Comments on: Herding Code 132: Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows developers

By: Reflections on 2012 » Wisconsin Web Works

Reflections on 2012 » Wisconsin Web Works — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:24:26 +0000

[...] this month for a mini-summit with the other native app teams and recorded more podcasts including Herding Code and Deep Fried [...]

By: Painless git diff « Binarymist

Painless git diff « Binarymist — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:01:15 +0000

[...] to invest a little more time in Git. I had done a bit of reading and listened to a few good podcasts on Git, so I felt it was a good time. think like a git is also good for a [...]

By: Reflections on 2012

Reflections on 2012 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:31:54 +0000

[...] this month for a mini-summit with the other native app teams and recorded more podcasts including Herding Code and Deep Fried [...]

By: Podcasts Microsoft .NET developers should follow

Podcasts Microsoft .NET developers should follow — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:26:56 +0000

[...] Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows developers117: Llewellyn Falco on Approval [...]

By: My Git, Mercurial and Powershell setup | Lazycoder

My Git, Mercurial and Powershell setup | Lazycoder — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:19:42 +0000

[...] I haven't set up any aliases in my Mercurial config, I haven't really found the need to. I find the Mercurial commands to be much more intuitive and easier to remember than the Git commands. Mostly because "Git hates developers" [...]

By: A bit of an edge case – Using Git-TFS to get the best (or worst?) of both worlds - Richard Fennell

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:48:47 +0000

[...] For more general chat on Git and distributed source control try this recent Herding Code podcast [...]

By: Tomas Jansson

Tomas Jansson — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:26:00 +0000

Great episode with a lot of useful tips.

This is a small help for Jon Galloways frustration regarding typing in the passphrase on every commit. You don’t have to put in your passphrase everytime, there is a work around. Git has a configuration called askpass which allow you to execute a program when git asks for password. I hacked together a small program that allows you to store your password in the protected storage: https://github.com/mastoj/EasyPass, and then you can set this program to be executed through the askpass configuration.

It is a hacky solution but it works.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Great episode! I’m looking forward to the GitHub for Windows as well – though I’m perfectly happy with the combination Git Bash and SmartGit for visualizing the repository.

It is mentioned a few times that the default installation of Git for Windows installs Vim in compatibility mode. I don’t know if this was once the case, but the latest version has vim set to nocompatible.

By: Jared Parsons

Jared Parsons — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

In the show it was mentioned that Visual Studio extensions are possibly responsible for incorrect / inconsistent line endings. In particular VsVim was mentioned as possible offender.

This was definitely the case in VsVim up until version 1.1. New lines were incorrectly hard coded to CRLF even if the file was LF. Since version 1.1 it now uses the Visual Studio mechanism for line ending detection. If you see any more problems please do send me a bug report.

Issue tracking bad line ending handling.

https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/issues/621

jaredpar

By: posh-git on Herding Code | Solutionizing .NET (Keith Dahlby)

posh-git on Herding Code | Solutionizing .NET (Keith Dahlby) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:15:17 +0000

[...] 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 why Mercurial proponents’ claim [...]

By: Keith Dahlby

Keith Dahlby — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:52:00 +0000

Documentation is sparse, outside of the section in Pro Git. You just need to create a .gitattributes file in your repository root that looks like this: https://gist.github.com/1080624

By: Herding Code Podcast on GIT for Windows Developers - Remondo

Herding Code Podcast on GIT for Windows Developers - Remondo — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:45:00 +0000

[...] Herding Code Episode 132. Put Phil Haack, Paul Betts and Keith Dahlby in a virtual room and let them talk an hour or so on GIT for Windows Developers. Throw in some K. Scott Allen (what a voice!) for hosting, and you’re in for a treat. Great discussion on version control, rewriting history, Git hating developers, Think like a Git, posh-git, GitHub workflows and much more… specific to Git for Windows and GitHub. Highly recommended. [...]

By: Margo

Margo — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:45:00 +0000

For the windows-based developer, GitExtensions is really just a fantastic way to go. It’s “visual” yet stays close the core of Git, so you can come up to speed quickly. It works with Visual Studio, but frankly we don’t bother with that.

http://nvie.com/archives/323 also helped provide nice info and visual guidance on branching.

Between those two things, it works great. I dragged my feet on changing version control systems for a LONG time (as much as I hated VSS, it worked and was simple, unlike TFS). Now I think Git and source control is a great and useful thing!

By: Rob Heckart

Rob Heckart — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:18:00 +0000

In regards to “Keith talks about using gitattributes to do things like telling Git to use C# differencing with .cs files.” where do I find more info about this? My Google searches are returning nothing useful..

By: Endy

Endy — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:04:00 +0000

Looking forward to the “git for windows” mentioned by Haack and Betts. I think git bash is not bad, I have no problem using it, but it would be great if there is a better alternative to gitk (git GUI).

FYI there is a VS plugin for git on codeplex: http://gitscc.codeplex.com/

By: Dew Drop – January 23, 2012 (#1,248) | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew

Dew Drop – January 23, 2012 (#1,248) | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:00:07 +0000

[...] Herding Code 132: Phil Haack, Keith Dahlby and Paul Betts on Git for Windows developers (Jon Galloway) [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:49:00 +0000

FYI a really easy way to collapse a bunch of local (unpushed) commits in Mercurial is ‘hg strip -k’. Combine that with ‘hg rebase’ of local branches you haven’t pushed yet, and ‘hg push -b’ and you can do most of the local history editing / per-branch pushing options you’re talking about as git advantages.

Much of the problem is the Mercurial documentation leads you to think you need Mercurial Queues to perform this stuff. You really don’t – git is still more ‘natural’ about these things, but you can still do them.