Git for the Locals
Posted by h3rald Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:18:00 GMT
“This is a local shop for local people, we want no trouble here!”
— Edward, The League of Gentlemen
I’m normally quite cautious when it comes to IT novelties like new frameworks, new methodologies and similar, especially when it feels like they’re over-hyped. Especially nowadays, it is sometimes very hard to tell whether something new is over-hyped or really a Good Thing™ without spending some time looking into it. And especially nowadays, finding the time to look into something new can be a real challange.
I deliberately didn’t look into Git properly since it went “mainstream” (maybe I shouldn’t use this word), but when this tutorial came out I couldn’t resist. Sure, I knew Git was an amazingly fast distributed version control system, that GitHub offered free accounts, that all the cool guys were slowly starting to use it in place of Subversion, etc. etc.
What I didn’t realize though, that the most obvious advantage of this DVCS was the fact that it was distributed, i.e., it didn’t need a centralized server.
Let me repeat this: Git doesn’t need a centralized server.
Really.
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