Merry Gitmas

Well Christmas is right around the corner, and I would like to wish all of my readers and visitors a happy holiday! I hope you all enjoy the holidays with your friends and loved ones and get the most out of this break that you can. I know I sure will! Speaking of which, I am leaving tomorrow for Toronto, Canada, where I will be spending the next two weeks with my girlfriend and her fathers family, should be amazing to say the least!

The holidays are not what this blog post is really about, the main point is that I am now a member of GitHub. I know many of you have been asking me to do this for some time now. It took me a while to find a Windows solution that I was happy with, and to say the least, Git Extensions is working wonderfully so far! So wonderfully that I will be posting a few entries on how to install and use it. Right now all my CakePHP scripts are on GitHub for your cloning and forking pleasure. I will be adding my other classes shortly, but I'm sure most of you are more interested in the CakePHP ones, so enjoy!

If you find a bug in my script, either fork it and fix it, or post an issue on the GitHub page. I will merge with your changes if they work. Thanks again and Happy Holidays!

GitHub: http://github.com/milesj

5 Comments

  • Hi Miles,

    Thank you for sharing your experience with Git. I studied Git after reading this post and so far i'm having a great time. However, I used TortoiseGit since i was a TortoiseSVN user. See you in Github!

    Jed
    Jed ⋅
  • @Adam - I tried TortoiseGit for a brief period, but I preferred GitExtensions putty support and GUI more.
    Miles Johnson ⋅
  • Have you tried using TortoiseGit? It's very functional and integrates with Windows Explorer, just like TortoiseSVN.
    Adam ⋅
  • Oh thank god, another PHP developer using Windows. I don't feel so alone anymore. Thanks for the tip on Git Extensions too, I'll be trying that out, and congratulations to moving to GitHub. I hope your holidays are fantastic, Miles!
    Brendon Kozlowski ⋅
  • Looking forward to your post on GitExtensions.

    I have tried using mSysgit + TortoiseGit, but it's having problems which most probably due to difference of newlines. (I was trying to read a git repo mounted via smb).

    How's the speed? tortoisegit + msysgit on windows is still very slow compared to its original linux version.
    Rachman Chavik ⋅