subject text <a href=http://git.or.cz/>Git</a> is a distributed source code management tool similar to darcs and mercurial. After becoming frustrated with darcs (a great interface, but it would get stuck in certain situations), I decided to give git a try. Here's what I did to set it up: <h4>getting and compiling</h4> <pre> curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.0.5.tar.gz -O gunzip git-1.5.0.5.tar.gz ; tar -xvf git-1.5.0.5.tar; cd git-1.5.0.5 make configure ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make all sudo make install </pre> <h4>setting up the environment</h4> Next add /usr/local/bin to your path if needed. For example, my ~/.profile file contains: <pre> export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/bin:~/bin </pre> Now you can configure git to know about you: <pre> git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here" git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com </pre> <h4>creating a repo</h4> Within your project folder, you can create a .gitignore file to tell git which files it should ignore. You can see mine <a href=http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/git/Io/.gitignore>here</a>. Now you can create the repo: <pre> git init git add . git commit </pre> <h4>running a server</h4> I couldn't get git to run with http, but I was able to run the server version with this command: <pre> git-daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=/Volumes/Internal500GB/WebServer/iolanguage/scm/git </pre> To get it to launch automatically at boot time, I used <a href=http://lingon.sourceforge.net/>Lingon</a> to create <a href=/blog/Library/git.plist>this launch file</a> in /Library/LauncDaemons/git.plist so now the repo can be fetched elsewhere by: <pre> git clone git://www.iolanguage.com/Io </pre> password