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GitMinutes #46: Jeff King from Git-Merge 2017

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 21:10:00 +0000

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In this final episode of GitMinutes, we talk to Jeff “Peff” King at Git-Merge 2017.
We talk about how Git itself changes to tackle the needs of companies and users as Git has to scale more and more. We also talk about how protection of the trademark Git will happen in the future. Unfortunately, my interview with Peff got cut slightly short because of technical difficulties.

Since this is probably the last GitMinutes episode ever, there’s going to be a little sentimental blabbering after the interview, so stay tuned for that if you’re into that stuff, or just read my personal blog post here.

If you want to see what I'm up to next, you can keep track of me on Twitter as @tfnico or on my blog.

For another podcast about Git, check out All Things Git.

GitMinutes #45: Edward Thomson from Git-Merge 2017

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 22:27:00 +0000

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In this episode, we talk to Edward Thomson about his experience at Git Merge 2017. Note that Edward now has his own Git podcast together with Martin Woodward: All Things Git, which I can heartily recommend!

GitMinutes #44: Josh Triplett on Git-Series

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 22:04:00 +0000

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This is GitMinutes episode 44, with another interview from the Git Merge conference in 2017: Josh Triplett is the author of git-series, which is a really cool command line tool for evolving patch series in Git.

GitMinutes #43: Johannes Schindelin on Contributing to Git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 08:55:00 +0000

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In this episode we talk to Git contributor and maintainer of Git for Windows, Johannes Schindelin. He has a lot of thoughts and ideas on development, community and code reviews, especially in open source and especially in the development of Git itself.

We talk to Johannes about the difficulties of contributing to Git itself, and tools that could make the experience more user friendly, like for example public-inbox, which is both a mailing list archive and a Git repository.

Outline:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:46 Hello Johannes
00:01:01 What was the most interesting discussion at the dev summit?
00:02:44 How does the mailing list for Git really work
00:03:34 What is Public Inbox?
00:08:14 How can patches be aligned with public inbox topics?
00:14:34 Let's talk about the What's Cooking email
00:20:22 What about tracking patch series that get rewritten?
00:22:05 Gerrit solves this with a change-id, can we do that for the Git mailing list?
00:23:43 What would happen if we allowed HTML mails onto the mailing list?
00:26:54 Should the review take place locally or online?
00:28:09 If we had this standard format for doing reviews, how could we use it otherwise?
00:29:22 How can we make this happen?
00:30:43 Anything else you want to share from the conference?
00:33:03 Outro

GitMinutes #42: Erik from Atlassian on Clone Bundles

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 07:52:00 +0000

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In this episode I’m talking to Erik van Zeist. He’s a developer from Atlassian BitBucket, and at Git Merge this year, he shared some interesting experiments they have been making using clone bundles, which is a technique from Mercurial that will dramatically improve performance of repository cloning. Now they have also started experimenting with doing clone bundles with Git.

Outline:

00:01:23 Tell us about clone bundles
00:03:29 Is this a server-side or a client-side extension?
00:04:28 Are you already using it on Bitbucket?
00:04:49 What sort of resources does clone bundles save?
00:06:00 How does it work with the bundle on a CDN and subsequent changes?
00:07:13 How does Mercurial content negotiation differ from Git?
00:08:29 What else do we need to make this work?
00:10:22 How does it work on the client exactly?
00:11:01 How are you going to integrate this with main Git?
00:12:12 Could this be something that the Git client tools should provide?
00:13:55 What did the other Git contributors think about the idea?
00:15:32 Is a clone that was made using clone bundles different from a normal clone?
00:16:46 Is this for pulling or only for initial clone?
00:18:10 Anything else you want to share?
00:19:51 Outro

GitMinutes #41: Stefan Beller and J. Wyman (Git Merge 2017)

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 08 May 2017 07:21:00 +0000

We are (temporarily) back after a long hiatus! What triggers this action is Git Merge 2017 that took place in Brussels back in February. This is the first of multiple episodes from the conference.

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First up is Stefan Beller of Google. He is a Git core contributor who has recently been picking up git-submodules to bring them back into shape. We'll hear about his current work on that. It's not the first time Stefan is on the podcast, back in 2015 he spoke about improving the Git protocol.

GitMinutes recording setup in the mysterious "up-side-down room".

Second guest of the day is J Wyman from Microsoft. There's been quite some development on Windows and in Visual Studio since I last had them on the podcast (Martin Woodward in 2013, and Jameson Miller in 2015) now J gives us a well-needed update.

Episode outline:

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:22 Submodules at the contributors' summit?
00:03:07 Why do people hate on submodules so much?
00:04:12 Aren't submodules done and ready?
00:05:25 What is the difference to other multi-repo handlers?
00:06:59 Plan for the future?
00:07:52 Welcome J Wyman
00:08:17 What were the highlights from the contributors' summit?
00:08:54 What do you do at Microsoft?
00:10:22 What are the issues with switching away from libgit2?
00:11:21 Are you still using libgit2 anywhere?
00:13:10 How do you use core Git?
00:14:16 Which of the discussed Git improvements are most interesting?
00:15:07 Who contributes to Git from Microsoft?
00:16:18 Anything else I should ask you about?
00:17:43 Outro

Intro script:

As you may or may not know, during the Git Merge conference, which is sort of a user-oriented happening, there is a less known event taking place called the Git Contributor Summit, where many of the contributors to Git itself get together to talk core development, face to face. This is a gold mine for GitMinutes interviews, and this is the third Git-Merge I’ve gone to with my wife’s trusty singstar microphones.
I got a total of 8 interviews, and it’s all top-notch quality talk with core contributors and people with some really hefty ideas on how to bring Git forward in the years to come. AGAIN Git Merge was a place to talk about scaling Git, but we also discussed how to get more diverse contributions into Git itself, and how to advance the current world state of discussions and reviews *around* commits. You’ll hear more about that in the coming episodes.

