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Database scaling and performance consultant Markus Winand wrote a blog post criticizing NoSQL adoption for performance reasons. "Most SQL performance problems result out of improper indexing," he wrote. "But indexing is not only a SQL topic, it applies to NoSQL as well."

He goes on to say, however, that there are some cases in which you might want to use NoSQL; and he suggests that Git may actually be a NoSQL database.

GitMarks is a command-line based social bookmarking tool built on Git with Python. It's a script that grabs the content from a URL and stores in Git repository where it can be searched with GREP. It features tags and descriptions, and can import bookmarks from Delicious.

It seems like it could be useful for research teams, or to quickly dump lots of content in one place for future text mining.

Hitch is a tool that enables pair programmers to attribute code to multiple authors in Git commits.

"Just like Maverick and Goose, one dev flies, and one is pretty much the Radar Intercept Officer, having a more dedicated view of threats including syntax errors and stray whitespace," writes Wynn Netherland at The Changelog. "But just like there are two names on those Top Gun plaques, there are two devs in a pair, so there shouldn't there be two names on the Git commit?"

Red Monk analyst Stephen O'Grady recently looked at projects hosted on Ohloh and found that only 13.8% of those projects are using distributed version control like Git and Mercurial. All other projects were using centralized systems like CVS and SVN. O'Grady goes on to cite many benefits in using distributed systems, and the reasons that most developers don't take take advantage of them.

I'm curious: do you use distributed version control for any of your projects? If not, why not?

Seeing a lack stories on the experience of small teams switching from SVN to GitHub, Brian Krausz decided to share the experience he had switching his startup GazeHawk to Git. The team was having some issues with SVN and decided to make the leap. He was able to get the whole thing transfered in one weekend.

Git is a decentralized version control system created by Linus Torvalds that is used by a number of open source projects, most notably perhaps the Linux kernel. GitHub is a new hosted Git repository service that's being called a "social network" for programmers and with good reason. It also already has some high profile projects of its own on board: Ruby on Rails, Capistrano, Merb, Prototype and Scriptaculous, among others. "[GitHub is] the way SourceForge should have been," gushed one beta tester.