Track your changes to an open-source project with git

Here are some of the projects on which I have overlaid my code, with the help of git:

• mythtv
• ampache
• wordpressmu
• recess
• a proprietary project hosted privately behind an openvpn connection

All of these currently use subversion, which git can read from and write to. Some of them (read: "mythtv") are insanely active. Git can help you remain sane while you try to overlay your changes on top of a moving target.

I have used two approaches:

1. Setting up your own public repo on top of an open-source project
2. Work on an open-source project from anywhere