For the first of the two interviews in this episode, I grabbed Stefan Beller from Google. He is a seasoned Git-Merge participant and core contributor. You may remember that I interviewed him two years ago. At the contributor summit this year he brought up one of the most hated (and perhaps also most loved) parts of Git itself: submodules!

After that I talk to J Wyman from Microsoft about how they are now actually using the full Git core from within Visual Studio, among many interesting things he has to report from Redmond.

GitMinutes #40: Git Merge 2016

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:22:00 +0000

Christian Couder went to Git Merge 2016 and recorded some interviews there for the podcast.

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Here are the interviewees from the conference, all in this one episode:

Roberto Tyley, The Guardian

Karen Sijbrandij, TrainTool

Lars Schneider, Autodesk

Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij, GitLab

Tim Pettersen, Atlassian

Michael Haggerty, GitHub

Job van der Voort, GitLab

Carlos Martín Nieto, GitHub

GitMinutes #39: Git Merge 2015 Part 5

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 08:58:00 +0000

This is the fifth and final episode from Git-Merge 2015!

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Alexandra Tritz

Rick Olson

GitHub
Homepage
Building a Git Extension with First Principles (his Git LFS talk at the conference)
By the way, friend of the show, Roberto Tyley has released support for LFS in the BFG repo cleaner.

Jeff "Peff" King

GitHub
Homepage
Git + SFC Status Update
Wilhelm Bierbaum's talk about Git at Twitter
We talked about alternative ways to contribute to Git itself without sending patches to the mailing list. Since a few months, there is a way: https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/
We couldn't find that mail with the overview of Git performance issues. Sorry!

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GitMinutes #38: Git Merge 2015 Part 4

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:53:00 +0000

This is the fourth part from our trip to Git-Merge 2015!

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Roberto Tyley

Twitter, Google+, GitHub
The BFG Repo Cleaner
Git Large File Storage (Git LFS)
BFG supporting LFS early release
Prout looks after your pull requests, tells you when they're live
The Git LFS talk at the conference by Rick Olson
GitMinutes #06: Roberto Tyley on Rewriting History

During the conference, there was a lot of discussion regarding how the Git project could attract more users by allowing GitHub-style pull requests into their patch-based mailing list. Later Roberto offered a solution to the problem: submitGit.

Nicola Paolucci

Jameson Miller

Episode outline

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:19 Roberto Tyley

00:08:27 Nicola Paolucci

00:17:19 Jameson Miller

00:27:38 Outro

GitMinutes #37: Git Merge 2015 Part 3

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 21:49:00 +0000

This is the third part from our trip to Git-Merge 2015!

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Stefan Beller

Google+

Robert van Haaren

Twitter
GitHub
Referenced talk: Teaching People Git, Emma Jane Hogbin Westby

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason

Episode outline:

00:00:00 Intro
00:02:39 Stefan Beller
00:10:03 Intro
00:15:17 Robert van Haaren
00:18:44 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
00:41:27 Outro

GitMinutes #36: Git Merge 2015 Part 2

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Tue, 26 May 2015 21:16:00 +0000

This is the second part from our trip to Git-Merge 2015! Since we published part one, the recorded talks from the conference are now online at git-merge.com.

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Arthur Schreiber

Junio Hamano

Blog
Google+
Git at Google (Dave Borowitz' talk from the conference on YouTube)
GitHub's new large file support (Rick Olson's talk)

Vicent Marti

Outline

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:54 Arthur Schreiber

00:06:04 Junio Hamano

00:10:19 Vicent Marti

00:26:24 Outro

GitMinutes #35: Git Merge 2015 Part 1

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 04 May 2015 22:02:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to various people at Git-Merge 2015! This is the first of a total of 5 parts from the conference.

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In this part we talk to:

Matthieu Moy, about Google Summer of Code projects
Homepage, GitHub

Christian Couder, about Git Rev News
Homepage

Carlos Martín Nieto, about libgit2

GitHub

Twitter

Outline:

00:00:00 Welcome, intro
00:03:25 Matthieu Moy
00:05:33 Second part with Matthieu, about GSoC
00:11:03 Christian Couder
00:15:05 Carlos Martin
00:23:58 Outro

GitMinutes #34: Tim Caswell on js-git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:56:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Tim Caswell. He is the creator of js-git, alongside a lot of other really interesting projects.

