From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: How is git used as other than the project's version control? Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20090428014434.GA6462@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70AE3EC48@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Dlugosz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 28 03:44:47 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LycNK-000613-Uz for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:44:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756415AbZD1Boi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755111AbZD1Boi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:38 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:43210 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754695AbZD1Boi (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:38 -0400 Received: (qmail 23666 invoked by uid 107); 28 Apr 2009 01:44:49 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:49 -0400 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:44:34 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70AE3EC48@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:55:38PM -0400, John Dlugosz wrote: > I'm interested in finding out how people use git "on the side", when it > is not the project's actual version control system. Thomas already mentioned using "git diff" separate from a git repository; I find that "git diff --color-words" is much nicer than "wdiff", which does something similar (though I rarely use it outside of a repo only because I put _everything_ into git :) ). One of the nice things about git (and other distributed VCS's) is that creating a repo is very lightweight. If I am going to write a patch for some other software, the first thing I'll do after untarring it is "git init; git add .; git commit -m import". So it kind of blurs the concept of "what is the project's actual version control system" as you wrote above. If you consider the project to be my patch, it _is_ the VCS. Even though upstream may not be using it. And of course, if I am going to do multiple patches, then I may convert and track upstream's history via git. If you are looking for exotic uses of git, you may be interested in Dscho's "Using Git For What It Is Not Intended" contest: http://search.gmane.org/?query=UGFWIINI -Peff