Category Archives: git

Improving the Git Windows experience: Downloads

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

I love Git. It’s very powerful tool that lets me bend my repository to my will, with commands and features that blow the other source control providers I’ve used out of the water. However, the tooling just doesn’t do it … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Out Git Remotes The Easy Way

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Derick Bailey

I had a rather large number of remote repositories set up in my Backbone.ModelBinding repository on my box, due to the wonderful community of contributors. But it was time for me to clean out the remotes as I no longer … Continue reading →

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posh-git on Herding Code

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Keith Dahlby

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to record an episode of Herding Code with GitHubbers Paul Betts and Phil Haack on the state of Git for Windows: Herding Code 132. Topics included discussions on why Git hates developers and … Continue reading →

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Automating Docco Generation And Deployment To Heroku And Github

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I got tired of manually typing “git push origin master” and “git push heroku master” to push changes in my BBCloneMail app up to Github and then deploy to Heroku. So I automated that with a rake task. Then I … Continue reading →

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Git Beyond the D in DVCS

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Keith Dahlby

Jimmy’s post is a nice reminder of the advantages of a distributed version control system. But having ramped up on Git primarily through git-svn, I thought it would be worth enumerating some of the advantages I’ve found just in my … Continue reading →

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The D in DVCS

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Just a reminder that the D in DVCS stands for “Distributed”, not “Disconnected” or “Decentralized”. This is a centralized model (from http://progit.org/book): And this is Distributed: Note that in the first picture, you’re reliant and dependent on the server for … Continue reading →

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Git workflows with git-tfs

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

I’ve been working with git-tfs on a project for about a couple of months. Git-tfs is a source control bridge that allows you to work with Git locally, reducing the number of operations to communicate with the TFS source control … Continue reading →

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How to fix Subversion merge

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

Having done quite a bit of branching in centralized and distributed source control systems, I’m intimately aware of the additional (and I would say, unnecessary) pain centralized source control systems like Subversion and TFS bring to more powerful branching strategies … Continue reading →

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Hipster Git Commands: Git Stache

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Derick Bailey

We’re all familiar with ‘git stash’ – the ability to store changes in a special working folder without committing them to the repository. Well… thanks to a tweet by Jimmy Bogard, we now have the hipster version: git stache (image … Continue reading →

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CodeStock 2011 Wrap-up

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Jimmy Bogard

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the CodeStock 2011 conference. I haven’t been to a whole lot of developer-run conferences besides our own local code camps, but this one absolutely blew the others away. … Continue reading →

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