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At a current project I work on, we use a Windows server to run our subversion repository.
I wanted to set up the pre-commit hook so that commits with empty comment are automatically rejected.
All commit-hook example files that go with Subversion are written in bash (as unix servers tend to be the normal).
Here is [...]

Many of my colleagues know svn but are in general not (yet) ready jump over to using Git for bigger projects.
Today I had to import my existing Git repository into SVN. I had been working locally with a Git repos and wanted to keep my history before giving access to my colleagues.
The guide from [...]

For the last months I have been using Git to work with my Subversion repositories. Besides from reducing disk usage, Git also makes my work slightly faster and independent of network access — I can make commits to repository which is sync’ed later when I get online.
One challenge though: Using branches
I ran into some pitfalls [...]

My problem this week: I wanted to share some work with a colleague. Unfortunately we have not yet setup our caplab environment with git server. Nor did i want to push this particular project to GitHub or Unfuddle. My alternative was a file-based setup:

Each developer’s machine has it’s own Git repository.
On my machine I had [...]

A side benefit of switching from Subversion to Git for source control is that Git does not use shadow files and directories to find out what has changed.
I created two checkouts of a svn project — one using traditional svn and one using git (which can actually clone a svn repos — see explanation below).

[~/my-projects] [...]