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Blog posts on Git (usage)

A lot of blog posts related to Git usage have been published since the project's birth. This page attempts to maintain a collection of contained and useful single posts which solve specific problems. Please try to make the link description as accurate and descriptive as possible.

Setup

• git-daemon setup
• Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way (via ssh),
  with the help of gitosis tool (Python, requires setuptools)
• Git repository with Apache (via WebDAV) and gitweb (push via https).
• Setting up the Eclipse Git plugin
• Gitweb installation in 5 minutes on MacOS (see also gitweb/INSTALL and gitweb/README)
• up a repo on shared hosting which has no 'git' binary

Switching to Git and SCMs interaction

• Converting branches imported by git-svn to tags
• Using ParseCVS to convert a CVS repository to Git
• Convert repositories with fast-{export,import} is about converting Bazaar repositories to Git
• Importing SVN-maintained Debian packages into Git
• Multiple branches using git-svn
• Git and Bazaar: Subversion interoperability (in Polish)
• Moving git repositories to SVN/TFS explains how to interact with [WikiPedia:Team_Foundation_Server Team Foundation Server] via git-svn and SVNBridge.
• Change the svn url that a git-svn repository points to.
• svn->git conversion using git-svn by VMiklos describes how to use `git-svn` in place of `git-svnimport`
• Using Git with Google Code Hosting (Google Code offers Subversion hosting) via `git-svn`
• git-svn with svn:externals explains how to make submodules of externals while converting to git.
• git-svn "Howto" shortly explaining the three main commands
• Cloning a Git SVN Clone
• Local version control with git inside of a Microsoft Visual Source Safe working directory

Portability

• Setting up Git on OSX
• Building Git on AIX, HP-UX and Solaris
• Getting git-svn working on the Mac
• Getting Git-SVN to work under Cygwin
• Bring Git Joy to Windows by Matt Wynne (step by step msysGit installation)
• Git 1.6.4.4 on Windows with msysGit

Usage

• Publishing Git repositories
• awsome-ness: git rebase --interactive
• Automating Git Bisection for Rails Apps
• Setting the default branch in a bare repository
• Random tips from using Git at work
• Git overview
• Pimp your Git meme (Planet Debian):
  • aliases and UI coloring
  • quilt-like log output
  • displaying lost commits
  • bash prompt with branch and log1 alias
  • some more bash promptisms
• zsh prompt with git branch and status of rebase/merge/am/bisect
• Matching git-svn strange authors to useful email addresses
• Sharing code via email with git
• Showing an intermixed short log of a bunch of git repositories
• How to force Git to consider a file as binary, or to be more exact as not having crlf conversion (for example EPS, Encapsulated PostScript files).
• How to change the author of existing commits (for example when you committed things without first having set the git author and email address)

Advanced stuff

• Creating a branch without ancestry
• A Git workflow for Debian package maintenance
• Finding where a tarball came from with git
• Now, when did I send that patch again? or finding version of a file
• Git, Binary Files and Cherry Picking Patches (using .gitattributes to mark file as binary, cherry-picking in git)
• Split a git repository into two different repos
• Git submodules describes simple submodules usage (for a test project)
  Splitting a git repository describes how to split existing repository to submodules.
• Subtree merging and you describes how to use subtree merge, an alternative to submodules. See also: Documentation/howto/using-merge-subtree.txt
• Efficiently Updating Web Sites on Web Clusters on Oremj’s Blog describes how to use git instead of rsync to sync web contents to multiple web servers.
• Using Git with .mac (iFolder)
• Easy Git External Dependency Management with Giternal] (on Ruby and Rails News Site, mentions Rake task and Braid as alternate solutions)
• Managing Websites with Git using post-update hooks
• Extending your bash prompt to show git status information

Praise

Like everybody else, the git developers like to be praised from time to time, too.

• Masukomi has Some thoughts on Git