Monday, November 4, 2013

GitMinutes #25: Sytse Sijbrandij from GitLab

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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Monday, October 21, 2013

GitMinutes #24: Zoran Zaric on Backups with Bup

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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Monday, September 23, 2013

GitMinutes #23: Chris Aniszczyk on Git and Open Source

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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Monday, September 16, 2013

GitMinutes #22: Alexander Kitaev about SubGit

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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Monday, September 2, 2013

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

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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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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Monday, August 26, 2013

GitMinutes #20: Mick Wever on Migrating to Git

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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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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Monday, August 19, 2013

GitMinutes #19: Marcin Kuzminski from RhodeCode

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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