Git : Fast Version Control System
An important area in software development is Revision control or Version Control. The most known software used for this kind of control, among others, are Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Subversion (SVN). I was analyzing both of them trying to decided for the most convenient. A friend shared with me this interesting article: SNV vs CVS. I was almost deciding for SNV when I discover GIT.
What called my attention is that Git was initially created by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development, according to what I found in wikipedia. This informations is also interesting:
Several high-profile software projects now use Git for revision control, most notably the Linux kernel, Samba, X.org Server, Qt (toolkit), One Laptop per Child (OLPC) core development, Ruby on Rails web framework, VLC, Merb, Wine, SWI Prolog, DragonFly BSD and the Android mobile platform.
There is available an OSX Installer for Git: git-osx-installer, and also a Git Eclipse Plugin.
To install GIT in OSX is a matter of downloading the .dmg file and run the installer package found in it.
Useful Link:
- Eclipse Git plugin installation