Track your changes to an open-source project with git

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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 - this is thorough but probably overly complex.
  2. Work on an open-source project from anywhere - this is my current standard approach.
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