In September 2007, I sat down with Karl Fogel to talk about the history of Subversion, democratic open-source projects and why they are easy to run, and his thoughts on distributed version control systems (he likes them!). After many months in limbo, the venue which had previously expressed interest in publishing the piece informed me [...]
I’ve been reading this excellent guide to learn a thing or two about git, specifically how to work locally with git and remotely with Subversion. After importing a repository with a command similar to this: git svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk http://example.com/repository git svn fetch I found that I had no branches [...]
Say you have some web software such as WordPress, MediaWiki, or Gallery installed, and you used a tarball and not Subversion. Now, you want to manage the installation using Subversion, but you don’t want to jump through hoops running diffs and moving files around. Here’s how to do it (thanks to Asheesh for the recipe). [...]
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