I started playing around with GitLab last month in order to get to know it a better and, while I like it well enough, the one thing that drove me nuts was the email that it sent out alerting of changes. My old git setup used the wonderful git-notifier script …

Probably most people who use git know about patch management and whatnot, so I'm writing this largely for myself as I keep forgetting (mostly because I don't have to do it very often).

Some code that I'm working on has a development branch which I'm working on while other fixes …

I've had no time to do any coding lately, which makes me sad, but when I did have time and was doing lots of commits in short periods of time, I definitely felt like doing this. Many many times.

I'm a big fan of the git-notifier script, which acts as a hook in git to send you nice emails about things that have changed in your git repos. I'm also a bugzilla user, so I wanted to be able to put git commit notifications, automatically, in bugzilla if "bug …

As I've been git-ifying some stuff around here, I've run into a few tips that might be useful for other git beginners.

The first is to setup some global options, some of which are nice for folks coming from Subversion. Having a global ignore file is useful. Mine has the …

Well, that was pretty easy to figure out. As per my last post, I was going to try to break out the AIDE+gpg part of the Annvix tools subversion repo to be it's own git repo. It was scary simple.

First, the location of AIDE+gpg in the subversion …

I'm a little old-school in that I like subversion. I've used subversion for years, and have had it as a big part of my workflow for a really really long time. Unfortunately, there's this git thing popping up all over the place and I'm starting to feel dated. (It's bad …

Last week's mac techmail was Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X in which I looked at the Tower application, a Git GUI client for OS X. I've looked at a few Git clients for OS X and Tower was my application of choice amongst the contenders …

A little bit frustrated with Fedora's new git repositories this morning (for packages). Ding-Yi Chen has a really nice write-up on how to get started with it. Got me a few of the essentials that I had missed earlier. I like the new certificate that can be used with Koji …

This week's techmail is Convert CVS repositories to Git which goes into the how, and possibly the why, of converting a CVS repository into a git repository, retaining all commit and history information.