Category Archives: git

How to script git with perl and Git::Wrapper

By dagolden | Published: August 30, 2010
If you work with git, eventually you will want to script something that git doesn't do already and can't be accomplished with an alias. If you use Perl, the Git::Wrapper module makes scripting git easy. The big advantage of Git::Wrapper is that it wraps the binary version of git, which keeps your perl and git [...]
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Module::Build repository migrated to git

By dagolden | Published: April 1, 2010
I have completed a migration of the Module::Build repository from Subversion to git. The new repository is available publicly on github.com: Browse the repository Clone it: git://github.com/dagolden/module-build.git I have done my best to clean up the merge/branch/tag history, but have not bothered to clean up empty commits left over from the original cvs2svn conversion. If [...]
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Applying git patch emails to subversion

By dagolden | Published: September 17, 2009
I prefer git, but have been spending a lot with subversion working on Module::Build. To give myself local version control when offline (I was on an airplane), I layered a local git repository on top of the subversion checkout. (Yes, there might be better ways to do this with "git svn" but not as easily [...]
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More git conversions

By dagolden | Published: August 10, 2009
My version number article exhausted me, so this will be a short post. My work to convert some more Perl module repositories from Subversion to git continues with two more things hosted on github: ExtUtils::CBuilder -- This is the complement to ExtUtils::ParseXS, which I described converting last week. Anyone interested in working on it, please [...]
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Convert to git and get more patches?

By dagolden | Published: August 4, 2009
Today, I converted the ExtUtils::ParseXS repository from subversion to git, published it on github.com and announced it on the perl5-porters and module-build perl mailing lists. Within hours, it was cloned and I got my first pull request. I don't know if that's the start of a trend or not, but it's food for thought for [...]
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