git

I've been using Git at work exclusively for a while now (like on Hackwater, we've finally moved off of Subversion), and I just want to leave a note to myself outlining some of the useful things I've come across.

Starting with git config, I like to enable color and credentials (for temporary passwordless Github auth). Also, with nearly 40 git repos, having a global ignore list is incredibly useful. I'm still trying to decide on git aliases that I like; I'll maybe do another post when I've definitively come down on those.

I've been working on moving my personal code repository from Subversion to Git. My main guide for this is John Albin Wilkins' article on converting a Subversion repository to Git. In it, he outlines the steps he took to convert a Subversion repo to a bare git repository; he follows that article with another announcing a script that does all the heavy lifting for a user that has a number of SVN repos to convert.