Summary: In this episode we talk to Adam Spiers about git-deps, a tool he made for analyzing dependencies between commits. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element. Use the link below to download the mp3 manually. Link to mp3 Listen to the episode on YouTube 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 Episode outline 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?
