Just for convenience, paste this in a git bash window: while true; do date; echo "Polling svn server..."; git svn fetch;echo "Sleeping."; sleep 300; done Then just refresh your fa…

I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that git is not the perfect tool for teams developing exclusively on Windows. And by that I mean, I cannot recommend it unconditionally as I would like to be …

Multiple working folders for git on Windows XP (lucky me) It is assumed that you have a git working copy of your project already in place at C:\code\myproject\ and that you want another copy of your p…

How to configure kdiff3 as a mergetool in msysgit. (I think if you install kdiff3 before msysgit it is picked up automatically, if not, do the following after installing both). In git bash: git config…

Initial clone: git svn clone -T trunk/openlayers/ -t tags/openlayers/ -b branches/openlayers/ http://svn.openlayers.org/ openlayers.git "http://svn.openlayers.org/tags/openlayers/docs-2.8/" is in the …

I've just written a lengthy open letter to github in the hope that they will support continuous centralized imports from svn to git. If they don't wish to rise to the challenge (and I wouldn't hold it…

Under git version 1.5.4.3, which as of writing is the current in ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron, trying to split out a folder from a git repo where the repo was an import from subversion (svn), and the folde…

I couldn't find anything exactly matching this on the net when I was figuring it out, so here's what I did. This is working against a remote svn (subversion) server, but applies even without one. On t…