GITNotes

GIT - the revision control (not the GNU Interactive Tools project)

The definition of Linus Torvalds :

GIT - the stupid content tracker

"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.

 - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
   actually used by any common UNIX command.  The fact that it is a
   mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
 - stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
   dictionary of slang.
 - "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
   works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room. 
 - "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks

• Where to find GIT : http://git.or.cz/
• Documentation about GIT : http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/
• Mailing-list about GIT : http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#git
• More information about the format behind : http://www.seyza.com/=clients/linus/tree/src/liblob/index.html

The Original GIT name

GIT has been around for a long time before Linus Torvalds picked that unfortunate name; it is a GNU project: GNU Interactive Tools. It's home page is at http://www.gnu.org/software/git. Documentation can be read at http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/COMP/info/git/git_toc.html. Its Freshmeat entry is at http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/gnuinteractivetools/. and its FSF Free Software Directory entry is at http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/git.html. It has a Debian package and is part of the standard Debian installation; its package entry is at http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/git.

Variation on GIT

• Cogito (old git-pasky) - http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/ - old-link http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/git/
• Cogito (?tracking?) - http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/Cogito
• Debian package of Cogito - http://packages.debian.org/cogito - old-link http://dept-info.labri.fr/~danjean/deb.html#cogito
• GNU Arch embraces GIT http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2005-04/msg00170.html ;-)
• Junkio (JIT is a set of small scripts that builds a snapshot-based SCM..) - http://members.cox.net/junkio/
• Stacked GIT is a Python application providing similar functionality to Quilt (i.e. pushing/poping patches to/from a stack) on top of GIT - http://www.procode.org/stgit/

API to GIT

• Perl module to access GIT - http://node1.wunjo.org/~jcorbin/yagf.git
• GIT FUSE Filesystem-like - http://www.sfgoth.com/~mitch/linux/gitfs/

Web Interfaces to GIT

• WIT http://www.absolutegiganten.org/wit/
• GITWeb http://ehlo.org/~kay/gitweb.cgi - download ftp://ehlo.org/gitweb.cgi - ftp://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
• GIT tracker - http://www.tglx.de/gittracker

Other User Interface around GIT

• gitkdiff patch - http://home-tj.org/gitui/files/gitui-200504281405.tar.gz
• gitk - http://ozlabs.org/~paulus/gitk
• qgit - http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgit/ - the QT/C++ git viewer

Introduction to GIT

• very basic and simple introduction to GIT and Cogito - http://ksit.dynalias.com/articles.php?s_id=46&art_id=39
• http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
• git itself contains a tutorial (tutorial.txt), some howtos and some documentation - http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=git/git.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/tutorial.txt

GIT repositories

• at kernel.org - http://www.kernel.org/git/
• GIT tracker - http://www.tglx.de/gittracker

Alternative or similar SCM to GIT

• Mercurial - a minimal scalable distributed SCM - http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/

hash-based storage / discussion

• http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/henson/henson.pdf

SCM GIT