Category Archives: Git

How to use Git and Github for Windows from within a Windows auth proxy network.

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Eric Hexter

If you work at a company where you need to type in your user id to access sites on the internet and when you want to use git to push to a repository on the internet and it just hangs. … Continue reading →

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Why GitHub’s pricing model stinks (for us)

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

I love GitHub. I use it for websites, I use it for OSS, I use it for a dump of blog post code. I love the website, I love the tools, I love the apps. I love that it’s in … Continue reading →

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Github for windows – I would send a pull request if I could

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I am a huge fan of Github for Windows. I believe it is a major game changer for using GIT on windows machines. It took a horrible installation experience and turned it into a pleasant surprise. I think that the … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Build Tools, Continuous Integration, Pragmatism, Product Reviews, Tools and Vendors | 18 Comments

Build Monitoring in the cloud

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Eric Hexter

I have been using a number of services in the cloud lately, AppHarbor, Azure Websites, MyGet, Code Betters Team City OSS Continuous Integration server. While these services are making deploying websites and nuget packages easier then ever.  I do not … Continue reading →

Also posted in Branch-Per-Feature, Source Control, Subversion | 10 Comments

Why Source Control Matters and Hopefully it’s Git

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Chris Missal

I had an interesting and fun discussion last week with my fellow Headspring employees. I’m a big advocate of using git and I’m also the type of person that likes clean code and clean commits. Combining these two things and … Continue reading →

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Using posh-git and posh-hg together

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

I use both Git and Mercurial for projects, as well as Powershell as a console for both. Both source control systems have awesome plugins in posh-git and posh-hg that provide nice statuses, tab expansions and so on. However, they don’t … Continue reading →

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posh-git v0.4

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Keith Dahlby

I figure a year between releases is plenty, so I’ve tagged a v0.4 release of posh-git. Really the notion of versions for a bunch of scripts on which noone depends seems a bit silly…if a feature seems to be missing, … Continue reading →

Also posted in Agile, Continuous Improvement, Education, Kaizen, Lean Systems, Retrospectives | 6 Comments

I accidentally the code

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Chris Missal

I’m not going to sit back and let Ryan slip all the memes into Los Techies. After a slip up earlier today… here’s something that I couldn’t help but say inside my head: Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post … Continue reading →

Also posted in Agile, Behavior Driven Development, Craftsmanship, Pragmatism, Quality, Unit Testing | 3 Comments

Working with Forks on GitHub or CodePlex

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

So you want to contribute to a Git project on GitHub or CodePlex. The first thing you always do here is create a fork, which is easy enough: After you create your fork, you’ll likely then clone that forked repository … Continue reading →

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How to fork the ASP.NET Web Stack to GitHub

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

I find GitHub a lot easier to work with for visual diffs etc., so if you’re interested in forking the newly released ASP.NET Web Stack on CodePlex to GitHub, it’s quite simple. Prerequisites: First, get a GitHub account and make … Continue reading →

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