created on Mon, 2009-02-09 22:39

All the cool kids are using distributed version control systems these days. And the coolest of these systems is git. I have been a long time version control geek (my first co-op engineering work report at the University of Waterloo was about Nortel's version control system!)!

So, I have wanted to learn git but had no project. A few weeks ago I realized that Acquia Drupal wasn't released using version control which was surprising; it therefore seemed like a perfect fit: check Acquia Drupal 1.2.1 into the wonderful hosted service for git, github, to help others and myself when it came time for the upgrade to 1.2.2 or whatever the next Acquia version is called. Of course you could also do this in CVS or SVN but that wouldn't be as much fun and there wouldn't be the easy branching features of a distributed version control system!

If you are a git lover or veteran you can find the result of my experiment at: http://github.com/rtanglao/acquia-drupal-6

After the jump, the gory technical details to help others new to git and of course to get feedback and improve my usage of git in the future!

created on Fri, 2007-11-09 16:06 On Disguised Drupalist Debug Day, I recorded this video where Boris and Francis discuss how to manage source code with SVN and CVS and other source code control systems for Drupal and software development in general.

created on Thu, 2006-09-14 22:06

I finally got around to stopping by the IBM developerworks forums and leaving some feedback for the folks that are doing the great series of articles on developing a site with Drupal. They're diving all the way down into developing modules, including explaining Drupal's hook system, which is great to see.