ActiveScaffold Saddles up with Git

Posted by timcharper May 21st, 2008

With so much fun happening in git land, ActiveScaffold has officially cut it’s ties from Subversion and moved completely over to Git. All git related repositories can be found at the following URL:

http://github.com/activescaffold

Why?

The advantages of using Git are too numerous to identify in a short article, but among them are the following:

- Contributing will be easier for all: you can create your own fork of ActiveScaffold to add a feature or fix a bug. Then submitting your patch is as easy as sending a pull request.

- You don’t have to wait for ActiveScaffold core to accept your changes before updating to a newer version. With git, you can pull updates from core and merge them in with your changes.

- Git is super, super fast. I mean REALLY FAST. It’s incredibly space / bandwidth efficent, too.

- Branching is painless in git. Merging your branches is also painless.

- The concept of a “core team” is diluted. ActiveScaffold core doesn’t have to agree with your awesome save-the-world do-everything feature. Just fork and then build it. If it rocks, other people can use your version.

So Come Hop On!

So, if you haven’t already, come join us on the git bandwagon. There are plenty of easy ways to install git now – packages exist for OS X, Windows, and many distros of Linux.

Yeehaa!

  1. craig said on May 31st, 2008 at 10:43 PM ...

    Congratulations on git. I hate to rain on the parade, but we are in the midst of a huge project and the last thing in the world we need to learn is a new vcs. For the bulk of us as users i imagine we couldn’t care less about the vcs and svn worked perfectly fine. So it’s not a case of “hop on, it’s fine” since we have new users on new software wanting tweaks and changes—sorry, Tim! Can’t you help us? Keep the svn alive for a few months so that WE CAN PLAN? Thanks.

  2. Tim Harper said on June 18th, 2008 at 10:23 PM ...

    Hi Craig,

    I’m sorry to hear about your issues, and I definitely feel your pain. You don’t have to convert your project over to git in order to use it active scaffold.

    If you want to upgrade active scaffold, you can always download the latest master branch (trunk) on github. There’s a “download” link next to the title “activescaffold / active_scaffold” which will give you a tarball.

    Thanks,

    Tim

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