Recently I finished a project that I’ve been working on and wanted to delivery it to the client. Unfortunately, I’ve been using Git, while they wanted me to commit the code into their monolithic Subversion repository. Of course the easiest thing would be to simply commit an export of the project into a new directory, […] Read more – ‘Tips for merging a Git repository into an SVN one’.
I think I’m not alone in having many Git repositories, many of them I don’t currently use because they’re from old projects. However, I don’t want to delete them because I might want to refer back to one of them or make a change (which I’m doing right now for a three year old project). […] Read more – ‘Archiving Old Git Repositories, Or GitHub Is Too Expensive’.
This took me a while: git --git-dir=the/local/repo/.git --work-tree=the/local/repo status For example: git --git-dir=/Users/peter/Sites/cap/.git --work-tree=/Users/peter/Sites/cap status Annoying but least it’s possible. Read more – ‘Git Status From Outside of the Working Directory’.
JGit is the Java library that the EGit Eclipse Git plugin uses. Too bad there seems to be absolutely no documentation and the source code is next to impossible to find. Here’s the URL to browse the repository: http://egit.eclipse.org/w/?p=jgit.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/master;hb=refs/heads/master Read more – ‘JGit Documentation’.
