Git: A developer tool not just for developers, you might like it too!

When Linus Torvalds launched Git I’ve read many things about it, but being a rather die-hard FreeBSD sysadmin I didn’t really see much use for it myself at first. After all: FreeBSD uses Subversion which I really enjoyed using myself as well. And if it isn’t broke, why change it?  Well…

Git was one of those things which sat patiently on my todo list until I had the time to check it out. And then it happened: I was trying to help out a Minecraft related project which hosted their code on Github. And that uses Git. And so I figured it was about time to scratch Git from my todo list and start a crash course to first and foremost get my suggestions sent to the project and we’d see what might be next.

That was a few weeks ago.

In the mean time I’ve converted all my Subversion repositories to Git, discovered ways to use Git which are totally impossible on Subversion and I even managed to scratch yet another idea off my todo list because of it. Simply put: I think Git is amazing. And not just for developers, sysadmins like myself can definitely benefit from this as well.

So I figured I’d share my findings.