On 19/04/2008, John-David Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > I was a little bummed by the switch at first as well. > Now though I am beginning to see the cool side of it. > > For example before when you wanted to contribute you had to make a > patch that would only work for the current version of Prototype and > probably not the version that was in SVN (SVN is very picky about > patches). > > With Git and GitHub you can create a forked repo of prototype. > Commit your changes to it and send the core devs a "pull" request. > Then they merge the changes into their repo :). > > Also this allows you to target a specific dev or group of devs and > there are lots of options with Git. > GitHub is hooked into Lighthouse (Prototype's new home for bug > tracking) as well. > It is command line at the time and the GUI's for it are very very > basic. > > I am still learning it. I did have some issues getting my fork to > pulldown, turns out I needed to log into my "pull" address via putty > first to get it to save some registry info. Here are some links: > > Windows version of Git: > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list > > Helpful links: > http://www.sourcemage.org/Git_Guide > http://www.kenegozi.com/Blog/2008/04/01/gitself-take-one.aspx > http://github.com/guides
Thanks for that. Can't wait for a Tortoise. It would almost be worth building a TortoiseAnything which provides an interface for CVS/SVN/GIT/etc to plug into. I bet the boffins are working on this right now. Thanks again. Richard. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
