Hi Chris,
I personally use Git on https://bitbucket.org/ as they provide a free plan with unlimited repositories. They support both Git and Mercurial so you can try your hand at both.
I haven't had any experience of running these systems internally but would love to try my hand at developing a CI Server with a local git instance and Mocha testing on any commits, so please let us know your experience if you do try setting up your own git server.
I would suggest Bitbucket though and you get the added bonus of a backup of your code on a remote git server.
I commit every line of code to git now, wouldn't want to code without it!
HTH
Alex
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 01:08:31PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
I'm still trying to write a program for my phone but I've already got lots of versions of it spread over various filesystems.
My son has suggested that I use git and I see that there's an installable version for Mandriva. But before I go ahead and install it, is there anything I should know?
I'm not particularly interested in storing the my source code online so I would like to have everything local, either on this 'ere machine or perhaps on a NAS drive. Is this the best approach though?
I use git locally on my machine here at home to keep control of all the bits and pieces I write (mostly bash and python scripts but also some others).
As long as you can remember to commit changes fairly regularly it is a big help when trying to see where something changed/broke etc.
-- Chris Green
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