Version Control Blog

13 Feb 2007: GIT 1.5.0 has been released. This major release includes lots of changes and improvements in such areas like:

• index manipulation;
• repository layout and objects transfer;
• bare repositories handling;
• reflog (history from the view point of the local repository);
• crufts removal;
• detached HEAD;
• packed refs;
• internationalization;
• shallow clones.

(via LWN.net)

John Goerzen tells a story about his evaluation of SCM tools for the following problem:

One of my tests was a real problem: I wanted to track the Linux 2.6.16.x kernel tree, apply the Xen patches to it, and pull only specific patches (for the qla2xxx driver) from 2.6.17.x into this local branch. I wanted also to be able to upgrade to 2.6.17.x later (once Xen supports it) and have the version control system properly track which patches I already have.

John Goerzen “Whose Distributed VCS Is The Most Distributed?”

07 Jan 2007: GIT 1.4.4.4: a handful bugfixes since 1.4.4.3.

3 Jan 2007: “The scripts have changed considerably since the initial announcement two months ago. The current scripts are much more reliable, and follow more of the quilt/mq semantics.” (via LWN.net)

20 Dec 2006: GIT 1.4.4.3: This release contains merge-recursive corner case fix; it also fixes git-cvsserver (when used with newer Perl) and Mac OS build (when you use config.mak), among other things. Junio also added:

To let people who only follow the ‘maint’ releases know what’s happening in the larger picture… We have just started talking about the next feature release v1.5.0 on the ‘master’ branch side. If we are lucky we could do a -rc1 around Christmas, emperor’s birthday in Japan, or perhaps emperor’s birthday in the Penguin land, but in any case the real release is not expected to happen by mid January. The new release will have many end-user level changes since the last feature release v1.4.4, both at the UI level and at the documentation level, based on previous discussions on the list. It is strongly encouraged and very much appreciated to review and to fill gaps you would find in today’s ‘master’ and what’s cooking in ‘next’, if you were involved in the discussions and/or if you are interested in the theme of v1.5.0: “usability and teachability”.

09 Dec 2006: GIT 1.4.4.2: contains a handful fixes since 1.4.4.1.

22 Nov 2006: GIT 1.4.4.1: contains mostly small post-release fixups.

17 Nov 2006, Cogito 0.18.2: a couple of bugfixes and a trivial new feature. (via LWN.net)

linux(at)horizon.com has published the draft document on branching and merging in Git.

I know it took me a while to get used to playing with branches, and I still get nervous when doing something creative. So I’ve been trying to get more comfortable, and wrote the following to document what I’ve learned.

Read it at LWN.net: “Branching and merging with git”

Git Queues (gq) is a series of bash scripts which add a Mercurial queues-like functionality and interface to git. 14 Nov 2006: Git Queues 0.10: The scripts are rather incomplete at the moment, but I’m hoping they’ll get to being very usable very soon. (via LWN.net)