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Sunday, February 4, 2018
GitMinutes #46: Jeff King from Git-Merge 2017
In this final episode of GitMinutes, we talk to Jeff “Peff” King at Git-Merge 2017.
We talk about how Git itself changes to tackle the needs of companies and users as Git has to scale more and more. We also talk about how protection of the trademark Git will happen in the future. Unfortunately, my interview with Peff got cut slightly short because of technical difficulties.
Since this is probably the last GitMinutes episode ever, there’s going to be a little sentimental blabbering after the interview, so stay tuned for that if you’re into that stuff, or just read my personal blog post here.
If you want to see what I'm up to next, you can keep track of me on Twitter as @tfnico or on my blog.
For another podcast about Git, check out All Things Git.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
GitMinutes #45: Edward Thomson from Git-Merge 2017
In this episode, we talk to Edward Thomson about his experience at Git Merge 2017. Note that Edward now has his own Git podcast together with Martin Woodward: All Things Git, which I can heartily recommend!
Thursday, February 1, 2018
GitMinutes #44: Josh Triplett on Git-Series
This is GitMinutes episode 44, with another interview from the Git Merge conference in 2017: Josh Triplett is the author of git-series, which is a really cool command line tool for evolving patch series in Git.
Monday, October 2, 2017
GitMinutes #43: Johannes Schindelin on Contributing to Git
In this episode we talk to Git contributor and maintainer of Git for Windows, Johannes Schindelin. He has a lot of thoughts and ideas on development, community and code reviews, especially in open source and especially in the development of Git itself.
We talk to Johannes about the difficulties of contributing to Git itself, and tools that could make the experience more user friendly, like for example public-inbox, which is both a mailing list archive and a Git repository.
- Johannes on Twitter, GitHub
- Git for Windows
- "The End of Gmane?" by its maintainer, Lars Ingebrigtsen
- Git mailing list archives on public-inbox.org
Outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:46 Hello Johannes
00:01:01 What was the most interesting discussion at the dev summit?
00:02:44 How does the mailing list for Git really work
00:03:34 What is Public Inbox?
00:08:14 How can patches be aligned with public inbox topics?
00:14:34 Let's talk about the What's Cooking email
00:20:22 What about tracking patch series that get rewritten?
00:22:05 Gerrit solves this with a change-id, can we do that for the Git mailing list?
00:23:43 What would happen if we allowed HTML mails onto the mailing list?
00:26:54 Should the review take place locally or online?
00:28:09 If we had this standard format for doing reviews, how could we use it otherwise?
00:29:22 How can we make this happen?
00:30:43 Anything else you want to share from the conference?
00:33:03 Outro
00:01:01 What was the most interesting discussion at the dev summit?
00:02:44 How does the mailing list for Git really work
00:03:34 What is Public Inbox?
00:08:14 How can patches be aligned with public inbox topics?
00:14:34 Let's talk about the What's Cooking email
00:20:22 What about tracking patch series that get rewritten?
00:22:05 Gerrit solves this with a change-id, can we do that for the Git mailing list?
00:23:43 What would happen if we allowed HTML mails onto the mailing list?
00:26:54 Should the review take place locally or online?
00:28:09 If we had this standard format for doing reviews, how could we use it otherwise?
00:29:22 How can we make this happen?
00:30:43 Anything else you want to share from the conference?
00:33:03 Outro
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
GitMinutes #42: Erik from Atlassian on Clone Bundles
In this episode I’m talking to Erik van Zeist. He’s a developer from Atlassian BitBucket, and at Git Merge this year, he shared some interesting experiments they have been making using clone bundles, which is a technique from Mercurial that will dramatically improve performance of repository cloning. Now they have also started experimenting with doing clone bundles with Git.
- Erik on twitter
- An article about clone bundles from Erik
- Mozilla on Mercurial bundles
- Mercurial bundle clone extension
- Mail to the Git mailing list on the subject
Outline:
00:01:23 Tell us about clone bundles
00:03:29 Is this a server-side or a client-side extension?
00:04:28 Are you already using it on Bitbucket?
00:04:49 What sort of resources does clone bundles save?
00:06:00 How does it work with the bundle on a CDN and subsequent changes?
00:07:13 How does Mercurial content negotiation differ from Git?
00:08:29 What else do we need to make this work?
00:10:22 How does it work on the client exactly?
00:11:01 How are you going to integrate this with main Git?
00:12:12 Could this be something that the Git client tools should provide?
00:13:55 What did the other Git contributors think about the idea?