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Links:

Tim on Google+, GitHub, Twitter
Tim's homepage
howtonode.org
js-git
Tedit - Git based development environment
Tedit as webapp, Chrome app
The latest Tedit demo
wheaty - JS-Git based application hosting platform
rye - A Git based publishing platform implemented in lua
Luvit Asynchronous I/O for Lua, IRC channel is #Luvit on Freenode
Discussion on incorporating js-git in nodeOS/npm
git-html5 powers Tailor, an alternative to Tedit
Google's dev kit chrome app
NW.js formerly known as node-webkit
Scott Hanselman interviewed Paul Betts about Atom Shell

More background material about Tim:

In-depth interview with Tim (October 2013)
Tim guesting on JSJabber #101 (March 2014)
Tim guesting on the ChangeLog #124 (July 2014)

Episode outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:09 Bio, welcome
00:02:26 Tell us about your background
00:03:39 How come you drifted from Node to Lua recently?
00:05:46 What is the use-case for Lua?
00:07:15 What does Luvit add to Lua?
00:08:39 Jumping back to Git, what is your personal VCS experience?
00:13:03 Can you tell me more about the CORS headers issue at the Git hosting services?
00:15:21 What was the plan for js-git after that?
00:17:16 What was the goal of Tedit?
00:19:07 Where do you store the contents in the browser itself?
00:23:20 What is the current state of tedit/js-git?
00:25:55 In summary, what came out of js-git in the end?
00:26:33 What features does Tedit have?
00:27:31 Is js-git too heavy-weight to be embedded in a Git hosting tool?
00:29:04 Why aren't more companies jumping over js-git to make use of it as a Git-starter tool?
00:30:31 Then let's talk about how companies could use js-git or any of these components
00:36:53 Why can you store blobs without commits on GitHub?
00:40:26 Isn't Git in the browser sort of inevitable?
00:41:56 What do people do these days to develop on Chromebooks/browsers?
00:43:23 Other than service-workers, what would you need in order to fulfill the vision of js-git?
00:44:40 Can't you get access to the file-system in HTML5?
00:46:33 What should have been the master plan to complete js-git/tedit?
00:50:41 What would you want to happen to js-git while you're busy elsewhere?
00:52:28 Some js-git vs libgit2 talk
00:59:54 Is Google Dev Kit a replacement for Tedit?
01:01:02 Clear up different kinds of Chrome-based apps
01:04:31 What is the future of js-git?
01:06:15 Any questions I forgot to ask you?
01:06:43 Anything you would like to promote?
01:08:55 Where can people find you online?
01:09:14 What is your favorite Git Pro Tip?
01:10:17 Thank you for coming onto the show!

GitMinutes #33: Thom Parkin on Mastering Git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:00:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Thom Parkin about his new video course on mastering Git, and other things interesting for those who want to improve their Git skills.

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Thom on Github, Twitter, Sitepoint
Git Fundamentals book
Learnable: Introduction to Nitrous.io
nitrous.io (for hosted development sandbox)
ScreenHero (for remote pairing)
Beegit (authoring platform)
Mastering Git* on Packt Publishing

Get Thom's "Mastering Git" Video Tutorial for 50% off, on the Packt Publishing website if you use the Discount Code GITMASTER2015. This offer will only last a limited time.

* Note that there is a different video course published in 2011 with the same title: McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git.

How to find lost stashes
During a discussion of git-lost-found (now deprecated in favor of git fsck --lost-found), we asked how to find dropped stashes. git fsck --lost-found will indeed show these as well, although you have to inspect them yourself to identify which came from stash.

Episode outline
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:25 Bio/welcome
00:02:56 Tell us about your background
00:04:14 What is your experience with VCS?
00:05:47 You have a video course out about Git. Tell us about it!
00:06:28 What is SitePoint?
00:12:32 A video course on/by Packt?
00:13:09 Tell us more about the structure of your video course.
00:15:39 You had your son do the graphical artistry?
00:16:16 Always interesting to see how Git is visualized
00:18:11 Let's talk about nitrous.io
00:30:09 Tangent: Installing GIt on different OSes
00:32:10 Any other things from your video course you would like to discuss?
00:33:20 How do I find lost commits?
00:35:45 Don't stashes appear in the reflog?
00:40:11 What are the other "Gititudes"?
00:45:37 Crafting history, commit messages, squashing vs merging?
01:00:29 How much Git teaching is still left to do in the world?
01:04:13 Where can people find you online?
01:04:58 What is your favorite Git pro tip?
01:05:43 Thank you for coming onto the show!
01:05:50 Outro
01:06:36 Bonus: Head in the closet?

GitMinutes #32: Adam Spiers on git-deps

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:54:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Adam Spiers about git-deps, a tool he made for analyzing dependencies between commits.

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git-deps issues/enhancements mentioned

Technologies used in git-deps

Misc.

Episode outline

00:00:00 Episode meta, sponsor, etc
00:01:40 Bio, welcome Adam
00:02:08 Tell us how you ended up here
00:05:41 What do you do at SUSE, or about the version control there
00:07:08 What do you think Git got right compared to other tools historically?
00:13:53 Tell us about your involvement with the Git project
00:19:55 What's it like to get code reviewed by the Git mailing list?
00:21:15 Your contribution is git check-ignore?
00:23:47 Tell us about git-deps
00:26:03 Explain these dependencies between commits
00:35:29 Is the dependency analysis made at runtime?
00:38:55 Can you use git-deps as an early-warning system for discovering conflicts?
00:48:23 Case in point: GUI tool for doing rebase --onto
00:51:14 How could git-deps be used in a GUI (musings)
00:54:53 Honorary mention of ungit
00:57:37 Would it be possible to use it in a tool to detect conflicts between unmerged branches?
01:01:27 Any plans or visions for the future of git-deps?
01:03:26 Tell us quickly about the tech-stack running under git-deps
01:05:42 Aren't you using node?
01:07:19 Is it open for contributions?
01:09:34 Anything you would like to promote?
01:13:52 What is your favorite Git Pro Tip?

GitMinutes #31: Mary Rose Cook on Gitlet

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:27:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Mary Rose Cook about her recent experimental implementation of Git in JavaScript: Gitlet. We also talk about all kinds of things around understanding Git, and teaching it.

