GitMinutes #29: James Moger on GitBlit

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In this episode, we talk to James Moger, the author of GitBlit, an open-source Java-powered Git repository manager.

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Links:

• James on Google+
• GitBlit homepage, Twitter, Google+
• GitBlit mailing list/forum

Things we mentioned:

• Redmine project management tool
• JGit GitServlet
• Gerrit code review
• Apache Wicket web framework
• Laika makes cool animated movies (and uses GitBlit)
• GitBlit demo on dev.gitblit.com
• GitBlit on Docker
• Screencast demoing the new GitBlit tickets
• Docs on GitBlit tickets
• How to use handle tickets (with the Barnum script)
• Redis NoSQL database
• Using GitBlit as pure repository viewer (like “git instaweb”)
• Slack: team communiation tool
• GitBlit Slack Plugin
• FlurFunk team collaboration (abandoned experiment)
• pf4j: KISS plugin architecture for Java
• Guava Caches
• Bintray hosts the GitBlit downloads

James' pro-tips:

• tig: command line Git UI
• SmartGit

Some things we didn't talk about, but I'd like to mention:

• Wikimedia is a big GitBlit user. So is CentOS.
• James wrote about the early story of GitBlit on the mailing list some years back
• I wrote a couple of blog posts about GitBlit for the 1.0 release

Extra pro-tip: "git fetch -p". It stands for prune. Will remove tracking refs from your clone that no longer exist in the remote but it will NOT remove any of your local branches. It's a useful shortcut for cleaning up your clone so you can GC to reclaim space.

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