From CVS to Git, the short story

I decided, finally, to move my main hobby project from CVS to Git. I wasn’t new to Git but I hadn’t worked with it for real. So I thought it was a good idea to start doing that and learning the ropes.

Of course there where two parts to that, first migrating the repository, which this blog post will not talk about at all. My only tip is to do that on a genuine Linux system, on Cygwin I ran into a lot of problems.

The second part was to start learning to use Git on a day to day basis. So here’s a very short tutorial on Git for CVS users.

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