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Migrate to DVCS Meetup #2 on March 12th

G'day all! We're finally organizing our second meetup in Sydney dedicated to people making the switch to Git or Mercurial. On this occasion we're looking for a company willing to present their own implementation of Git or Mercurial and give a different perspective on their migration. If you're interested, just send me an email at spittet@atlassian.com. When Tuesday, March 12th - 6pm Where Level 6, 341 George Street Sydney Registration You can sign up from our meetup page.

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Migrate to DVCS Meetup in Sydney

We're hosting our first Migrate to DVCS meetup in our brand new Sydney office! Come learn more about DVCS and our own experience migrating from Subversion to Git and Mercurial. It's also a great occasion to network and connect with others that have similar issues. Last but not least, it's yet another occasion to enjoy a cold beer with the summer kicking off! When Wednesday, October 10th - 6.30PM Where In our new office: 341 George Street, Sydney. Registration You

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Making the Switch to DVCS: The FishEye Teams move from Subversion to DVCS

The Tool is the Easy Part - What about the Processes? The FishEye team was the first team at Atlassian to make the switch to DVCS, and while some Atlassians had previous DVCS experience, quite a few had not yet used it in the workplace with a medium-size team of developers before. We looked for help around the web, but there wasn't a lot of people sharing their experiences at the time. We found many resources like "How do I push a branch in Git?" or "How do I pull from multiple remotes in Mercurial?",

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Git vs Mercurial: Why Git?

This is a guest blog post by Charles O'Farrell, a developer at Atlassian, that will focus on the reasons a team may choose Git as their DVCS of choice. Charles is focused on coding in any DVCS and has spent some time switching users over from ClearCase to Git. In our previous blog we explored why teams may choose Mercurial as their distributed version control system of choice. Now let's explore why Git is a strong option as your distributed version control system (DVCS). Since the dawn of time

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Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?

This post is part of the Atlassian DVCS Guide » This is a guest blog post by Steve Losh focusing on the primary reasons a team may choose Mercurial as their (distributed) version control system. Check out Steve’s projects to see some of the cool things he has worked on around Distributed Version Control, or jump over to his Bitbucket account and fork one of his many projects. In our previous posts, we talked about the history of version control and why it's a good thing, as well as why distributed

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What is Version Control: Centralized vs. DVCS

This post is part of the Atlassian DVCS Guide » In our first entry, we explored some of the basics of any version control system - diffs and patches. Looking past diff and patches, we will now discuss version control systems. Many of you out there are familiar with centralized version control systems like Subversion (SVN), CVS, and Perforce, while others have jumped straight into the distributed version control worlds of Git and Mercurial. There are many other flavors of centralized and distributed

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