Tag: Git

SCM Breeze: Supercharging Your Git Workflow

Post author By Shishir Sharma
Post date February 8, 2012
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Introduction

I've been using Git for a few years now, and while it's an amazing tool, the command-line workflow can be tedious. How many times have you done this?

$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   modified:   app/controllers/users_controller.rb
#   modified:   app/views/users/show.html.erb
#   modified:   config/routes.rb

$ git add app/controllers/users_controller.rb
$ git add app/views/users/show.html.erb

All that typing! Especially when you have deeply nested file paths. I recently discovered a tool called SCM Breeze that solves this problem elegantly.

Tags Bash, Command Line, Git, Productivity, SCM Breeze, shell, Workflow

Cloud Deployment Heroku Ruby

Deploying Ruby Apps to Heroku: Git Push to Production

Post author By Shishir Sharma
Post date March 21, 2011
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Introduction

Deploying web applications used to be painful. Set up a server, configure Apache, install dependencies, manage databases, worry about scaling. It was complex and time-consuming.

Heroku changes this. It's a cloud platform that runs your Ruby applications with minimal configuration. Deploy with git push. Scale with a slider. Focus on code, not infrastructure.

Tags Cloud, Deployment, Git, Heroku, PaaS, Rails, Ruby

Development Tools Version Control

Introduction to Git Version Control

Post author By Shishir Sharma
Post date February 22, 2009
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Introduction

Version control is essential for any development project, and for years SVN (Subversion) and CVS have been the standard choices. But there's a new player gaining serious traction: Git.

Created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for Linux kernel development, Git takes a fundamentally different approach to version control. Instead of a central repository, Git is distributed – every developer has a complete copy of the repository. This might sound complicated, but it offers significant advantages.

Tags Development, Git, Linux, SVN, Version Control

Programming

SVN & Git-SVN

Version control is essential for software development, and in 2008 we're in an interesting transitional period. Subversion (SVN) is the dominant centralized version control system, but Git is gaining momentum fast. Many teams use SVN for their repositories but want Git's powerful local branching and workflow features.

Enter git-svn: a bridge that lets you use Git as your local client while working with SVN repositories.

Tags Git, SVN, Version Control