Re: How is git used as other than the project's version control?

2009/4/28 John Dlugosz [off-list ref]:

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What is it you're really asking here?

When putting together a presentation on git, I created a simple-looking
slide claiming that "developers will use git anyway" as a
general-purpose tool.  I find lots of web chatter about using it as a
lighter-weight front-end to an Enterprise VCS, or as part of a technique
for working away from your desk in such a system.  But it got me
thinking about how it might be more like a text editor in the sense if
being more generally useful than just that specific thing it's "for".
But I don't have any concrete examples, just a vague notion.

Well, still you skirt around the main issue,  I use git in numerous scenarios:

*)  As a front end to a CVS and/or SVN repository.
*)  To manage files in my $HOME directory.

In the case of the first point, I have people using CVS/SVN directly
without them ever knowing I used git to commit my changes therein,

Is this what you're asking?   It's certainly possible and not too difficult.

-- Thomas Adam