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Mary's homepage
Mary on GitHub, Twitter
Mary's speech to new Hacker-Schoolers
Gitlet
Gitlet annotated source code
Learn Git Branching (interactive in the browser)
Try Git on try.github.io
Docco, the annotated source documentation tool
We should have talked about Ungit, but we didn't. Teaser: It will be mentioned in the next episode!

Here's a rough outline of questions asked:

00:00:46 Welcome to the show
00:01:18 Tell us your background
00:03:02 Do you teach Git at Hacker school?
00:03:49 Is Hacker School for programmers who want to get better?
00:04:37 Is Hacker School remote?
00:04:56 What does it cost?
00:06:25 Would you accept anyone who already has a job?
00:07:07 Is the Hacker School concept a common thing?
00:08:33 Any links for those who want to learn more about Hacker School?
00:08:51 What your Git experience?
00:10:09 How were you using Git/GitHub?
00:10:33 When/why did you start planning Gitlet?
00:12:21 What is Gitlet?
00:13:45 Can you install it and use it as a normal Git client?
00:14:38 What does it lack compared to the real Git?
00:16:04 Could you make it production ready if you outsourced the inner operations to libgit2?
00:18:12 Didn't the Learn Git Branching already implement Git in browser?
00:19:37 How did implementing Gitlet change the way you teach GIt?
00:21:08 Would I be a better Git teacher if I taught people the internals instead of the porcelain?
00:26:31 When should people who know Git take the next step to learn it deeper?
00:30:18 Why is it safer to do fetch before you go on an airplane?
00:31:01 Doesn't pull just update current branch while fetch gets everything?
00:32:10 Git fetch vs git pull
00:33:39 How can I get people to avoid merging origin/master to master?
00:39:53 Talk about the repeating patterns you found inside the Git operations
00:47:42 Talk about the beautifully annotated source code of Gitlet
00:52:50 Do you feel a lot of Git internals have leaked out in the user interface?
00:54:58 How can git reset and checkout be the same command for so different things?
00:57:53 Is it the same thing with git reset?
00:59:08 What would be your ideal Git tool?
01:01:54 Any plans for the future?
01:03:21 Anything you'd like to promote?
01:03:40 Where can people find you online?
01:04:00 What is your favorite Git pro tip?
01:04:43 Thank you for coming onto the show!

GitMinutes #30: Luca Milanesio on Gerrit Code Review

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 09:24:00 +0000

This is GitMinutes episode 30 where I’m talking to Luca Milanesio, a seasoned Gerrit contributor, and the co-founder of GerritForge.

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You may know Gerrit as being the code-review tool that powers some of the largest open source projects out there today, like Android, Chrome and the Eclipse foundation. It’s used by big companies like Google, Sony, Ericsson and many others. It’s a very powerful tool where you can push up your suggested changes and have them reviewed naturally, and you can also get feedback from continuous integration tools like Jenkins to make sure that your suggested changes don’t break the build. And Gerrit is the main thing we’ll talk about today.

Links:

Luca, GitEnterprise (blog, GitHub, Twitter, Facebook)
Use the Force, Luca (article on InfoQ)
Learning Gerrit Code Review (Luca's book)
GerritForge
GitEnterprise
Luca’s InfoQ talk on Gerrit
Introducing GerritHub, Gerrit Code Review on GitHub (video)
Continuous Integration Entwicklungs Workflow (Python, GerritHub, Jenkins) (video)
Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (blog post)
Scaling Source Control at Facebook (video with the same message)
The infamous force push (mailing list discussion)

Luca's Git pro-tip:

Use your Git local repopository as your journal and your Git commits as the explicit, simple and useful phrases of it. Before pushing, do a git rebase -i to review, re-organise and give sense to your Git history.

Outline/questions (if you think this is useful, let me know):

0:00	Welcome, intro
1:14	Thanks to DigitalOcean for sponsoring this episode!
2:33	Welcome to the show, Luca.
3:29	Tell us about the force push
5:10	Tell us how you ended up where you are today
7:06	What is gitenterprise.com
8:19	Is GitEnterprise like GitHub for companies?
14:50	Lets come back to codereview later
15:23	Is GerritHub = GitEnterprise = GerritForge?
17:39	Can everyone use GerritHub for Github stuff?
18:34	Are the GitHub repositories used as the backend for Github?
23:32	Let's take a step back and look at Gerrit from the perspective of a beginner
31:23	For which teams is Gerrit the right choice?
36:09	What about teams coming directly from SVN or something else starting with Git and Gerrit at the same time?
41:40	What are Topics about?
44:53	Where are the topics managed? Where is the master record?
46:01	I definitely see the need for topics with multi repo or Jenkins jobs
49:05	Is Gerrit a good choice if you have multiple interdependent repositories then?
51:12	About Facebooks big mercurial infrastructure
51:38	Gerrit will give you the advantages that Faceboo wanted, and smaller repos
53:30	How do you review topics within Gerrit compared to traditional commits?
58:42	Are multiple interdependent changes merged in one go or one commit at a time?
59:56	We went a bit off course there, topics are very interesting :)
1:00:28	Can you talk about the community and what's going on there?
1:02:41	Oh, Spotify is also using Gerrit?
1:08:22	Traditional code review is more blame game...
1:09:54	Gerrit style review is actually lowers the barrier for daring to submitting patches..
1:15:31	Pair programming vs Code Review
1:19:05	How to learn/introduce Gerrit in a company
1:23:58	Any questions I forgot to as you? (How the force push happened)
1:25:34	Anything you'd like to promote?
1:26:57	Let people know how they can get in touch with you.
1:27:17	Tell us your favorite Git pro-tip.

