GitMinutes

In this episode we talk to Joey Hess, the inventor of git-annex and many other useful tools you may be familiar with. Joey has worked on Debian since the 90’s, including building the Debian installer. We already mentioned git-annex many times on this podcast, so most of you should know it is a tool for tracking large external files from Git repositories. We also touch on a lot of other topics, including KickStarter, Haskell and PRISM.

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Git annex:

Haskell related:

Update 2: A listener pointed out that the Apple Store does not automatically reject GPL projects. Since then, VLC has become available in the AppStore again.

In this episode we talk to Ryan Hodson, the man behind Ry's Git Tutorial.

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Installing Git manual web pages

If you want to see the help for git-status, you can do either of these:

git status --help 

git help status 

On Windows/Msysgit, the default is to always open the web page. If you are on Mac or Linux, you can append -w to the above commands.

If you always want to see the web pages (so you can leave out -w), you can do:

git config --global help.format web

On my Mac, Lynx was the default browser for some reason, so I had to configure it to use the OSX `open` command (for html files) instead:

git config --global web.browser open

On my Ubuntu machine, I had to configure it like this to use Google Chrome (Firefox was default):

git config --global web.browser google-chrome

I also had to clone the docs into this location (not the one according to the GitHub help pages above):

/usr/share/doc/git/html/

See git-web--browse docs for more info.

In this episode we talk to Pablo Santos from Codice Software about Plastic SCM, GitSync and SemanticMerge.

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In this episode, we talk to Richard Hartmann about vcsh, a Git-based tool for managing your home directory and configuration.

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This is the fourth and final set of interviews from Git Merge 2013 in Berlin.

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Saturday's Drinkup, photo is CC-BY Thomas Rast

Big thanks to Viaboxx GmbH paying for my trip to Git Merge!

Michael Haggerty (github, homepage)

About the git imerge project

Michael's lightning talk at Git Merge

Christian Couder (homepage/presentations)

Enjoy fighting regressions with git bisect (article, slides)

Fully automated bisecting with "git bisect run"

Christian's lightning talk at Git Merge

Elego, doing consulting on Git & processes

Valentin Haenel (github)

German Git book

Git Meetup Berlin

Carlos Martín Nieto (github)

libgit2

Nico von Geyso (github)

pygit2

Dulwich (pure Python Git implementation)

This is the third set of interviews from the Git Merge 2013 conference in Berlin.

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Bird eye of the coffee corner. Photo CC-BY Thomas Rast

Alfonso Alba García (twitter)

The Spanish Git community, AprendeGit.

Andrey Devyatkin (google+, twitter)

About large Git migrations at Ericsson

Jens Lehmann (github)

About git submodules,  enhancements.

Update: Jens and Heiko's lightning talk at Git Merge

Christian Halstrick (google+), SAP

About JGit. Eclipse’s Gerrit instance.

Scaling Up JGit (Shawn Pearce's presentation from EclipseCon 2013)

This is the second set of interviews from Git Merge 2013 in Berlin.

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First guest of the day, Scott Chacon, with the Berliner Dom in the background.

Photo CC-BY Thomas Rast

Scott Chacon (homepage, twitter, github), works at Github

About Git community. GitTogether.

Mislav Marohnić (homepage, twitter, github)

About the passion of Git users. Hub. Git tips. Merge vs rebase.

Update: Mislav's lightning talk about Hub at Git Merge

Thomas Rast (homepage, google+, github)

On Git internals, git-notes, git log -L, developing Git.

Last week I went to the Git Merge conference in Berlin! I brought my improvised digital recorder (a Nexus 7 connected to a pair of PlayStation Singstar mikes), and recorded a good few interviews, enough to make four episodes for GitMinutes, of which this one is the first.

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Dirt-cheap digital recorder. Photo by Roberto Tyley

Here are the Git repositories with the notes that were taken during the conference.

The guests in this episode:

Maximilian Haack (twitter), developer at PropertyBase. 

About GitMerge and his thesis for visualizing Git

Ben Straub (twitter, github, homepage). Works at Github.

About libgit2. Here's the talk from Vicent Marti we were talking about

Update: Ben's lightning talk at Git Merge and Vicent's talk again

Jeff “Peff” King (homepage), Works at Github.

About Git core development, improving performance.

In this episode we talk to Drew Neil. He is the man behind Vimcasts, and the book Practical Vim. A couple of years back he did a whole bunch of screen-casts on how to use Git from inside of Vim, and this is what made me want to get him on the show.

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An example of using GitHub’s compare feature to tell the story of a codebase: 

Presidents (Follow the ‘view diff’ links in the README file to see the codebase evolve)

In this episode, we talk to Martin Geisler, a long time contributor to the Mercurial project.

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Martin is a software developer since 15 years, focusing mainly on Python. I met him at a conference some years back where I talked about Git-SVN, and he talked about Mercurial, and we got to have some really interesting discussions on Git vs Mercurial, some of which we were able to recreate for recording this episode.

Links and resources from the show:

Some other useful things we didn't talk about:

Finally, new users might find a minimal ~/.hgrc file with my favorite extensions useful:

[ui]

username = Your Name

[extensions]

# Color output and show progress bars in your terminal

color =

progress =

# Pipe output into a pager

pager =

# Enable 'hg rebase' and 'hg pull --rebase'

rebase =

# Enable 'hg histedit', like 'git rebase -i'

histedit =

# Enable 'hg record', like 'git add -i; git commit'

record =

[pager]

# Set $PAGER or specify the pager to use here: 

pager = less -FRX