git again

For a while now I am using git locally and I am starting to like it a little. Coming from CVS and SVN many things just behave not right and it takes quite some time to make the transition to the new system. Along the way I found some very helpful pointers, that I want to mention here too. There is http://flavio.castelli.name/howto_use_git_with_svn giving a good overview of how to use git and SVN together. But the most helpful had been the documentation at kernel.org. There I discovered for example the rebase command, allowing me to reorder, split and edit my local changes. This truly helps keeps you to commit often and always having a backup of your work. With SVN I often did not commit, since my code would break trunk. For some time I had a local SVN repository that I used to save my changes. But the reediting capabilities in git are so much better.

The next step for me would probably be to put my git repository on github.com. Now the question is of course how to do that? How to have a git personal git repository on github, that I can use to commit to Groovy trunk (SVN) and that I can use for my local work. Can I have like two remote branches? I guess for this I will have to look around more.

Next steps with git...

So after doing a checkout of the repository using git-svn for over two hours I started looking for an eclipse plugin for git.

What I found was EGit, which installed fine... but... well none of the git options appeared. Neither can I import from a git repository nor can I use git commands on the ready project. I tried to install about 5 times and failed 5 times. Maybe it is an error with the plugin, or something with eclipse is making a problem - I really don't know. The error log is clean.

So for me the one and only existing Git plugin for eclipse I found is unusable for me atm.... Next minus for git.

In fact I am now wondering about how to use something equal to for example RapidSVN. A diff tool, that allows me to remove different changes is very important to me - doing that only on the command line is not very effective.

Trying out Git

My current work requires a lot of changes and experiments so I thought it might be good to try out git with the subversion back end.

So the first step is to make a local repository and then get the current svn repository... uhm, yes, the complete repository. Well ok, I am chekcing out only for trunk here, but that is the branch with the most traffic. NOw trunk is atm around revision 19250. A lot of those are not relevant for trunk, since it is about making branches or the test system making commits. But even if a third of those are normal revisions, we still talk about over 6000 revision. Revision git will all have to download.

Now after 45 Minutes I am at about revision 2350... 17000 to go... ehm... this will take hours it seems.

Ok, you have to do that part only once, but still... This I take as a minus for git vs. svn