GitMinutes #29: James Moger on GitBlit

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 19 May 2014 06:03:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk to James Moger, the author of GitBlit, an open-source Java-powered Git repository manager.

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This episode of GitMinutes is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Sign up using the promo-code GITMINUTES10 to receive 10$ worth of credit. Want to see how you can run GitBlit on your own DigitalOcean droplet? There's a screencast for that:

See how to set up GitBlit on DigitalOcean

Links:

Things we mentioned:

James' pro-tips:

Some things we didn't talk about, but I'd like to mention:

Wikimedia is a big GitBlit user. So is CentOS.
James wrote about the early story of GitBlit on the mailing list some years back
I wrote a couple of blog posts about GitBlit for the 1.0 release

Extra pro-tip: "git fetch -p". It stands for prune. Will remove tracking refs from your clone that no longer exist in the remote but it will NOT remove any of your local branches. It's a useful shortcut for cleaning up your clone so you can GC to reclaim space.

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GitMinutes #28: Johannes Schindelin on Git for Windows

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 06:02:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Johannes Schindelin from the msysgit project, a tool used for building Git for Windows.

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Johannes is a mathematician with a degree in genetics. In his day job, he supports biologists with image processing and analysis. He is involved in a number of Open Source projects and he co-maintains Git for Windows with Sebastian Schuberth, Pat Thoyts and Erik Faye-Lund. He is from Germany, but currently lives in the Mid-West of the US.

Note: We briefly discussed libgit2 being licensed as BSD. This is not the case anymore: It has switched to GPLv2 with a linking exception,

Links:

Johannes on Google+, GitHub
Johannes' first OSS project: LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient
(Fancy redesigned) MsysGit homepage
Git for Windows wiki
Mailing list/forum
The “garden shears”
Explanation what the “garden shears” are all about
The git-svn ref issue
The newly redesigned msysgit homepage sources
Interactive rebase with Eclipse EGit
Interactive rebase with SourceTree (this was released right after we recorded)
Installing Git for Windows from within Visual Studio (video)

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GitMinutes #27: Stefan Saasen from Atlassian

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:10:00 +0000

In this episode I’m talking to Stefan Saasen from Atlassian. We focus mainly on Stash, which is their on-premise Git repository manager, but we’ll also touch on their other products to see how they all work together.

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Stefan is the development lead for Atlassian Stash. He has worked on Atlassian Confluence, later with the OnDemand authentication system and finally on Stash, their Git hosting solution. He’s responsible for migrating the Confluence team from Subversion to Git, as well as a large number of Atlassian OnDemand customers.

Links:

Stefan's blog post Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up
Discussion about making Git more thread-safe on the mailing list
Vote for STASH-2469: Include Mercurial (Hg) support in Stash (245 votes at the time of writing, making it currently the top most voted issue).
GitMinutes #22: Alexander Kitaev about SubGit
GitMinutes #20: Mick Wever on Migrating to Git (mentions SubGit)
The essence of branch-based workflows
All Stefan's posts on the Atlassian blog
Atlassian's Git resources
All Atlassian blog posts tagged with Git

Favorite Git pro tips:

Extend Git with git extras and git activity.

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GitMinutes #26: Campbell Barton on Tricky SVN Migrations

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 07:07:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Campbell Barton from the Blender Foundation about how they were able to migrate from a very complicated SVN setup to Git.

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Links:

The Blender foundation

Blender's migration using reposurgeon:

Reposurgeon, developed by Eric S. Raymond and Julien Rivaud
How reposurgeon wins (features, compares with other tools)
Main Blender migration repository
Blender migration readme
Blender addons - good example of a small repo
The git submodule issue we ran into

Blender's new issue/patch tracker:

Phabricator (issue tracker from Facebook)
Phabricator Arcanist (command line tool)
Blender's Phabricator instance

"Famous" Git migrations/inspiration:

Get in touch with Campbell/Blender:

The Blender Network
Blender Stack Exchange
You can reach Campbell via email on ideasman42 [at] gmail.com
The Blender Podcast

This week's pro-tip:

List all files ever:

git log --all --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=A | sort --unique -

See the Blender migration readme for more handy one-liners.

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GitMinutes #25: Sytse Sijbrandij from GitLab

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:11:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk to Sytse Sijbrandij, co-founder of GitLab, a company providing services around the open source Git repo manager of the same name.

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Links:

Pro-tips:

Use git bisect to find when bugs were introduced
Git goodness in oh-my-zsh
git subtree (or filter-branch with subtree)
Easier Git URLs by configuring SSH

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GitMinutes #24: Zoran Zaric on Backups with Bup

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:11:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk to Zoran Zaric about how to make backups with Bup, a backup system loosely based on Git.

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Links:

bup homepage, design-notes, hacking instructions
bup mailing list (google groups)
IRC channel is #bup on freenode
Zoran on GitHub, Twitter, Google+, homepage
Thomas mentioned a script for storing mysql dumps in regular git: mygitbackup
Alternatives: BackupPC, rsnapshot, duplicity
Zoran's recorded bup presentation from 3 years ago, slides
Zoran's photography Facebook page

Update:

Zoran elaborates on bup's two server modes

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GitMinutes #23: Chris Aniszczyk on Git and Open Source

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:21:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Chris Aniszczyk. He’s head of open source at Twitter, and he’s been heavily involved with the Eclipse foundation where he sits on the board of directors. Over the last years he’s been guiding Eclipse’s migration to Git while being very active in the JGit/EGit projects.