00:15:32 Is a clone that was made using clone bundles different from a normal clone?
00:16:46 Is this for pulling or only for initial clone?
00:18:10 Anything else you want to share?
00:19:51 Outro
Monday, May 8, 2017
GitMinutes #41: Stefan Beller and J. Wyman (Git Merge 2017)
We are (temporarily) back after a long hiatus! What triggers this action is Git Merge 2017 that took place in Brussels back in February. This is the first of multiple episodes from the conference.
First up is Stefan Beller of Google. He is a Git core contributor who has recently been picking up git-submodules to bring them back into shape. We'll hear about his current work on that. It's not the first time Stefan is on the podcast, back in 2015 he spoke about improving the Git protocol.
Second guest of the day is J Wyman from Microsoft. There's been quite some development on Windows and in Visual Studio since I last had them on the podcast (Martin Woodward in 2013, and Jameson Miller in 2015) now J gives us a well-needed update.
Episode outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:22 Submodules at the contributors' summit?
00:03:07 Why do people hate on submodules so much?
00:04:12 Aren't submodules done and ready?
00:05:25 What is the difference to other multi-repo handlers?
00:06:59 Plan for the future?
00:07:52 Welcome J Wyman
00:08:17 What were the highlights from the contributors' summit?
00:08:54 What do you do at Microsoft?
00:10:22 What are the issues with switching away from libgit2?
00:11:21 Are you still using libgit2 anywhere?
00:13:10 How do you use core Git?
00:14:16 Which of the discussed Git improvements are most interesting?
00:15:07 Who contributes to Git from Microsoft?
00:16:18 Anything else I should ask you about?
00:17:43 Outro
Intro script:
First up is Stefan Beller of Google. He is a Git core contributor who has recently been picking up git-submodules to bring them back into shape. We'll hear about his current work on that. It's not the first time Stefan is on the podcast, back in 2015 he spoke about improving the Git protocol.
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| GitMinutes recording setup in the mysterious "up-side-down room". |
Episode outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:22 Submodules at the contributors' summit?
00:03:07 Why do people hate on submodules so much?
00:04:12 Aren't submodules done and ready?
00:05:25 What is the difference to other multi-repo handlers?
00:06:59 Plan for the future?
00:07:52 Welcome J Wyman
00:08:17 What were the highlights from the contributors' summit?
00:08:54 What do you do at Microsoft?
00:10:22 What are the issues with switching away from libgit2?
00:11:21 Are you still using libgit2 anywhere?
00:13:10 How do you use core Git?
00:14:16 Which of the discussed Git improvements are most interesting?
00:15:07 Who contributes to Git from Microsoft?
00:16:18 Anything else I should ask you about?
00:17:43 Outro
Intro script:
As you may or may not know, during the Git Merge conference, which is sort of a user-oriented happening, there is a less known event taking place called the Git Contributor Summit, where many of the contributors to Git itself get together to talk core development, face to face. This is a gold mine for GitMinutes interviews, and this is the third Git-Merge I’ve gone to with my wife’s trusty singstar microphones.
I got a total of 8 interviews, and it’s all top-notch quality talk with core contributors and people with some really hefty ideas on how to bring Git forward in the years to come. AGAIN Git Merge was a place to talk about scaling Git, but we also discussed how to get more diverse contributions into Git itself, and how to advance the current world state of discussions and reviews *around* commits. You’ll hear more about that in the coming episodes.
For the first of the two interviews in this episode, I grabbed Stefan Beller from Google. He is a seasoned Git-Merge participant and core contributor. You may remember that I interviewed him two years ago. At the contributor summit this year he brought up one of the most hated (and perhaps also most loved) parts of Git itself: submodules!
After that I talk to J Wyman from Microsoft about how they are now actually using the full Git core from within Visual Studio, among many interesting things he has to report from Redmond.
Monday, April 25, 2016
GitMinutes #40: Git Merge 2016
Christian Couder went to Git Merge 2016 and recorded some interviews there for the podcast.
Here are the interviewees from the conference, all in this one episode:
Roberto Tyley, The Guardian
Karen Sijbrandij, TrainTool
Lars Schneider, Autodesk
Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij, GitLab
Tim Pettersen, Atlassian
Michael Haggerty, GitHub
Job van der Voort, GitLab
Here are the interviewees from the conference, all in this one episode:
Roberto Tyley, The Guardian
Karen Sijbrandij, TrainTool
Lars Schneider, Autodesk
Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij, GitLab
Tim Pettersen, Atlassian
Michael Haggerty, GitHub
Job van der Voort, GitLab
Carlos MartÃn Nieto, GitHub
Friday, October 9, 2015
GitMinutes #39: Git Merge 2015 Part 5
This is the fifth and final episode from Git-Merge 2015!
