I have been using Git and Git SVN for quite some time now. It took me a little while to get into Git and see what all the fuss with DVCS was about. Now I find myself enjoying using Git more and more when it is the only version control in use in a project.
Git SVN is certainly a great compatibility layer, and it has allowed me to use Git as my version control system locally without requiring that the projects I contribute to switch. I had heard lots of good things about GitHub, but had not found the time to check it out until Geoff showed me Avogadro after he had pushed it to GitHub. There are some great stats and it looks like is has some great features. I was originally put off by the 100MB limit on storage as it seemed a little low.
When I got home yesterday evening I started playing with it and ultimately made three Avogadro repositories - the third one looks like it is the charm. I had not been worried about importing author metadata previously as I had just been using it locally, but after reading this short guide to migrating to Git I had all the tools I needed. A short trawl through our mailing lists, web pages and history to update author information and I had a shiny new Avogadro git repository.
I am still getting the hang of how all this works. I have added several other committers it matched up as collaborators, but did not spot what exactly that means yet. I was able to get CIA working in our IRC channel, pushed some changes and even synced up a commit from this morning. So I think all is well and I will likely keep this repo up to date with our development. It only has trunk in it, but shows photos of your friendly Avogadro developers and a really nice visualisation of development over time. I think it should open up with the latest stats first, but other that that am impressed. It complements some of the ohloh analysis quite nicely too.
Now can we all please move our source over to some kind of Git repository please!