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Visualized Git best practices for team: branch, merge, rebase

January 30, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

1 – Stop using GUI for git, seriously, it’s not that many commands
2 – Be safe, branch out, commit often, merge often
3 – Git rebase to be used on the current branch
4 – Replace git pull with git pull –rebase

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git – the simple guide

January 12, 2012 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

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Github Flow

September 19, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

1. Anything in the master branch is deployable2. To work on something new, create a descriptively named branch off of master (ie: new-oauth2-scopes)3. Commit to that branch locally and regularly push your work to the same named branch on the server4. When you need feedback or help, or you think the branch is ready for merging, open a pull request5. After someone else has reviewed and signed off on the feature, you can merge it into master6. Once it is merged and pushed to ‘master’, you can and should deploy immediately

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25 Tips for Intermediate Git Users

July 12, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

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Sprout: The Easy Git Client for Mac

May 17, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

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Tower – The most powerful Git client for Mac

May 10, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

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Linus Torvalds on git

April 20, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.

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The State of Version Control – FogBugz Blog

March 8, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Subversion is still the big gorilla in the room. 47% of developers use it as their primary version control system at work. But, distributed version control systems (DVCSes) are coming on fast! Git and Mercurial have each stolen 14% of developer allegiances. And, CVS, Perforce, and Visual SourceSafe, once dominant, are now on the run.
For one, Windows 7 has already become the leading development platform, with 31% of programmers using it as their primary platform for coding. 70% of programmers today are Windows based, 16% use Ubuntu/CentOS or other Linux, and 14% use Mac O

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Git Community Book

February 28, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Welcome to the Git Community Book. This book has been built by dozens of people in the Git community, and is meant to help you learn how to use Git as quickly and easily as possible.

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GitCasts

February 24, 2011 by Brent Sordyl 0 Comments

Episodes:

Git Setup and Init
Git Normal Workflow
Git Interactive Add
Git Log
Git Browsing
Git Branching and Merging
Git Rebasing
Git Distributed Workflow

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