GitMinutes #18: Tair and Tero from Deveo

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:

• Deveo homepage, blog, twitter
• Deveo Developer docs
• ROI calculation
• Usability tests we’ve done
• Version Control Weekly newsletter, archives
• Peter Cooper's various newsletters for developers
• Libgit2 Database Backends
• Shallow and sparse Git clones

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)

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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