Alexandra Tritz
Rick Olson
Jeff "Peff" King
Alexandra Tritz
Rick Olson
- GitHub
- Homepage
- Building a Git Extension with First Principles (his Git LFS talk at the conference)
- By the way, friend of the show, Roberto Tyley has released support for LFS in the BFG repo cleaner.
Jeff "Peff" King
- GitHub
- Homepage
- Git + SFC Status Update
- Wilhelm Bierbaum's talk about Git at Twitter
- We talked about alternative ways to contribute to Git itself without sending patches to the mailing list. Since a few months, there is a way: https://submitgit.herokuapp.com/
- We couldn't find that mail with the overview of Git performance issues. Sorry!
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Monday, July 13, 2015
GitMinutes #38: Git Merge 2015 Part 4
This is the fourth part from our trip to Git-Merge 2015!
Roberto Tyley
Nicola Paolucci
Jameson Miller
Roberto Tyley
- Twitter, Google+, GitHub
- The BFG Repo Cleaner
- Git Large File Storage (Git LFS)
- BFG supporting LFS early release
- Prout looks after your pull requests, tells you when they're live
- The Git LFS talk at the conference by Rick Olson
- GitMinutes #06: Roberto Tyley on Rewriting History
Nicola Paolucci
- Homepage, Twitter, blog (at Atlassian)
- Atlassian's 10 year of Git celebrational page
- Git Rev News
- John Garcia's talk at the conference
Jameson Miller
Episode outline
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:19 Roberto Tyley
00:08:27 Nicola Paolucci
00:17:19 Jameson Miller
00:27:38 Outro
Sunday, June 28, 2015
GitMinutes #37: Git Merge 2015 Part 3
This is the third part from our trip to Git-Merge 2015!
Stefan Beller
Robert van Haaren
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Episode outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:39 Stefan Beller
00:10:03 Intro
00:15:17 Robert van Haaren
00:18:44 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
00:41:27 Outro
Stefan Beller
Robert van Haaren
- GitHub
- Referenced talk: Teaching People Git, Emma Jane Hogbin Westby
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Episode outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:39 Stefan Beller
00:10:03 Intro
00:15:17 Robert van Haaren
00:18:44 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
00:41:27 Outro
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
GitMinutes #36: Git Merge 2015 Part 2
This is the second part from our trip to Git-Merge 2015! Since we published part one, the recorded talks from the conference are now online at git-merge.com.
Arthur Schreiber
Junio Hamano
Vicent Marti
Arthur Schreiber
Junio Hamano
- Blog
- Google+
- Git at Google (Dave Borowitz' talk from the conference on YouTube)
- GitHub's new large file support (Rick Olson's talk)
Vicent Marti
Outline
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:54 Arthur Schreiber
00:06:04 Junio Hamano
00:10:19 Vicent Marti
00:26:24 Outro
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
GitMinutes #35: Git Merge 2015 Part 1
In this episode we talk to various people at Git-Merge 2015! This is the first of a total of 5 parts from the conference.
In this part we talk to:
Matthieu Moy, about Google Summer of Code projects
Homepage, GitHub
Christian Couder, about Git Rev News
Homepage
In this part we talk to:
Matthieu Moy, about Google Summer of Code projects
Homepage, GitHub
Christian Couder, about Git Rev News
Homepage
Monday, April 6, 2015
GitMinutes #34: Tim Caswell on js-git
In this episode we talk to Tim Caswell. He is the creator of js-git, alongside a lot of other really interesting projects.
Links:
More background material about Tim:
Episode outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:09 Bio, welcome
00:02:26 Tell us about your background
00:03:39 How come you drifted from Node to Lua recently?
00:05:46 What is the use-case for Lua?
00:07:15 What does Luvit add to Lua?
00:08:39 Jumping back to Git, what is your personal VCS experience?
00:13:03 Can you tell me more about the CORS headers issue at the Git hosting services?
00:15:21 What was the plan for js-git after that?
00:17:16 What was the goal of Tedit?
00:19:07 Where do you store the contents in the browser itself?
00:23:20 What is the current state of tedit/js-git?
00:25:55 In summary, what came out of js-git in the end?
00:26:33 What features does Tedit have?
00:27:31 Is js-git too heavy-weight to be embedded in a Git hosting tool?
