Git 1.7.10.1 available!

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

It released latest stable version 1.7.10.1

Download for Linux:
http://git-scm.com/download/linux

Release Notes:
https://raw.github.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt

Reference:
http://git-scm.com/

GitHub - 2m Repositories

GitHub has been announced they had passed two million git repositories hosted, In that 1.1 million code repositories and 0.9 million gist repositories.

Gists are GitHub's way of pasting small segments of code at gist.github.com, similar to Pastebin and others that allow you to take code and paste it to the web. Each gist is its own git repository, complete with version control – and as such, gists can be pulled, updated, commented upon and patches provided.

The number of code repositories includes clones (aka 'forks') of the original, so the number of unique git repositories will be somewhat smaller. However, the statistics of the repositories are interesting; over 70% have been created with the last year – with over 4500 new GitHub projects per day.

As for the breakdown of languages; 225k are Ruby-based; 138k are Javascript based 77k are Python based and 560k are classified as 'other language' projects. There is a breakdown by language on the languages stats page, but this counts the number of lines of code rather than number of projects.

Recently, tighter GitHub integration into Eclipse was released as part of Eclipse's mirroring on GitHub and Eclipse Mylyn and GitHub integration. It's now possible to hook up Mylyn to read issues from GitHub Issues 2.0, and of course sync repositories via EGit. It's even possible to create GitHub Gists via Eclipse as a way of sharing code.

Tech Talk - Git's one of primary author

Junio C Hamano is a software engineer in the Google Open Source Programs Office who works on the open source project Git. Git is an increasingly popular distributed version control system that is used by many open source projects including Android, Chrome OS, and the Linux kernel. Jun is the maintainer and one of the primary authors of Git, with 4426 commits!

Jeremy Allison, co-creator of Samba and fellow Open Source Programs Office team member, recently sat down with Jun for some quality Geek Time. Samba uses Git, so there was plenty to talk about! Here are some highlights:

• Jun and Jeremy discuss how Jun began working on open source after the maintainer of GNU’s source control system RCS, Paul Eggert, began mentoring him. (0:56)

• Jun explains why he prefers working within the open source software development model. (2:50)

• Jeremy asks Jun how he became interested and involved with Git. (3:27)

• When Jun first started working on Git, he had to balance his time between working on an open source project with a day job. Jun reveals his secret for making this balance work, and also how he eventually integrated Git into his day job. (7:00)

• Jun and Jeremy discuss the growing popularity of Git in comparison to older version control systems, and Jun gives an overview of some of Git’s features that set it apart. (9:28)

• Jeremy shares his one criticism of Git, which is that it’s hard to use. Jun responds and offers some suggestions for those who are new to Git. (12:48)

• Jun reveals some longer-term goals for Git as well as some new developments for future releases. (17:44)

• Jeremy asks Jun how he ended up at Google and they talk about Git’s growing role within Google. (19:24)

• Jun gives advice to developers who are new to open source and want to get involved. (21:50)

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GitHub

GitHub is a online project hosting service using Git revision control system.

Git has cool features compare to other open source revision control system. This book is good for beginners to understand and start their projects with Git.

http://progit.org/book/