Beginning the GIT transition

I know I am late to the party, as usual, nut after finding out about the great hosting option known as Heroku, it has become a necessity.

My one drawback is that I love my svn gui SmartSVN. It turns out that there is a built in GUI called git gui…. read here: http://pillowfactory.org/2008/09/11/git-awareness-week-git-gui/ for more info.

Other Resources:

• http://toolmantim.com/articles/setting_up_a_new_rails_app_with_git
• http://git-scm.com/course/svn.html

So here we go with the process today. I found that this blog post http://blog.viarails.net/2008/4/4/how-to-convert-your-svn-repo-to-git was flawless in execution and I highly recommend it. So far I have been able to complete the transfer and upload the new git repository.

I would like to argue that SVN is not passé – or out of style – in fact when you are working with a small team of developers, or even by yourself, I think that the remote server concept is actually quite beneficial. I understand the whole branch / merge concept, and think it is fantastic, but I see value in all both approaches. Just my 2 cents.