00:29:04 Why aren't more companies jumping over js-git to make use of it as a Git-starter tool?
00:30:31 Then let's talk about how companies could use js-git or any of these components
00:36:53 Why can you store blobs without commits on GitHub?
00:40:26 Isn't Git in the browser sort of inevitable?
00:41:56 What do people do these days to develop on Chromebooks/browsers?
00:43:23 Other than service-workers, what would you need in order to fulfill the vision of js-git?
00:44:40 Can't you get access to the file-system in HTML5?
00:46:33 What should have been the master plan to complete js-git/tedit?
00:50:41 What would you want to happen to js-git while you're busy elsewhere?
00:52:28 Some js-git vs libgit2 talk
00:59:54 Is Google Dev Kit a replacement for Tedit?
01:01:02 Clear up different kinds of Chrome-based apps
01:04:31 What is the future of js-git?
01:06:15 Any questions I forgot to ask you?
01:06:43 Anything you would like to promote?
01:08:55 Where can people find you online?
01:09:14 What is your favorite Git Pro Tip?
01:10:17 Thank you for coming onto the show!
Links:
- Tim on Google+, GitHub, Twitter
- Tim's homepage
- howtonode.org
- js-git
- Tedit - Git based development environment
- Tedit as webapp, Chrome app
- The latest Tedit demo
- wheaty - JS-Git based application hosting platform
- rye - A Git based publishing platform implemented in lua
- Luvit Asynchronous I/O for Lua, IRC channel is #Luvit on Freenode
- Discussion on incorporating js-git in nodeOS/npm
- git-html5 powers Tailor, an alternative to Tedit
- Google's dev kit chrome app
- NW.js formerly known as node-webkit
- Scott Hanselman interviewed Paul Betts about Atom Shell
More background material about Tim:
- In-depth interview with Tim (October 2013)
- Tim guesting on JSJabber #101 (March 2014)
- Tim guesting on the ChangeLog #124 (July 2014)
Episode outline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:09 Bio, welcome
00:02:26 Tell us about your background
00:03:39 How come you drifted from Node to Lua recently?
00:05:46 What is the use-case for Lua?
00:07:15 What does Luvit add to Lua?
00:08:39 Jumping back to Git, what is your personal VCS experience?
00:13:03 Can you tell me more about the CORS headers issue at the Git hosting services?
00:15:21 What was the plan for js-git after that?
00:17:16 What was the goal of Tedit?
00:19:07 Where do you store the contents in the browser itself?
00:23:20 What is the current state of tedit/js-git?
00:25:55 In summary, what came out of js-git in the end?
00:26:33 What features does Tedit have?
00:27:31 Is js-git too heavy-weight to be embedded in a Git hosting tool?
00:29:04 Why aren't more companies jumping over js-git to make use of it as a Git-starter tool?
00:30:31 Then let's talk about how companies could use js-git or any of these components
00:36:53 Why can you store blobs without commits on GitHub?
00:40:26 Isn't Git in the browser sort of inevitable?
00:41:56 What do people do these days to develop on Chromebooks/browsers?
00:43:23 Other than service-workers, what would you need in order to fulfill the vision of js-git?
00:44:40 Can't you get access to the file-system in HTML5?
00:46:33 What should have been the master plan to complete js-git/tedit?
00:50:41 What would you want to happen to js-git while you're busy elsewhere?
00:52:28 Some js-git vs libgit2 talk
00:59:54 Is Google Dev Kit a replacement for Tedit?
01:01:02 Clear up different kinds of Chrome-based apps
01:04:31 What is the future of js-git?
01:06:15 Any questions I forgot to ask you?
01:06:43 Anything you would like to promote?
01:08:55 Where can people find you online?
01:09:14 What is your favorite Git Pro Tip?
01:10:17 Thank you for coming onto the show!
Monday, March 16, 2015
GitMinutes #33: Thom Parkin on Mastering Git
In this episode we talk to Thom Parkin about his new video course on mastering Git, and other things interesting for those who want to improve their Git skills.
Links
How to find lost stashes
During a discussion of git-lost-found (now deprecated in favor of git fsck --lost-found), we asked how to find dropped stashes. git fsck --lost-found will indeed show these as well, although you have to inspect them yourself to identify which came from stash.
Episode outline
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:25 Bio/welcome
00:02:56 Tell us about your background
00:04:14 What is your experience with VCS?
00:05:47 You have a video course out about Git. Tell us about it!
00:06:28 What is SitePoint?
00:12:32 A video course on/by Packt?
