The future is git

I just found out that Rails is being moved officially to Git and will be hosted at GitHub. I’m stoked about this because I like Git a lot and I just spent some time installing and learning it earlier this week. Incidentally, the only problem I had was with generating the crypto key pair and getting it to work with remote Git repos like Github and Heroku. I finally figured it out though and it wasn’t even a Git problem. It was a problem with the tools available for key generation on Windows. I have a hunch it would have been a lot easier on a Mac. I just read a quote that I think perfectly outlines the main benefit of switching to Git:

Git is starting to change the way that I do development. I can finally use branches the way that I’ve always wanted to. I can finally have several features in development at once on different branches, because it’s so easy to switch and merge between them.