GitMinutes #01: Randal L. Schwartz on the Development of Git

In this first episode of GitMinutes, I talk to Randal L. Schwarz about the history of Git, and a lot of other things like Perl, involuntary Git migrations, the Git community, and his favorite editor!


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Links that we mention:

• FLOSS Weekly (Randal's podcast, recommended)
• Episode  122: Mercurial 
• Episode 118: Gerrit
• Episode 19: Git 
• Randal's homepage
• Randal on Google+ 
• Randal’s Google TechTalk about Git (2007)
• The revised Git talk on Vimeo (2012) (Slides)
• Deploying with(out) Git
• Repo managers: Gitolite, Gitorious and Gitblit (which I mispronounced as 'libgit', doh)
• My tips on sending mail to the Git developer's mailing list
• The Git-user mailing list

Some Git commands we talked about:
Nice graphic Git log in console: 
    git log --oneline --graph --decorate
Update and study history in gitk: 
    git fetch -p; git pull --rebase; gitk --all
Additionally, I think these are some interesting links to have a look at:

• Junio C Hamano aka Gitster's Blog (a nice place to keep up to date with new Git releases)
• A Note from the Maintainer (explains some of the Git project's conventions)

You can email comments and feedback to [email protected], or comment on this blog-post, or get in touch via:

• GitMinutes on Twitter
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The intro/outro music is provided royalty-free by danosongs.com. Do check them out!

Thanks for listening!

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