Hi Rick, Welcome on board! On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Richard Forristall <Richard.Forristall@goodwillaz.org> wrote:
Nicole Engard and Colin Campbell,
Thanks for the 'heads up' on git.
1. I'm not using git out of pure ignorance. Are you referring to http://git.koha.org or using git vice svn for version control?
Take a look at http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage for more information on Koha and Git.
2. Colin, in your message you talk about contributing my own changes back to the project. I'm new at koha (started supporting our librarian about 4 weeks ago) so this is all new to me. I really like the community model of making the koha software more robust, but what happens when my changes don't apply across all koha users? Branding for example. I certainly don't want to force irrelevant changes onto the entire community.
All non-branding changes are welcome and encouraged.
3. We use Subversion for all our other version control processes, so it was momentum that led me to use it for maintaining my local modifications. We have Koha on a live server and a development server with the idea of having Subversion "in between."
You can run your production Koha on a git repo which is a clone of your development repo which is a clone of the main Koha repo. Thus changes are pushed either way with great ease.
4. I will spend some time looking at http://git.koha.org and git itself.
5. Thanks again for the heads up. This Koha dev community is a tremendous resource :--)
Your always welcome. Consider jumping on #koha as well if you need help or just like the company. Kind Regards, Chris