00:13:09 Tell us more about the structure of your video course.
00:15:39 You had your son do the graphical artistry?
00:16:16 Always interesting to see how Git is visualized
00:18:11 Let's talk about nitrous.io
00:30:09 Tangent: Installing GIt on different OSes
00:32:10 Any other things from your video course you would like to discuss?
00:33:20 How do I find lost commits?
00:35:45 Don't stashes appear in the reflog?
00:40:11 What are the other "Gititudes"?
00:45:37 Crafting history, commit messages, squashing vs merging?
01:00:29 How much Git teaching is still left to do in the world?
01:04:13 Where can people find you online?
01:04:58 What is your favorite Git pro tip?
01:05:43 Thank you for coming onto the show!
01:05:50 Outro
01:06:36 Bonus: Head in the closet?
Links
- Thom on Github, Twitter, Sitepoint
- Git Fundamentals book
- Learnable: Introduction to Nitrous.io
- nitrous.io (for hosted development sandbox)
- ScreenHero (for remote pairing)
- Beegit (authoring platform)
- Mastering Git* on Packt Publishing
- Repository for resources, addendum, etc.
- The Gititudes
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi’s thoughts on what should be in your commit message
How to find lost stashes
During a discussion of git-lost-found (now deprecated in favor of git fsck --lost-found), we asked how to find dropped stashes. git fsck --lost-found will indeed show these as well, although you have to inspect them yourself to identify which came from stash.
Episode outline
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:25 Bio/welcome
00:02:56 Tell us about your background
00:04:14 What is your experience with VCS?
00:05:47 You have a video course out about Git. Tell us about it!
00:06:28 What is SitePoint?
00:12:32 A video course on/by Packt?
00:13:09 Tell us more about the structure of your video course.
00:15:39 You had your son do the graphical artistry?
00:16:16 Always interesting to see how Git is visualized
00:18:11 Let's talk about nitrous.io
00:30:09 Tangent: Installing GIt on different OSes
00:32:10 Any other things from your video course you would like to discuss?
00:33:20 How do I find lost commits?
00:35:45 Don't stashes appear in the reflog?
00:40:11 What are the other "Gititudes"?
00:45:37 Crafting history, commit messages, squashing vs merging?
01:00:29 How much Git teaching is still left to do in the world?
01:04:13 Where can people find you online?
01:04:58 What is your favorite Git pro tip?
01:05:43 Thank you for coming onto the show!
01:05:50 Outro
01:06:36 Bonus: Head in the closet?
Monday, March 2, 2015
GitMinutes #32: Adam Spiers on git-deps
In this episode we talk to Adam Spiers about git-deps, a tool he made for analyzing dependencies between commits.
Links
git-deps issues/enhancements mentioned
Technologies used in git-deps
00:00:00 Episode meta, sponsor, etc
00:01:40 Bio, welcome Adam
00:02:08 Tell us how you ended up here
00:05:41 What do you do at SUSE, or about the version control there
00:07:08 What do you think Git got right compared to other tools historically?
00:13:53 Tell us about your involvement with the Git project
00:19:55 What's it like to get code reviewed by the Git mailing list?
00:21:15 Your contribution is git check-ignore?
00:23:47 Tell us about git-deps
00:26:03 Explain these dependencies between commits
00:35:29 Is the dependency analysis made at runtime?
00:38:55 Can you use git-deps as an early-warning system for discovering conflicts?
00:48:23 Case in point: GUI tool for doing rebase --onto
00:51:14 How could git-deps be used in a GUI (musings)
00:54:53 Honorary mention of ungit
00:57:37 Would it be possible to use it in a tool to detect conflicts between unmerged branches?
01:01:27 Any plans or visions for the future of git-deps?
01:03:26 Tell us quickly about the tech-stack running under git-deps
01:05:42 Aren't you using node?
01:07:19 Is it open for contributions?
01:09:34 Anything you would like to promote?
01:13:52 What is your favorite Git Pro Tip?
Links
- Adam on Twitter, GitHub
- Adam's blog (posts tagged git)
- git-deps
- The history of TLA, GNU Arch (Wikipedia)
- git-check-ignore
- StackOverflow question that inspired check-ignore
git-deps issues/enhancements mentioned
- allow integration with other git web frontends
- detect whether commit A depends on commit B
- patch theory from darcs (and elsewhere)
Technologies used in git-deps
- https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2
- http://d3js.org/
- https://github.com/tgdwyer/WebCola
- https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre
- http://flask.pocoo.org/
Misc.
