Edward talks to Patricia Aas, a veteran C++ developer, about howread a brand new codebase, understand it, and how to get started contributing to it. Patricia Aas is a programmer who has worked mostlyin C++ and Java. She has spent her career continuously delivering from thesame code-base to a large user base, from working on two browsers (Operaand V…

Edward talks to Keith Dahlby, the creator and maintainer of posh-git,about tech conferences, what it's like to be a Microsoft MVP,and PowerShell versus unix shells. Keith Dahlby is a father, a webdeveloper, a git enthusiast, a language geek, and a nine-timeC# MVP from Cedar Rapids, IA. By day, he accelerates world-changingideas from Iowa with NewBo…

Edward talks to Bradley Kuhn and Karen Sandler, the co-founders of theSoftware Freedom Conservancy, a non-profit that supports free andopen source software projects, including git. Bradley Kuhn is a distinguished technologist at the Software FreedomConservancy and he's worked on free software non-profits for many years,including co-founding the Con…

Edward is joined by Anders Borum, the developer behind Working Copy,a Git client for iOS. Anders Borum is a independent app developer from Copenhagen. He hasbeen making iPhone and iPad apps since 2009 struggling to make a living through his own apps instead of consulting work. Since 2014 he has beenworking on a Git client for iOS. Show Notes Workin…

Edward and Martin keep talking about branching and merging, includinghow some of the other code integration commands work - includingrebase, cherry-pick, and revert. Part two of two. This is the conclusion to Part1. Show Notes Git Branching: What a Branch Is from the Pro Git book Inside Git, an explanation from TechDays NL 2017…

Edward and Martin get caught up after the security release earlier thismonth and talk branching and merging, including how Git actuallystores branches and does merging. They got so excited about talking about branching that this is actuallypart one of two. Microsoft and GitHub Martin and Edward didn't discuss the announcement, since Edward can'ttal…

Edward and Martin discuss the recent security vulnerability in Git -CVE 2018-11235. They talk toEtienne Stalmans,the security researcher who discovered it, and discuss what happens in theGit security community after a vulnerability is reported. Etienne is a Platform Security Engineer & Researcher in the PublicCloud Security Group at Salesforce. He …

Edward and Martin talk with their old bossEric Sink about the history of version controlas he's seen it - and helped create it. Eric foundedSourceGear, a company that created severalversion control products, and literally wrote the book on version control,Version Control by Example. In his own words: Eric's work in version control tools includes So…

Edward and Martin talk with Joe Nashabout using Git in education, self-diagnosed OCD around capitalization,and using pull requests in non-development workflows. Joe is the student program manager at GitHub, where his work aims tohelp student leaders build inclusive learning communities. When notcapitalising the H in GitHub, Joe can usually be found…

Edward and Martin talk about the fundamentals that you need inyour Git repository like a proper.gitignore to keep yourrepository clean, conditional configuration, and setting line endingswith your .gitattributes file. Show Notes Getting Started with .gitignore .gitignore collection, acrowd-sourced collection of .gitignore files for different types …

Edward talks with James Montemagnoabout getting started using Git, being one of the top 5 C#developers on GitHub (with3000 followers!), centralized version control systems before Gitand building CI/CD pipelines around Git. James Montemagno is a Principal Program Manager for Mobile DeveloperTools at Microsoft. He has been a .NET developer since 2005…

Edward and Martin talk to Johannes Schindelin about Git forWindows. They discuss the challenges ofporting a collection of Unix tools to Windows, maintaining a fork,make some turn of the century jokes about vi vs emacs, and encourageyou to stop saying "msysgit". Johannes Schindelin maintains Git for Windows.He used to be a number theorist, a genetic…

Edward talks with Tobias Günther aboutTower, a popular and powerful Git GUIclient for Mac and Windows. They discuss building native apps forcross-platform development, learning Git, the philosophy of development,bootstrapping a company and the value of independence. Tobias Günther is the founder and CEO of"Tower", the popular Git desktop client for…

Edward talks with Johan Abildskovabout how he teaches Git to professional developers and universitystudents, using Git in continuous delivery workflows and whether weshould be more opinionated about Git usage. Johan is a continuous delivery consultant at Praqma specializingin Automation, Git and workflows. Johan has spent the last few yearshelping …

Edward talks with Hamid Shojaee aboutGitKraken,the popular Git client. They discuss GitKraken's origins as a"30 day project", developer productivity, and building developer toolsthat are easy to use and likeable. Hamid is the founder of Axosoft, the company behind GitKraken,the popular cross-platform Git client. His background is insoftware develop…

Edward talks to some of the participants of the Git Sprint Weekend,a hackathon hosted by Bloomberg to bring people into working on thegit and libgit2 open source projects. He talks with the organizers,mentors and the hackers fixing bugs and adding new features over theweekend. Bloomberg Engineering team in London recently hosted a fun weekend ofhac…

Sara Ford sits in for Martin and she catches Edward up on everythinghe missed at GitHub Universe 2017. They discuss wildfires, conferences,the "Wisdom of Crowds", robots, and the sessions at GitHub Universe. Universe is GitHub’s flagship product and community conference fordevelopers, system administrators, technical leads, and business leaders.Att…

Martin and Edward talk to Sara Ford about getting started using Gitwith Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, using Git on Windows, andbest practices getting set up on the command line. They wade into adiscussion of git merge --squash versus git rebase --interactive,and Sara explains human factors in software development and prescriptiveand descrip…

Martin and Edward talk with Emma Jane Hogbin Westby about her book,Git for Teams, about using Git to successfully collaborate with teammembers and how to teach people to use version control. In this episode,they also discuss humanizing software development and making Git morefriendly to beginners. For over 20 years Emma Jane Hogbin Westby has been …

In this episode, Martin and Edward talk with Brendan Forster about the newand rewritten GitHub Desktop, avoiding the second-system syndrome andbuilding cross-platform Electron apps. Brendan Forster is a Senior Engineer at GitHub, working with Git tooling andassorted other open source projects. Introducing the Podcast Martin's pull request to remove…

Introducing All Things Git, the podcast about Git.Edward Thomson andMartin Woodward are excitedto talk to the people who build Git, build tools for it and make theirteams successful using it. We'll bring you an episode every two weeks, talking about the Git versioncontrol system. We'll get started on October 10, when we talk toBrendan Forster. Bren…