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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:IT'>The learning curve for developers to become valid for a large open source project is particularly steep (git, java,perl, python, c ++, c #, project architecture, project philosophy, … many, too many technologies, to learn in a short time).<br>Who, like me, every day develops Windows desktop applications (. NET) without a strong source control system in considerable difficulty.<br>I use only some basic functions of svn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>Probably the</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>biggest problem</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>is the</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>development philosophy that</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>is radically</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>different</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>Windows</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>developers</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>who use</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>only the tools</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>found</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>in the MSDN</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>think in</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>a way</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>totally</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>different from</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>those who develop</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>an open source project</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>with</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span style='background:whitesmoke'>open technologies</span></span><span style='background:whitesmoke'>.</span></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:IT'><br>I have a long past of system administrator and I know very well Unix shell / awk, but I'm not developing Linux applications.<br>I believe that in addition to the information in the wiki is interesting to provide some simple scripts that allow you to quickly start the initial work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>I</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>think it is</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>necessary to find</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>a way to</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>reduce the</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>gap</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>between</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>these</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>two environments</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>in</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>order to facilitate the windows</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>developers</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>to enter the world</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>of</span></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'> </span></span><span class=hps><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>open source technologies</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:whitesmoke'>.</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#333333;mso-fareast-language:IT'><br>In http://pastebin.com/u/walterLO I will upload some simple scripts that might be of interest to developers who are in my same position.<br>can you check their validity?<br>If you think that these simple scripts are useful feel free to post them in the wiki.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#888888;mso-fareast-language:IT'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>walter<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>