- git-config - Adam's bag of tricks
- git icing and cherry-menu
- ungit
- git-annex
- gource history youtube videos
00:00:00 Episode meta, sponsor, etc
00:01:40 Bio, welcome Adam
00:02:08 Tell us how you ended up here
00:05:41 What do you do at SUSE, or about the version control there
00:07:08 What do you think Git got right compared to other tools historically?
00:13:53 Tell us about your involvement with the Git project
00:19:55 What's it like to get code reviewed by the Git mailing list?
00:21:15 Your contribution is git check-ignore?
00:23:47 Tell us about git-deps
00:26:03 Explain these dependencies between commits
00:35:29 Is the dependency analysis made at runtime?
00:38:55 Can you use git-deps as an early-warning system for discovering conflicts?
00:48:23 Case in point: GUI tool for doing rebase --onto
00:51:14 How could git-deps be used in a GUI (musings)
00:54:53 Honorary mention of ungit
00:57:37 Would it be possible to use it in a tool to detect conflicts between unmerged branches?
01:01:27 Any plans or visions for the future of git-deps?
01:03:26 Tell us quickly about the tech-stack running under git-deps
01:05:42 Aren't you using node?
01:07:19 Is it open for contributions?
01:09:34 Anything you would like to promote?
01:13:52 What is your favorite Git Pro Tip?
Thursday, February 19, 2015
GitMinutes #31: Mary Rose Cook on Gitlet
In this episode we talk to Mary Rose Cook about her recent experimental implementation of Git in JavaScript: Gitlet. We also talk about all kinds of things around understanding Git, and teaching it.
- Mary's homepage
- Mary on GitHub, Twitter
- Mary's speech to new Hacker-Schoolers
- Gitlet
- Gitlet annotated source code
- Learn Git Branching (interactive in the browser)
- Try Git on try.github.io
- Docco, the annotated source documentation tool
- We should have talked about Ungit, but we didn't. Teaser: It will be mentioned in the next episode!
Here's a rough outline of questions asked:
00:00:46 Welcome to the show
00:01:18 Tell us your background
00:03:02 Do you teach Git at Hacker school?
00:03:49 Is Hacker School for programmers who want to get better?
00:04:37 Is Hacker School remote?
00:04:56 What does it cost?
00:06:25 Would you accept anyone who already has a job?
00:07:07 Is the Hacker School concept a common thing?
00:08:33 Any links for those who want to learn more about Hacker School?
00:08:51 What your Git experience?
00:10:09 How were you using Git/GitHub?
00:10:33 When/why did you start planning Gitlet?
00:12:21 What is Gitlet?
00:13:45 Can you install it and use it as a normal Git client?
00:14:38 What does it lack compared to the real Git?
00:16:04 Could you make it production ready if you outsourced the inner operations to libgit2?
00:18:12 Didn't the Learn Git Branching already implement Git in browser?
00:19:37 How did implementing Gitlet change the way you teach GIt?
00:21:08 Would I be a better Git teacher if I taught people the internals instead of the porcelain?
00:26:31 When should people who know Git take the next step to learn it deeper?
00:30:18 Why is it safer to do fetch before you go on an airplane?
00:31:01 Doesn't pull just update current branch while fetch gets everything?
00:32:10 Git fetch vs git pull
00:33:39 How can I get people to avoid merging origin/master to master?
00:39:53 Talk about the repeating patterns you found inside the Git operations
00:47:42 Talk about the beautifully annotated source code of Gitlet
00:52:50 Do you feel a lot of Git internals have leaked out in the user interface?
00:54:58 How can git reset and checkout be the same command for so different things?
00:57:53 Is it the same thing with git reset?
00:59:08 What would be your ideal Git tool?
01:01:54 Any plans for the future?
01:03:21 Anything you'd like to promote?
01:03:40 Where can people find you online?
01:04:00 What is your favorite Git pro tip?
01:04:43 Thank you for coming onto the show!
00:00:46 Welcome to the show
00:01:18 Tell us your background
00:03:02 Do you teach Git at Hacker school?
00:03:49 Is Hacker School for programmers who want to get better?
00:04:37 Is Hacker School remote?
00:04:56 What does it cost?
00:06:25 Would you accept anyone who already has a job?
00:07:07 Is the Hacker School concept a common thing?
00:08:33 Any links for those who want to learn more about Hacker School?
00:08:51 What your Git experience?
00:10:09 How were you using Git/GitHub?
00:10:33 When/why did you start planning Gitlet?
00:12:21 What is Gitlet?
