Nos últimos dias venho trabalhando em uma app Django e, como sou iniciante no uso desse framework, todos os dias aprendo algum feature novo para melhorar meu código (como generic views, por exemplo). Para testar esses features o ideal é criar um branch, usar os features no código e, se valer a pena, fazer o merge. O problema: usamos svn na empresa, e fazer branches no svn é bem chatinho (principalmente se comparado ao git). Para resolver isso estou usando o git-svn.

Segue abaixo meu fluxo de trabalho no git-svn:

Link do Gist, para quem não consegue ver no feed.

Enfim, esse é um post pra que eu mesmo não esqueça como fazer isso. Alguns links e tutoriais interessantes sobre o git e o git-svn estão no meu del.icio.us: http://delicious.com/dirceu/git.