Petr Baudis announced the creation of a homepage for git [1], the directory content manager used to manage the Linux kernel. Git was originally written by Linus Torvalds in early April of 2005 [story [2]], and is now maintained by Junio Hamano [story [3]]. Other online resources available for the tool include a tutorial [4] that walks through the process of setting up and using git, a man page [5], and the gitweb interface [6] providing easy browsing of the many kernel trees managed by git. The new webpage explains:
"GIT falls into the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to Arch or Darcs (or, in the commercial world, BitKeeper). Every GIT working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access to a central server."
From: Petr Baudis [email blocked] To: git Subject: [RFC] git homepage Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 03:27:28 +0200 Hello, as I promised some time ago, I finally put together a simple GIT homepage proposal now available at: http://git.or.cz/ [7] Basically, I took r3 of Ryan Anderson's synopsis, pruned and rewrote it a bit, added some hypertext and tried to very briefly cover the porcelain as well. Please tell me what you think, and if you happen to be author of some porcelain, already mentioned or not, feel encouraged to send me updates to your description (which should stay brief, though) etc. And if you don't author any porcelain, send me updates anyway. :-) If you like it, it's only up to Junio to decide how official to make it and possibly/probably take over its maintenance (or designate someone more suitable than me to do that). Thanks, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ [8] If you want the holes in your knowledge showing up try teaching someone. -- Alan Cox
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