Yesterday Git 1.6.0 was released.
Please read full announcement and changelog.
Dave Dribin wrote a couple of posts on choosing between the usual suspects: Mercurial, Bazaar and Git. Well-written, recommended.
Read at: Choosing a Distributed Version Control System; follow-up: Why I Chose Mercurial.
Important opinions from Subversion developers:
Karl Fogel: “Subversion, decentralized version control, and the future”
Ben Collins-Sussman: “The Risks of Distributed Version Control”
Git 1.5.3 was released by Junio Hamano on Sep 3rd. Read more at:
- few selected new features by Garry Dolley;
- more on git stash feature, by Jonathan Tron;
- original announcement by Junio Hamano, with detailed changelog;
Garry Dolley posted the module for Capistrano (that’s Ruby on Rails deployment tool) which allows it to use Git as the source control system.
Read more and download at “Capistrano 2.0 with Git shared repository”.
Zack Rusin created useful Git cheat sheet.
See “Git cheat sheet” for several sizes.
There is also a similar Mercurial cheat sheet at http://www.ivy.fr/mercurial/ref/v1.0/
Thank you, Robert.