00:13:45 Can you install it and use it as a normal Git client?
00:14:38 What does it lack compared to the real Git?
00:16:04 Could you make it production ready if you outsourced the inner operations to libgit2?
00:18:12 Didn't the Learn Git Branching already implement Git in browser?
00:19:37 How did implementing Gitlet change the way you teach GIt?
00:21:08 Would I be a better Git teacher if I taught people the internals instead of the porcelain?
00:26:31 When should people who know Git take the next step to learn it deeper?
00:30:18 Why is it safer to do fetch before you go on an airplane?
00:31:01 Doesn't pull just update current branch while fetch gets everything?
00:32:10 Git fetch vs git pull
00:33:39 How can I get people to avoid merging origin/master to master?
00:39:53 Talk about the repeating patterns you found inside the Git operations
00:47:42 Talk about the beautifully annotated source code of Gitlet
00:52:50 Do you feel a lot of Git internals have leaked out in the user interface?
00:54:58 How can git reset and checkout be the same command for so different things?
00:57:53 Is it the same thing with git reset?
00:59:08 What would be your ideal Git tool?
01:01:54 Any plans for the future?
01:03:21 Anything you'd like to promote?
01:03:40 Where can people find you online?
01:04:00 What is your favorite Git pro tip?
01:04:43 Thank you for coming onto the show!
Monday, July 7, 2014
GitMinutes #30: Luca Milanesio on Gerrit Code Review
This is GitMinutes episode 30 where I’m talking to Luca Milanesio, a seasoned Gerrit contributor, and the co-founder of GerritForge.
You may know Gerrit as being the code-review tool that powers some of the largest open source projects out there today, like Android, Chrome and the Eclipse foundation. It’s used by big companies like Google, Sony, Ericsson and many others. It’s a very powerful tool where you can push up your suggested changes and have them reviewed naturally, and you can also get feedback from continuous integration tools like Jenkins to make sure that your suggested changes don’t break the build. And Gerrit is the main thing we’ll talk about today.
Links:
- Luca, GitEnterprise (blog, GitHub, Twitter, Facebook)
- Use the Force, Luca (article on InfoQ)
- Learning Gerrit Code Review (Luca's book)
- GerritForge
- GitEnterprise
- Luca’s InfoQ talk on Gerrit
- Introducing GerritHub, Gerrit Code Review on GitHub (video)
- Continuous Integration Entwicklungs Workflow (Python, GerritHub, Jenkins) (video)
- Scaling Mercurial at Facebook (blog post)
- Scaling Source Control at Facebook (video with the same message)
- The infamous force push (mailing list discussion)
Use your Git local repopository as your journal and your Git commits as the explicit, simple and useful phrases of it. Before pushing, do a git rebase -i to review, re-organise and give sense to your Git history.
Outline/questions (if you think this is useful, let me know):
| 0:00 | Welcome, intro |
| 1:14 | Thanks to DigitalOcean for sponsoring this episode! |
| 2:33 | Welcome to the show, Luca. |
| 3:29 | Tell us about the force push |
| 5:10 | Tell us how you ended up where you are today |
| 7:06 | What is gitenterprise.com |
| 8:19 | Is GitEnterprise like GitHub for companies? |
| 14:50 | Lets come back to codereview later |
| 15:23 | Is GerritHub = GitEnterprise = GerritForge? |
| 17:39 | Can everyone use GerritHub for Github stuff? |
| 18:34 | Are the GitHub repositories used as the backend for Github? |
| 23:32 | Let's take a step back and look at Gerrit from the perspective of a beginner |
| 31:23 | For which teams is Gerrit the right choice? |
| 36:09 | What about teams coming directly from SVN or something else starting with Git and Gerrit at the same time? |
| 41:40 | What are Topics about? |
| 44:53 | Where are the topics managed? Where is the master record? |
| 46:01 | I definitely see the need for topics with multi repo or Jenkins jobs |
| 49:05 | Is Gerrit a good choice if you have multiple interdependent repositories then? |
| 51:12 | About Facebooks big mercurial infrastructure |
| 51:38 | Gerrit will give you the advantages that Faceboo wanted, and smaller repos |
| 53:30 | How do you review topics within Gerrit compared to traditional commits? |
| 58:42 | Are multiple interdependent changes merged in one go or one commit at a time? |
| 59:56 | We went a bit off course there, topics are very interesting :) |
| 1:00:28 | Can you talk about the community and what's going on there? |
| 1:02:41 | Oh, Spotify is also using Gerrit? |
| 1:08:22 | Traditional code review is more blame game... |
| 1:09:54 | Gerrit style review is actually lowers the barrier for daring to submitting patches.. |
| 1:15:31 | Pair programming vs Code Review |
| 1:19:05 | How to learn/introduce Gerrit in a company |
| 1:23:58 | Any questions I forgot to as you? (How the force push happened) |
| 1:25:34 | Anything you'd like to promote? |
| 1:26:57 | Let people know how they can get in touch with you. |
| 1:27:17 | Tell us your favorite Git pro-tip. |
Monday, May 19, 2014
GitMinutes #29: James Moger on GitBlit
In this episode, we talk to James Moger, the author of GitBlit, an open-source Java-powered Git repository manager.