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Links:

Chris on Twitter, GitHub, blog/homepage
Chris: 100 Days: Eclipse Foundation Moves to Git
Chris: Eclipse Foundation Migrated to Git
Chris: Apache and Politics Over Code?
Mike Milinkovich: Embracing Social Coding at Eclipse
The Vert.x debacle begins
Vert.x preparing move to Eclipse
Eclipse’s GitHub mirrors
Open source at Twitter on Twitter, homepage, GitHub:
Wired article: Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon
Linux-foundation and the automotive industry
Docker
Apache Mesos

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GitMinutes #22: Alexander Kitaev about SubGit

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:27:00 +0000

In this episode we are joined by Alexander Kitaev, founder of TMate software, the company behind SubGit, a tool that helps you migrate from Subversion to Git with bi-directional mirroring. We also talk a lot about the good parts of Subversion.

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GitMinutes #21: Karoline and Arve on Using Git in a .Net Shop

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 05:58:00 +0000

This episode we're talking to Karoline Klever and Arve Systad from the Norwegian company Epinova, working with a .Net based CMS called EPiServer. They're well on their way migrating to Git and I wanted to hear how it's working out for them.

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Links:

Arve on Twitter, GitHub, homepage
Karoline on Twitter, GitHub, blog

Tools used at Epinova:

SourceTree (Git GUI tool)
Atlassian Stash (repository manager)

Resources used for migrating to git:

Resources for learning Git:

Other things we talked about

What I totally forgot to mention was that there are a couple of alternative command line tools for Windows that can wrap Powershell, or any other shell inside:

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GitMinutes #20: Mick Wever on Migrating to Git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:38:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk to Mick Wever about how they migrating a big team of developers from Subversion to Git.

Mick has been involved with various open source projects since ancient times, and during the day time he’s working for FINN, which is Norway’s dominating classifieds website. The company has a very interesting story, and we investigate how and why they were able to make the switch to Git.

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Links:

Apache Tiles
Apache’s Git mirrors
Atlassian's article on migration from SVN to Git
SubGit Stash plugin
The Flow of Change (techtalk from Google)
GitHub Flow vs Git Flow
Practical API Design (book)
NetBeans API blog

Configure git pull to rebase:

git config --global branch.master.rebase true
git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always

Mick's favorite log format:

git config --global alias.lol "log --follow --find-copies-harder --graph --abbrev=4 --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %Cgreen%ai %n %C(bold blue)%aN%Creset %B'"

A lot of other nice aliases and configuration tips we talked about can be found at the bottom of the FINN blog post under the section 'Tips and tricks for beginners…'.

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GitMinutes #19: Marcin Kuzminski from RhodeCode

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:52:00 +0000

Today we are talking to Marcin Kuzminski, a Python programmer with a passion for version control systems. He is the co-founder of RhodeCode, an open-source Git/Mercurial hosting provider.

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Links from the show:

RhodeCode (twitter, blog, help, sources)
vcs-lib on github
Marcin on twitter, google+
I mentioned a .Net based Git server: Bonobo is its name
How to store your HTTP(S) Git password encrypted on Windows (updated)

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GitMinutes #18: Tair and Tero from Deveo

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 04:00:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Tair Assimov and Tero Parviainen from Deveo.

Deveo is a new breed of software development and collaboration platform to host and manage your source code. Instead of giving all possible SCM features, Deveo's goal is to enable 3rd party developers extend the platform with consistent applications.

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Links:

Tero adds: "When you sign up for Deveo, there is one hidden App I mentioned, “mdoc”: When you have a Git repository in Deveo, with Mdoc you can create Markdown formatted files and the Deveo Web Client will render the contents and outline. Be aware, this is an experimental app built in couple of days to get to know Deveo when I joined the team."

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GitMinutes #17: Nicholas Zakas on How Companies Are Using Git(Hub)

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:31:00 +0000

Today we are talking to Nicholas Zakas. He is a front-end engineer, author, and speaker working at Box, and before that, he worked at Yahoo! for almost five years, where he was front-end tech lead for the Yahoo! homepage and a contributor to the YUI library. He regularly blogs, and for a recent blog-post he conducted a little research on how people use GitHub in a company internal context, so I invited him onto the show to ask about his findings.

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Links:

Nicholas' homepage/blog, Google+, Twitter, GitHub
His article about how people are using GitHub
Box
Underscore vs Lo-Dash "controversy" (I heard about it on JavaScript Jabbers)
Unfuddle (GitHub alternative with more stuff)
Some tools for cleaning up old branches
Nicholas' latest project: ESLint

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GitMinutes #16: Joey Hess on git-annex

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:04:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Joey Hess, the inventor of git-annex and many other useful tools you may be familiar with. Joey has worked on Debian since the 90’s, including building the Debian installer. We already mentioned git-annex many times on this podcast, so most of you should know it is a tool for tracking large external files from Git repositories. We also touch on a lot of other topics, including KickStarter, Haskell and PRISM.

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Links:

Git annex:

Haskell related:

Update 2: A listener pointed out that the Apple Store does not automatically reject GPL projects. Since then, VLC has become available in the AppStore again.

