Hi everyone,<br><br>I'm pleased to announce that Randal Schwartz [1] will be presenting Git at the Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 7pm. If you are in the LA area I recommend you make the trek up to Thousand Oaks this time as Randal is a well known speaker with a lot wisdom and advice to share. I'll pick up some snacks (pizza, sandwiches...) and drinks for everyone to partake in. Please see below [2] for more directions and other information about this event.<br>
<br>Here's Randal's blurb on this presentation:<br><br> Introduction to the Git distributed version control system<br>
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When you have hundreds of people simultaneously patching 25000 files of<br>
the Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways, you might need some scheme<br>
or plan to sort all that out before you can build your next kernel and<br>
reboot. The Linux team uses "git" for their source code repository<br>
management, a homegrown solution that is optimized for highly distributed<br>
development, working with huge sets of files, merging independent work at<br>
multiple levels, and seeing who broke what. (Git has also since been<br>
notably adopted by the Android, Freedesktop.org, OLPC, Wine, GCC, jQuery,<br>
Maemo, Prototype, Samba, VLC, and of course many of the Perl projects<br>
including the Perl core.) In my talk, I describe what "git" is and isn't,<br>
and why you should use it instead of CVS, Subversion, SVK, Arch, Darcs,<br>
Mercurial, Monotone, Bazaar, and just about every other repository<br>
manager. I'll also walk though the basic concepts so that the manpages<br>
might start making sense. If I have time, I'll even do a live walkthrough,<br>
where you can watch how fast I make typos.<br><br>See you all tomorrow night!<br><br>Aran<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/">http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/</a><br>[2] <a href="http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/meeting-location/">http://thousand-oaks-perl.org/meeting-location/</a><br>