Finding the bad commit with Git
I recently found a problem in my codebase and realised it had been around for a while. A few weeks ago everything worked fine and I didn't know when or…
Integrating TeamCity with Gerrit using PowerShell – Part 1
Introduction Right now, I’m in a project where we use Google’s gerrit for code review, and JetBrains Team City for CI. Both of these tools are good by themselves, but…
Automatic issue tags in Git commit messages
If you’re working on a project, chances are you’re also using some kind of issue tracker (like Jira or Trac). Most modern issue trackers allow integration with version control systems…
Configure Git, Like a Boss
I have just created a Git presentation. The presentation is named Git, Practical Tips, and it contains good practices that I have picked up during my four years as a…
A simple Continuous Integration and Deployment workflow with ASP.NET MVC, GitHub and Jenkins
This tutorial describes the process of setting up a simple ASP.NET MVC Web Application with Entity Framework and Code First Migrations and a workflow for developing, testing, staging and deploying…
‘git add –p’ is awesome
It lets you stage parts of files for commit, let me show you how. Intro I cannot do one thing at a time, I try to, but never succeed. Especially…
Continuous Deployment, Versioning and Git
So you have heard about continuous delivery and continuous deployment and you are eager to try, but your manager is afraid that you will lose traceability of the project. How…
Finding with Git
Git is an amazing version control system that never loses anything, but sometimes it can be hard to find out where things are. Most of the time it is going…
Deploying a Clojure web app on Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform for Ruby/Rails and Node.js. However, the Cedar stack on Heroku makes it possible to deploy other types of applications. In this blog entry, I will first describe how to write a simple Clojure web app using the Ring library and the build tool Leiningen. Then I will show how to deploy this Clojure web app on Heroku, using nothing but Git. I will make a change and see how to deploy that. I will also show how to easily roll back to a previous release.
Using Git with Subversion
I had the unfortunate experience of having to use Subversion again after using Git for a long time. It is amazing how fast I can forget. After renaming a directory…
Under the Hood of 'git clone'
When you clone a git repository, everything is automatically setup to allow you to fetch, pull, push to and from the remote repository, origin. But what is really going on?…
Maven automatic build versioning and Git against Subversion
If you use Git locally against a Subversion repository you might run into problems if your project is set up to generate automatic build numbers through the buildnumber-maven-plugin, since the plugin might be setup to get the build numbers from Subversion. Through some use of additional profiles you can work around this.