This episode of GitMinutes is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Sign up using the promo-code GITMINUTES10 to receive 10$ worth of credit. Want to see how you can run GitBlit on your own DigitalOcean droplet? There's a screencast for that:
See how to set up GitBlit on DigitalOcean
Links:
Things we mentioned:
Some things we didn't talk about, but I'd like to mention:
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.
This episode of GitMinutes is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Sign up using the promo-code GITMINUTES10 to receive 10$ worth of credit. Want to see how you can run GitBlit on your own DigitalOcean droplet? There's a screencast for that:
See how to set up GitBlit on DigitalOcean
Links:
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.
Listen to the episode on YouTube
Monday, April 14, 2014
GitMinutes #28: Johannes Schindelin on Git for Windows
In this episode we talk to Johannes Schindelin from the msysgit project, a tool used for building Git for Windows.
Johannes is a mathematician with a degree in genetics. In his day job, he supports biologists with image processing and analysis. He is involved in a number of Open Source projects and he co-maintains Git for Windows with Sebastian Schuberth, Pat Thoyts and Erik Faye-Lund. He is from Germany, but currently lives in the Mid-West of the US.
Note: We briefly discussed libgit2 being licensed as BSD. This is not the case anymore: It has switched to GPLv2 with a linking exception,
Links:
Johannes is a mathematician with a degree in genetics. In his day job, he supports biologists with image processing and analysis. He is involved in a number of Open Source projects and he co-maintains Git for Windows with Sebastian Schuberth, Pat Thoyts and Erik Faye-Lund. He is from Germany, but currently lives in the Mid-West of the US.
Note: We briefly discussed libgit2 being licensed as BSD. This is not the case anymore: It has switched to GPLv2 with a linking exception,
Links:
- Johannes on Google+, GitHub
- Johannes' first OSS project: LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient
- (Fancy redesigned) MsysGit homepage
- Git for Windows wiki
- Mailing list/forum
- The “garden shears”
- Explanation what the “garden shears” are all about
- The git-svn ref issue
- The newly redesigned msysgit homepage sources
- Interactive rebase with Eclipse EGit
- Interactive rebase with SourceTree (this was released right after we recorded)
- Installing Git for Windows from within Visual Studio (video)
Listen to the episode on YouTube
Monday, February 17, 2014
GitMinutes #27: Stefan Saasen from Atlassian
In this episode I’m talking to Stefan Saasen from Atlassian. We focus mainly on Stash, which is their on-premise Git repository manager, but we’ll also touch on their other products to see how they all work together.
Stefan is the development lead for Atlassian Stash. He has worked on Atlassian Confluence, later with the OnDemand authentication system and finally on Stash, their Git hosting solution. He’s responsible for migrating the Confluence team from Subversion to Git, as well as a large number of Atlassian OnDemand customers.
Links:
Extend Git with git extras and git activity.
Stefan is the development lead for Atlassian Stash. He has worked on Atlassian Confluence, later with the OnDemand authentication system and finally on Stash, their Git hosting solution. He’s responsible for migrating the Confluence team from Subversion to Git, as well as a large number of Atlassian OnDemand customers.
Links:
- Stefan's blog post Reimplementing “git clone” in Haskell from the bottom up
- Discussion about making Git more thread-safe on the mailing list
- Vote for STASH-2469: Include Mercurial (Hg) support in Stash (245 votes at the time of writing, making it currently the top most voted issue).
- GitMinutes #22: Alexander Kitaev about SubGit
- GitMinutes #20: Mick Wever on Migrating to Git (mentions SubGit)
- The essence of branch-based workflows
- All Stefan's posts on the Atlassian blog
- Atlassian's Git resources
- All Atlassian blog posts tagged with Git
Extend Git with git extras and git activity.
Listen to the episode on YouTube
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