Git weekly links: 2008-51

Hi,

This week tortoisegit stole the spotlight. Maybe there weren't many other links, or maybe I failed to notice them. Also, many people liked the comment of Linus Torvalds regarding C++ in git.

blog version: http://gitlog.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/git-weekly-links-2008-51/

== Articles ==

Agile git and the story branch pattern Practical explanation about how to use feature branches and why they are good. http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2008/12/18/agile-git-and-the-story-branch-pattern

Using Git to Maintain Your Website http://dmiessler.com/blog/using-git-to-maintain-your-website

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub http://mojombo.github.com/2008/10/18/how-i-turned-down-300k.html

Re: [RFC] Convert builin-mailinfo.c to use The Better String Library.
Linus Torvalds creates some buzz
http://lwn.net/Articles/249460/

== General links ==

tortoisegit http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

Blog posts on Git (usage) http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/BlogPosts

== My picks ==

Learning git-svn in 5min http://tsunanet.blogspot.com/2007/07/learning-git-svn-in-5min.html

"Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

A not countered counter:
C++ is a horrible language
http://skepticalmethodologist.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/c-is-a-horrible-language/
 

What about "Git Extensions": https://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/ http://github.com/spdr870/gitextensions/

And "TortoiseGit Challenge": http://github.com/blog/256-tortoisegit-challenge

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't see many people bookmarking those links, but I added them to the blog post as your picks.

"Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

It seems that the week was quieter than usual, perhaps?

Many are rather old news. People who know git world better, but do not know how you are generating this list and for what purpose, may interpret this as "Here are links I recommend you to follow and read this week" and incorrectly think "why is this bozo listing these ancient news as this week's?"

I do not think you would want that. You may want to briefly mention at the beginning of each issue (say two-line paragraph) how the links listed here are chosen, primarily to explain that these are not hand-picked by you, but culled from the public bookmarks, i.e. "what people are reading this week" or something like that.