Interacting with git from within emacs is a pleasure, thanks to the official git-mode and Christian Neukirchen's fantastic gitsum mode. Here are some convenient bindings for running git-svn from emacs.

If you use the amazing git-svn to work in a civilised manner with a subversion repository, you may have trouble if the subversion repository is relocated, ie. has its access URL change. This article describes an approach for handling this situation, which git-svn does not directly support.

If you work in a team on a Rails project, chances are that you and your team mates occasionally create identically-numbered migrations. Renumbering a migration that you're working on is a pain, unless you're using this handy 'renumber_migrations' plugin.

Ruby On Rails has a Subversion repository with over 7500 commits at the time of writing. In this article I show how you can use Git to have a full local copy of the repository in 9MB, and use it to track upstream changes.

In a subsequent article I will show you how to use such a repository to easily maintain Rails patches for the six months it takes you to get them accepted into Core (wink).