I had the unfortunate experience of having to use Subversion again after using Git for a long time. It is amazing how fast I can forget. After renaming a directory at the prompt, and the agony that goes with it, I decided to switch back to Git. $ mv requester sampler # svn agony after [...]

When you clone a git repository, everything is automatically setup to allow you to fetch, pull, push to and from the remote repository, origin. But what is really going on? git remote is configured with a few lines of configuration in the config file inside the .git/ directory. Here’s how it works: Create a new [...]

If you use Git locally against a Subversion repository you might run into problems if your project is set up to generate automatic build numbers through the buildnumber-maven-plugin, since the plugin might be setup to get the build numbers from Subversion. Through some use of additional profiles you can work around this.