New to GIT

I'm not going to go back over the technical details of GIT here but have a couple of pointers.

I developed a project using a local GIT repository for a while. This allowed me to track changes over time, undo changes, generally feel more secure in development. As I want to keep the code private until it reaches some level of maturity this also allowed me to avoid the $7 monthly charge for an offsite private depo.

When it came time to share the code on a different machine it became time to bite the $7 bullet - at this point though I found myself wasting a day of dev time learning how to setup a remote depot, copy my existing depot to it while maintaining history.

Short lessons learnt:
- GitHUB applications are useful, but slightly unstable
- It is much easier to start the depot online from the start. if you can then do so
- When scrubbing large files from the depot so you can upload it (there is a 100Mb limit) pay attention to any platform specific semantics (" vs ') and the fact that filenames are case sensitive
- The "bfg" sounds useful but I haven't managed to get it to run on my PC, will try on my MAC. For small solo projects the git filter-branch command isn't too slow - but you do have to be careful with the syntax (see above!).

Overall GIT is a very powerful tool with huge numbers of settings and seems like a good choice for solo or small scale development. As a windows developer who sometimes finds themselves in Linux, UNIX, MAC etc I'd say the learning curve is steep even with GitHUB (which has a tendency to say useful things like "failed" rather than give you the full output) and when setting up a new depot would allow yourself some time to get things working just right.

Having used Perforce, SVN, CVS, GIT and SourceSafe I'm still sitting in the Perforce camp but mainly because of the nice frontend and GIT is growing on me fast.