🐫Git

Git is a distributed version control system. It stores whole objects, not diffs, which is one of the key differences between Git and other version control systems of its time. This speeds up operations like checking out branches and processing commits in batch. Distributed means that while you can have a single source of truth, nothing will break when it goes down, because the whole object database is stored on users' machines, and data integrity is easily verified (commits can also be signed using OpenPGP).

Péter Gervai:

That is probably an inherent lazyness of me, for example I passionately hate git and pretty much like mercurial, because the first was created by a dozen hackers to themselves, and nobody really understands it, and nobody else can really use it to its full potentials, and all the documentation and help pages are obscure, complex and generally written from the perspective of someone already knowing the system and being pretty annoyed that have to explain it to anyone else; mercurial on th eother hand has an excellend handbook, good structured help system, easy to use commands which can be very complex if someone take the time and efforts to learn it. And both systems are basically the same, do the same, using the same principles. The difference is the attitude towards the people not yet being fluent in the system.

Also see: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

A platform like Github makes this different, in that it abstracts these tools into a web UI and expect all collaborators to have an account at the platform. The more I learn about ways of collaborating outside of a centralised service like that, the more I've come to dislike them. Decentralised collaboration is a lot more enjoyable and empowering.

Cleaning up the history might seem tedious at first for marginal cosmetic benefits, but it gets much easier and faster with practice. Here I am collecting some tips for cleaning up a git commit history before publishing it to others, for example in the form of a pull request.

Submodules are easier to push but harder to pull – This is because they are pointers to the original repository
Subtrees are easier to pull but harder to push – This is because they are copies of the original repository

git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle, whether due to limitations in memory, time, or disk space.

git-annex is designed for git users who love the command line. For everyone else, the git-annex assistant turns git-annex into an easy to use folder synchroniser.

Собственно, по-хорошему, тут надо начинать с того, что есть целая тема — «системы управления версиями», предназначенные вообще-то для программистов, но я уверена, что пишущим — не менее нужные. Из них я уже который год использую git.

Gitea federation development has reached a crucial milestone: federating with Mastodon!

This is a big deal.