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How to handle big repositories with Git
Git is a fantastic choice for tracking the evolution of your code base and collaborating efficiently with your peers. But...
Nicola Paolucci
Code Approval Policies Explained
Professional teams that produce quality software and maintainable systems often employ a lightweight process to safeguard the introduction of new...
Smaller Java images with Alpine Linux
Sometimes I need to be hit in the head with an axe to find a solution to a problem that has...
Collating repositories or grafting earlier history with Git
Let’s add another arrow to our already full quiver of version control tools and techniques. Do you know that the Linux...
Static Go binaries with Docker on OSX
Recently I’ve been writing a service in Go to enhance the projects dashboard on Bitbucket – if you haven’t heard we...
Learning Go with flashcards and spaced repetition
This year I have been choosing Go for all my coding projects. Go is brilliantly fast, simple to pick up, it...
The power of Git subtree
Git subtree allows you to insert any repository as a sub-directory of another one. It is one of several ways Git...
Feature Branches, Builds and Multiple Environments
In our recent Dev Den Office Hours we were asked some very interesting questions. One that caught my attention and...
Pull Request Merge Strategies: The Great Debate
When a piece of work is complete, tested and ready to be merged back into your main line of development,...
One weird trick for powerful Git aliases
(Yes the title of this post is a pun, apologies!) I have written about aliases before! See for example a...
Flux step by step
Facebook has recently presented a new way to compose applications, an application architecture they named Flux. They reported that as...
Pull request proficiency: Fetching abilities unlocked!
Nowadays applying a fix to a project is as easy as creating a fork – which conjures up a full...
It happened: Git 2.0 is here and it’s full of goodies
This major release of git has been brewing for a long time and I am excited to go on the...
Git and project dependencies
Consider the following questions: How do you handle project dependencies with git? Our project is made up of multiple inter-dependent repositories....
Trust the merge and branch simplification musings
Our recent webinar featuring product rock stars Jens Schumacher and Ken Olofsen gave a great overview of git workflows. Branching workflows go from bare and simple, to complex,...