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RE: How is git used as other than the project's version control?

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JDJohn Dlugosz <jdlugosz@tradestation.com>
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Apr 27, 2009, 23:10 UTC
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> What is it you're really asking here?

When putting together a presentation on git, I created a simple-looking slide claiming that "developers will use git anyway" as a general-purpose tool. I find lots of web chatter about using it as a lighter-weight front-end to an Enterprise VCS, or as part of a technique for working away from your desk in such a system. But it got me thinking about how it might be more like a text editor in the sense if being more generally useful than just that specific thing it's "for". But I don't have any concrete examples, just a vague notion.

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> I use "git diff" all the time
> outside of $GIT_DIR for instance -- invaluable, and was designed
> deliberately that way.
> 
> -- Thomas Adam
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