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Things we mentioned:
- Redmine project management tool
- JGit GitServlet
- Gerrit code review
- Apache Wicket web framework
- Laika makes cool animated movies (and uses GitBlit)
- GitBlit demo on dev.gitblit.com
- GitBlit on Docker
- Screencast demoing the new GitBlit tickets
- Docs on GitBlit tickets
- How to use handle tickets (with the Barnum script)
- Redis NoSQL database
- Using GitBlit as pure repository viewer (like “git instaweb”)
- Slack: team communiation tool
- GitBlit Slack Plugin
- FlurFunk team collaboration (abandoned experiment)
- pf4j: KISS plugin architecture for Java
- Guava Caches
- Bintray hosts the GitBlit downloads
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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