[Wylug-discuss] Call for talks/ideas for talks

[David Holden]

On Monday 30 June 2008, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 02:43:14PM +0100, David Holden wrote:
> > On Monday 30 June 2008, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:23:44PM +0100, Tom Hall wrote:
> > > > I am just nudging the list for volunteers to give talks in future
> > > > WYLUGs, or topics that people would enjoy seeing talks on.
> > > > The only reply last time was from Christopher Brown asking for
> > > > something on sourcecode management; git, SVN, CVS diff, patch etc.
> > > > Anyone doing anything cool here?
> > >
> > > I'm a regular user of CVS, SVN, Arch and Git.  I can give a talk on
> > > them if there is interest in that.
> > > If anyone had any specific VCS topics in mind, I'm sure I could cover
> > > them.
> >
> > I'd be interested in one of Git. Particular how best to use it in a
> > development cycle as a lone developer.
>
> That's the easiest use case for git :)
>
> It's also what I use most myself, though I do occasionally pull other
> branches from people.  Normally, I use a central "official" repository
> and pull and push just from that to my local machine, as do other
> developers in the project.  It is, of course, possible for anyone to
> clone that and then pull and push between me, themselves, and the
> central repo as they feel!  git makes branching and merging so easy, you
> do it all the time (the equivalent of "cvs/svn update", "git pull" is in
> effect a combined fetch and branch merge).  The simplest case is just to
> have a single standalone repo on your local machine, though that's not
> so great for backups and letting others get a copy.
>
> One I work on quite frequently is schroot:
>   http://git.debian.org/?p=buildd-tools/schroot.git;a=summary
>   git clone git://git.debian.org/git/buildd-tools/schroot.git
>
> This would probably be a good simple example for how to use git.  On
> that page you can see both tagged releases, branches (heads) and the
> current master activity.
>
> Example changeset from a contributor:
>  
> http://git.debian.org/?p=buildd-tools/schroot.git;a=commitdiff;h=48a24ea4e5
>a893a1f3404cad2b89d90e5d01232f
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger

At the moment, I'm trying to workout whether its worth my while understanding 
rebasing.
  

  Dave.




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