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Using Git With OS X: 6 Tools to Get You Up and Running

Written on March 10, 2009 by Andrew Bednarz and 8 people have commented

Who are you calling a Git? When I say ‘Git’, I don’t mean the British derogatory term that was immortalized by the TV show Red Dwarf. I mean of course the latest generation of revision control systems, designed by Linus Torvalds for use on the Linux kernel. You can read up on the history of [...]

TextMate: No longer a reason to avoid Git

Written on January 09, 2008 by Billy Halsey and 10 people have commented

I wrote recently about my headaches using Subversion with iWork documents (“iWork hates Subversion”). The consensus from the comments was that I needed to ditch Subversion for a more modern version control system. Both Mercurial and Git were popular among commenters. (I decided on Git, incidentally. The transition was extremely smooth.)

One TAB reader, HG, lamented [...]