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GitMinutes #15: Ryan Hodson on Learning Git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 05:36:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Ryan Hodson, the man behind Ry's Git Tutorial.

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Links:

Installing Git manual web pages

If you want to see the help for git-status, you can do either of these:

git status --help

git help status

On Windows/Msysgit, the default is to always open the web page. If you are on Mac or Linux, you can append -w to the above commands.

If you always want to see the web pages (so you can leave out -w), you can do:

git config --global help.format web

On my Mac, Lynx was the default browser for some reason, so I had to configure it to use the OSX `open` command (for html files) instead:

git config --global web.browser open

On my Ubuntu machine, I had to configure it like this to use Google Chrome (Firefox was default):

git config --global web.browser google-chrome

I also had to clone the docs into this location (not the one according to the GitHub help pages above):

/usr/share/doc/git/html/

See git-web--browse docs for more info.

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GitMinutes #14: Pablo Santos on PlasticSCM, GitSync and SemanticMerge

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 05:26:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Pablo Santos from Codice Software about Plastic SCM, GitSync and SemanticMerge.

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Links:

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GitMinutes #13: Richard Hartmann on Managing Your Homedir with vcsh

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:44:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk to Richard Hartmann about vcsh, a Git-based tool for managing your home directory and configuration.

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Links:

vcsh GitHub page (with docs)
Richard's homepage and talks
IRC channel: #vcs-home on irc.oftc.net
Mailing list: vcs-home@lists.madduck.net
mr (tool for managing multiple repositories)
metamonger (keeping file metadata as JSON)

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GitMinutes #12: Git Merge 2013 Part 4

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:04:00 +0000

This is the fourth and final set of interviews from Git Merge 2013 in Berlin.

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Saturday's Drinkup, photo is CC-BY Thomas Rast

Big thanks to Viaboxx GmbH paying for my trip to Git Merge!

Michael Haggerty (github, homepage)
About the git imerge project
Michael's lightning talk at Git Merge

Christian Couder (homepage/presentations)
Enjoy fighting regressions with git bisect (article, slides)
Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"
Christian's lightning talk at Git Merge

Michael Diers
Elego, doing consulting on Git & processes

Valentin Haenel (github)
German Git book
Git Meetup Berlin

Carlos Martín Nieto (github)
libgit2

Nico von Geyso (github)
pygit2
Dulwich (pure Python Git implementation)

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GitMinutes #11: Git Merge 2013 Part 3

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 05:40:00 +0000

This is the third set of interviews from the Git Merge 2013 conference in Berlin.

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Bird eye of the coffee corner. Photo CC-BY Thomas Rast

Alfonso Alba García (twitter)
The Spanish Git community, AprendeGit.

Andrey Devyatkin (google+, twitter)
About large Git migrations at Ericsson

Jens Lehmann (github)
About git submodules, enhancements.
Update: Jens and Heiko's lightning talk at Git Merge

Christian Halstrick (google+), SAP
About JGit. Eclipse’s Gerrit instance.
Scaling Up JGit (Shawn Pearce's presentation from EclipseCon 2013)

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GitMinutes #10: Git Merge 2013 Part 2

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 27 May 2013 07:16:00 +0000

This is the second set of interviews from Git Merge 2013 in Berlin.

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First guest of the day, Scott Chacon, with the Berliner Dom in the background.

Photo CC-BY Thomas Rast

Scott Chacon (homepage, twitter, github), works at Github
About Git community. GitTogether.

Mislav Marohnić (homepage, twitter, github)
About the passion of Git users. Hub. Git tips. Merge vs rebase.
Update: Mislav's lightning talk about Hub at Git Merge

Thomas Rast (homepage, google+, github)
On Git internals, git-notes, git log -L, developing Git.

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GitMinutes #09: Git Merge 2013 Part 1

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 20 May 2013 08:04:00 +0000

Last week I went to the Git Merge conference in Berlin! I brought my improvised digital recorder (a Nexus 7 connected to a pair of PlayStation Singstar mikes), and recorded a good few interviews, enough to make four episodes for GitMinutes, of which this one is the first.

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Edit: I mistakenly say in the intro that the episode is recorded on the 10th of April. Note that the actual date of the interviews was 10th of May.

Dirt-cheap digital recorder. Photo by Roberto Tyley

Here are the Git repositories with the notes that were taken during the conference.

The guests in this episode:

Maximilian Haack (twitter), developer at PropertyBase.

About GitMerge and his thesis for visualizing Git

Ben Straub (twitter, github, homepage). Works at Github.

About libgit2. Here's the talk from Vicent Marti we were talking about

Update: Ben's lightning talk at Git Merge and Vicent's talk again

Jeff “Peff” King (homepage), Works at Github.

About Git core development, improving performance.

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GitMinutes #08: Drew Neil on Vim and Workflow

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:08:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Drew Neil. He is the man behind Vimcasts, and the book Practical Vim. A couple of years back he did a whole bunch of screen-casts on how to use Git from inside of Vim, and this is what made me want to get him on the show.

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Links:

An example of using GitHub’s compare feature to tell the story of a codebase:

Presidents (Follow the ‘view diff’ links in the README file to see the codebase evolve)

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GitMinutes #07: Martin Geisler on Mercurial

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 06 May 2013 05:47:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk to Martin Geisler, a long time contributor to the Mercurial project.

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Martin is a software developer since 15 years, focusing mainly on Python. I met him at a conference some years back where I talked about Git-SVN, and he talked about Mercurial, and we got to have some really interesting discussions on Git vs Mercurial, some of which we were able to recreate for recording this episode.

