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Git Tutorial: Getting Started

I was a long time Subversion user then. So, when I got introduced to Git few months back, I was *really* confused. First of all, I couldn’t visualize some of...

0 replies - 7025 views - 06/16/11 by Veera Sundar in Articles

Displaying Git branch in Linux command prompt

Even though I create "dev" branch for all my Git projects and perform all development work there, I need to make sure I’m still on the...

0 replies - 3351 views - 06/05/11 by Evgeny Goldin in Articles

Falling in love with Git

Ever since watching Linus Torvalds’ talk about two years ago, I was excited about Git. However, it was only half a year ago that I first used it ...

1 replies - 5526 views - 06/04/11 by Felix Dahlke in Articles

Few Thoughts on Pull Requests After a Week Or Two

Still overall very positive on the new automerging pull requests on GitHub, but there are a few things that I think would...

0 replies - 2962 views - 05/13/11 by Rob Williams in Articles

What where they THINKING? The github merge button is STUPID

I just love git pull requests, but the new behavior from GitHub is beyond moronic. Take a look at a typical pull request: The problem is that clicking on...

3 replies - 10797 views - 05/06/11 by Ayende Rahien in News

Keeping Forks in Sync

In the typical workflow we had adopted for using Git, developers were making topic branches, and then using rebase to bring in changes from master and then...

0 replies - 3677 views - 04/27/11 by Rob Williams in Articles

GitHub: Issues 2.0 a Big Improvement, Short of Visionary

Since I was gassing about how awful the issues were (actually, I think just saying they weren‘t even worthy of that name), I figured I would blog about...

1 replies - 3992 views - 04/18/11 by Rob Williams in Articles

My Git Workflow

When you work with Subversion you don’t talk much about workflow because there’s only one available 99% of time:..svn updatesvn statussvn commit..I...

4 replies - 9853 views - 03/10/11 by Evgeny Goldin in Articles

How to Create a Statically Linked Version of git Binaries

Creating a statically linked version of a unix software saves you in all the circumstances where you can’t install the software as root, when you don’t...

0 replies - 3824 views - 02/28/11 by Luigi Viggiano in Articles

HOWTO: Partially Clone an SVN Repo to Git, and Work With Branches

I've blogged a few times now about Git (which I pronounce with a hard 'g' a la "get", as it's supposed to be named for Linus Torvalds, a...

3 replies - 12351 views - 01/28/11 by Nick Boldt in Articles

Ignoring Files in Git

Quick tip on setting up files to be ignored for your system. 1. Execute the command setting the location of your system level ignore filegit config --global...

3 replies - 5085 views - 12/31/10 by Gordon Dickens in Articles

SVN Fun: has no Ancestry Information

Subversion is at times really annoying and difficult to use due to its cryptic and confusing error messages and unnecessary failures. An example is when...

0 replies - 11379 views - 11/23/10 by Jakub Holý in Articles

Daily Dose - Spring Roo 1.1 and Supporting Tools Launch

The GA releases of Spring Roo 1.1, GWT 2.1, STS 2.5, and new AspectJ and AJDT versions have been launched this week after many months of synchronized...

0 replies - 22712 views - 10/28/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

Working With Git

A video blog / screencast to help you get started with Git. From...

3 replies - 8068 views - 10/25/10 by Rocky Jaiswal in Articles

Daily Dose - Milestone 2 of NetBeans 7.0 (Formerly 6.10) Released

If you haven't heard already, you should know that in the middle of NetBeans 6.10 development, the name changed to NetBeans 7.0 to align with the upcoming JDK...

1 replies - 18335 views - 10/19/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose