Tag Archives: git

Git is the next Unix

Avery Pennarun in 2008: With git, we’ve invented a new world where revision history, checksums, and branches don’t make your filesystem slower: they make it faster. They don’t make your data bigger: they make it smaller. They don’t risk your data integrity; they guarantee integrity. They don’t centralize your data in a big database; they […]

git: Duplicate Signed-off-by lines

I’ve been playing around with git a lot as an alternative to subversion and am really loving it. However, I’m getting an error every time I try to commit: Duplicate Signed-off-by lines. I can see where this is being thrown inside .git/hooks/commit-msg, but it wasn’t immediately obvious what the problem was. I did a quick […]