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

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

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:

• Joey's homepage
• etckeeper
• ikiwiki
• mr (renamed to myrepos)

Git annex:

• git-annex
• git-annex assistant, blog, kickstarter project (now closed) 
• git annex and my mom (blog post)
• Update: Extended campaign to support continued development!

Haskell related:

• Haskell on Android
• Compiling Haskell to JavaScript

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

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

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Links:

• RyPress.com
• Ry’s Git Tutorial 
• Try Git
• Peter Cottle's "Learn Git Branching"
• The Git Users' Mailing List
• Git Flow
• GitHub Flow
• Treehouse (online learning)
• Atlassian’s Git blog posts
• GitHub's Free Office Hours
• Jinja templates

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

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

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Links:

• Plastic SCM
• GitSync
• SemanticMerge
• Configuring SemanticMerge for Git mergetool on Windows
• YouTube channel

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

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

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

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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