The full history of BlogIt source code is now available on GitHub. You can find and download the current release, all prior releases, and also the most recent ā€˜stableā€™ development release. Hereā€™s a quick run down for those not familiar with GitHub:


Until now Iā€™d used Subversion to manage all my projects. But supporting the various branches of BlogIt, those used for support, those for feature development, was becoming cumbersome in Subversion. It was also a pain to share development branches with people, and involved emailing zip files around, and remembering which version each person had ā€“ not pretty. Of course this could have been partially resolved by hosting the Subversion repository on a Subversion equivalent of GitHub (Google Code for example), but GitHub is where the cool kids hang out, and it was time to change the way I managed BlogIt.

GIT promised, and so far delivers, on an easier way to accommodate branch switching. Plus, I liked the idea of hosting the code in a more developer social environment. Not sure what will come of it yet, but who knows.

For now Iā€™ll spend some time getting familiar with GIT, but over time Iā€™ll migrate my other projects, PmWiki cookbooks, and PmWiki skins over to GIT, and onto GitHub as well.