GitMinutes #06: Roberto Tyley on Rewriting History

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

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

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

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Links:

• Marius’ homepage (@zmalltalker on twitter)
• Gitorious project home page 
• Gitorious, the company/services
• Gitorious blog, Twitter, Identi.ca
• Gitorious community installer download
• Gitorious source
• The Rails user-story controller pattern

GitMinutes #03: Richard Schneeman on Git Branches and Workflows

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

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: 
• Presentation Patterns
• Version Control with Git
• Building and Testing with Gradle

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