Links and resources from the show:

Martin's homepage (redirects to his Google+ account at the time of writing)
The two frameworks Martin mentioned for Python development:

Mercurial
Steve Losh's Git Koans
Steve Losh explaining the diff between Mercurial and Git
CodePlex announced Mercurial support
Bitbucket announced Git support
Google Code announces Git support
Announcing Kiln Harmony
Facebook's discussion on the Git mailing list
Mercurial/Git integration with HgGit
JavaHG
Mercurial's Command Server
Mercurial Phases
Mercurial Changeset Evolution

Some other useful things we didn't talk about:

Hints for would-be Mercurial power users
Revision sets and file sets (built-in query languages that let you select revisions and files)
Mercurial for Git users

Finally, new users might find a minimal ~/.hgrc file with my favorite extensions useful:

[ui]
username = Your Name <your.email@example.net>

[extensions]
# Color output and show progress bars in your terminal
color =
progress =

# Pipe output into a pager
pager =

# Enable 'hg rebase' and 'hg pull --rebase'
rebase =

# Enable 'hg histedit', like 'git rebase -i'
histedit =

# Enable 'hg record', like 'git add -i; git commit'
record =

[pager]
# Set $PAGER or specify the pager to use here:
pager = less -FRX

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GitMinutes #06: Roberto Tyley on Rewriting History

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:56:00 +0000

In this episode, we talk to Roberto Tyley about rewriting history in Git. Roberto is a software developer, formerly at Github, and now at The Guardian. He contributes to various open-source projects, and he is the creator of the BFG Repo-Cleaner which we’ll be talking a lot about today. He’s also the author of Agit, an Android Git client.

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Links:

Roberto’s profile on the Guardian
Blog article about the BFG
Roberto on Github, Twitter
BFG Repo-Cleaner
Agit in the Play store
git-filter-branch
Thomas’ oh-crap-I-committed-my-work-email-into-a-public-repo-fix script
A nice benchmark of BFG vs git-filter-branch:

In particular, note the "if you don't have a Raspberry Pi" punchline in the end!

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GitMinutes #05: Martin Woodward on Visual Studio and TFS with Git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:10:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Martin Woodward about Visual Studio and TFS with Git. We also move through the history of Git on Windows and talk about Microsoft's other Git related business so far.

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Martin is a Senior Program Manager on the Team Foundation Server team at Microsoft. He specializes in the Open Source, Eclipse and Cross-Platform Tooling for TFS. Already before joining Microsoft, he was an MVP, he’s an international speaker, and author on the subject of ALM and TFS.

Links:

Martin’s homapage
Martin on Github
Radio TFS, in particular the episode/show-notes about Git
Thomas' observations/thoughts on Git/Microsoft (neat map of the technologies we talk about in the show)
Hanselminutes: CodePlex supporting Git
Hanselminutes: Git in Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2
Visual Studio Tools for Git

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GitMinutes #04: Marius Mathiesen on Gitorious and Git Infrastructure

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 07:01:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Marius Mathiesen, who is one of the Gitorious developers.

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GitMinutes #03: Richard Schneeman on Git Branches and Workflows

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:49:00 +0000

In this episode we talk to Richard Schneeman, or Schneems, about Git branches and workflows.

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Links:

Schneem's homepage
CodeTriage (Help your favorite open source projects!)
Heroku (Schneems works here)
Schneem's famous GIF pull-request
Schneem’s Git intro (note all the great Rails tutorials in his YouTube channel)
Git Flow vs Github Flow
Contributing to Rails guide (describes the CHANGELOG, etc)

Schneem's favorite git command:

git config -e

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GitMinutes #02: Matthew McCullough on Teaching and Learning Git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:20:00 +0000

In this episode, I talk to Matthew McCullough about the ins and outs of Git teaching/learning, and what Git is actually about.

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Links mentioned:

Matthew's homepage
Matthew on Github, Twitter
GitHub’s training offerings
GitHub Official Teaching Materials (open sourced!)
Ask the GitHub trainers a question
Try Git in the browser (try.github.com)
Git Immersion
GitHub Janky (continuous integration)
Matthew’s books:

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GitMinutes #01: Randal L. Schwartz on the Development of Git

feedback@gitminutes.com (Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:03:00 +0000

In this first episode of GitMinutes, I talk to Randal L. Schwarz about the history of Git, and a lot of other things like Perl, involuntary Git migrations, the Git community, and his favorite editor!

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Links that we mention:

FLOSS Weekly (Randal's podcast, recommended)

Randal's homepage
Randal on Google+
Randal’s Google TechTalk about Git (2007)
The revised Git talk on Vimeo (2012) (Slides)
Deploying with(out) Git
Repo managers: Gitolite, Gitorious and Gitblit (which I mispronounced as 'libgit', doh)
My tips on sending mail to the Git developer's mailing list
The Git-user mailing list

Some Git commands we talked about:

Nice graphic Git log in console:

git log --oneline --graph --decorate

Update and study history in gitk:

git fetch -p; git pull --rebase; gitk --all

Additionally, I think these are some interesting links to have a look at:

Junio C Hamano aka Gitster's Blog (a nice place to keep up to date with new Git releases)
A Note from the Maintainer (explains some of the Git project's conventions)

You can email comments and feedback to feedback@gitminutes.com, or comment on this blog-post, or get in touch via:

The intro/outro music is provided royalty-free by danosongs.com. Do check them out!

Thanks for listening!

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