Re: What's the best way to make my company migrate to Git?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2010, 15:54 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikwpjtJnR856CHr_O3856JoMrFBgOQGODXNBbeI@mail.gmail.com>

Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com> writes:

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> I think that to introduce git in my company I should at least go throw
> this 5 points:

> 1. prepare a project management web application easy to use and
>    mantain (like github or gitorious for instance) on one of our
>    intranet servers.

Note that while Gitorious (in Ruby), InDefero (in PHP), and Girocco (with gitweb, Perl + shell script, used by http://repo.or.cz) are open source, GitHub is not. There is GitHub:FI if you want [self] hosted GitHub-alike, but it is proprietary and it is not cheap.

There is also Gerrit, a web based code review system, which runs in any standard Java servlet container.

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> Can you also tell me if you think there is some risk in migrating and
> what kind of difficult I could encounter in the process?
> For example: like any company we have a proxy and a firewall..
> For example: if i had to commit something working from home I connect
> to the Subversion via HTTPS and commit, with Git I should have ssh
> access which is something that I probably will not have.

Actually with never Git you can push and pull via HTTP(S) natively, thanks to git-http-backend. With older Git you had to use HTTP as "dumb" protocol, using HTTPS + WebDAV to push (note that for "dumb" servers git-update-server-info must be run, e.g. via a hook).

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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