GitMinutes #21: Karoline and Arve on Using Git in a .Net Shop

This episode we're talking to Karoline Klever and Arve Systad from the Norwegian company Epinova, working with a .Net based CMS called EPiServer. They're well on their way migrating to Git and I wanted to hear how it's working out for them.


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Links:

• Arve on Twitter, GitHub, homepage
• Karoline on Twitter, GitHub, blog

Tools used at Epinova: 

• SourceTree (Git GUI tool)
• Atlassian Stash (repository manager)

Resources used for migrating to git: 

• The ProGit chapter on Migrating to Git
• Thomas' screencast on repairing git-svn repos using grafts

Resources for learning Git:

• Pro Git book
• git-scm.com videos
• Try Git
• Git for beginners: The definitive practical guide (from SO)
• One Git cheat sheet
• Another Git cheat sheet

Other things we talked about

• GitMinutes #05: Git in Visual Studio and TFS
• Thomas’ Git setup on Windows
• Nuget, Chocolatey, posh-git
• Have Git use credentials from encrypted netrc file
• Arve’s open source QA “checklist” tool

What I totally forgot to mention was that there are a couple of alternative command line tools for Windows that can wrap Powershell, or any other shell inside:

• Console2 (sleeping project, but still works great)
• ConEmu
• Scott Hanselman's verdict of the two choices above

Listen to the episode on YouTube