If I was running GitHub

Mar 16, 2012 | Technical

If I was in charge of GitHub, I would build a team of .NET Programmers and have them built an awesome UI for Git on Windows, bundle it with Git itself as well as other usually needed programs like an SSH client and release it for free. Well, as open source of course....

Git-gc'ing all git repositories

May 2, 2011 | Technical

I was running out of storage space on my machine, so I started to search for things to remove using Grand Perspective. Some of the big files were inside Git repositories, or rather, inside the .git directory of those repositories. I decided it was time to run the Git...

.gitignore

Jul 9, 2010 | Technical

I’m launching a new site: gitignore.com For now it’s just a blog, but the final goal is different: Every time I start a new project I hesitate to make the first commit: what should I commit and what shouldn’t I? Essentially, what should I put on...

Distributed revision control was a breakthru

Jan 6, 2010 | Technical

I strongly believe in revision control. Back in the days when there wasn’t any other choice that CVS I spent countless hours setting up CVS servers and re-freshing my mind on its obscure commands and arguments, which were almost all of them. If you drop my copy...

Revisioning /etc with Git

Dec 30, 2009 | Technical

First and foremost I’m a coder, a coder who strongly believes in revision control. Second I am also a sysadmin; but only by accident. I have some servers and someone has to take care of them. I’m not a good sysadmin because I don’t have any interest...