Moving

This is the 40th post. This is the last post here. I have moved.

http://tunginobi.spheredev.org/site/

This place sucks. It mangles up my code, the whitespace between paragraphs is screwed up 3/4 of the time, and the site doesn't automatically log me in. So long, I'll see you on the other side.

Git for the lazy

I just wrote a guide for git, for people who don't know what a distributed version control system is, and don't care.

git for the lazy

That will take you from zero to hero... well, zero to something, fast.

On the side, I also gave Mercurial a shot, since I wanted to use it for some *shudder* Windows development. From what I saw, it lacked the two things I liked about git:

1. Local, non-cloned repo "proper" branches (in progress though), and
2. an index cache/staging area (I heard it has something similar, but I haven't found it anywhere).

So when it came down to git and Cygwin versus Mercurial and Window's cmd.exe, the choice was somewhat one-sided.

If I'm mistaken about either of those features, and anybody wants to fill me in, you're welcome to comment. :)


::EDIT::

However, I do like Mercurial's local revision numbers. It probably works better for it than git though, since Mercurial's branches are essentially repository clones.