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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Links:
Mick on GitHub, Twitter Scarab issue trackerFINN’s Tech blogMick's article about their Git migrationPackage Management conflicts Continuous DeliveryApache TilesApache’s Git mirrorsAtlassian's article on migration from SVN to GitSubGit Stash pluginThe Flow of Change (techtalk from Google)GitHub Flow vs Git Flow Practical API Design (book)NetBeans API blog
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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