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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.

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00:00:00 Intro 

00:01:54 Arthur Schreiber 

00:06:04 Junio Hamano 

00:10:19 Vicent Marti 

00:26:24 Outro

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.

 

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Matthieu Moy, about Google Summer of Code projects

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Christian Couder, about Git Rev News

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Carlos Martín Nieto, about libgit2

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00:00:00 Welcome, intro 

00:03:25 Matthieu Moy 

00:05:33 Second part with Matthieu, about GSoC 

00:11:03 Christian Couder 

00:15:05 Carlos Martin 

00:23:58 Outro

In this episode we talk to Tim Caswell. He is the creator of js-git, alongside a lot of other really interesting projects.

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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!

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.

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* Note that there is a different video course published in 2011 with the same title: McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git.

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.

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?

In this episode we talk to Adam Spiers about git-deps, a tool he made for analyzing dependencies between commits.

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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?

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.

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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!

This is GitMinutes episode 30 where I’m talking to Luca Milanesio, a seasoned Gerrit contributor, and the co-founder of GerritForge.

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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.

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.

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.

In this episode, we talk to James Moger, the author of GitBlit, an open-source Java-powered Git repository manager.

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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.

In this episode we talk to Johannes Schindelin from the msysgit project, a tool used for building Git for Windows.

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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.

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.

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Favorite Git pro tips:

Extend Git with git extras and git activity.