Duplicate send, had typo in orif address line :( On Saturday 23 July 2005 04:50, Ryan Anderson wrote: >On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:46:00AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> - Publicity. I would be very happy to see somebody with good >> writing and summarizing skills to prepare an article to be >> published on LWN.NET to coincide with the 1.0 release. An >> update to GIT traffic would also be nice. > >How is this for a start? > >Source Code Management with Git > >Git, sometimes called "global information tracker", is a "directory >content manager". Git has been designed to handle absolutely > massive projects with speed and efficiency, and the release of the > 2.6.12 and (soon) the 2.6.13 version of the Linux kernel would > indicate that it does this task well. > >Git falls into the category of distributed source code management > tools, similar to Arch or Darcs (or, in the commercial world, > BitKeeper). This means that every working directory is a > full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities. > >Git uses the SHA1 hash algorithm to provide a content-addressable > pseudo filesystem, complete with its own version of fsck. > o Speed of use, both for the project maintainer, and the > end-users, is a key development principle. > o The history is stored as a directed acyclic graph, making > long-lived branches and repeated merging simple. > o A collection of related projects are building on the core Git > project, either to provide an easier to use interface on top > (Darcs, Mercurial, StGit, Cogito), or to take some of the > underlying concepts and reimplement them directly into another > system (Arch 2.0). o Two, interchangeable, on-disk formats are > used: > o An efficient, packed format that saves spaced and network > bandwidth. > o An unpacked format, optimized for fast writes and incremental > work. > A very good start for the overview preamble. Do carry on.
>Git results from the inspiration and frustration of Linus Torvalds, > and the enthusiastic help of over 300 participants on the > development mailing list.[1] > > >1 - Generated with the following, in a maildir folder: > find . -type f | xargs grep -h "^From:" | perl -ne \ > 'tr#A-Z#a-z#; m#<(.*)># && print $1,"\n";' | sort -u | wc -l -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
