Git Branching Strategy

Having been in two discussions about Git branching strategy with different organizations, I decide to jot down the details of all the common branching strategies in one post. This should help organizations develop their branching policies. There is a lot from Atlassian documentation. I also find this article a good resource. Centralized workflow (no branching) … Read moreGit Branching Strategy

Common local Git operations

This is a summary of concepts in common Git operations. We will discuss brach, merge, rebase, cherrypick, stash and reset. Then we’ll discuss pull, fetch, and push. Commit, Branch and HEAD When you run “git commit”, the following happens: Git checksums each subdirectory, and stores them as a tree object (file path and name) and … Read moreCommon local Git operations

Clean up Git repository

A BitBucket repo has a hard limit of 2GB in size, and soft limit of 1GB. This is not expandable as per Bitbucket and contributors will start receiving warnings once soft limit is reached. We can tell the usage of a repo from the landing page of the repo in BitBucket. Git is a distributed version control system … Read moreClean up Git repository

Git Explained 2 of 2

This is a continuation from Git Explained 1 of 2 where the fundamental concepts are covered. In this article we introduce some tools for customization and maintenance. As for Git configuration, there are two files to dictate your Git configuration. ~/.gitconfig and .git/config in project directory. Running `git config –list –show-origin` shows all config entries … Read moreGit Explained 2 of 2

Git Explained 1 of 2

In a nutshell, Git is a distributed version control system, commonly used as source control management. It places files in one of three logical areas (working dir, staging, repo) below depending where it is in its lifecycle. There are many cheetsheets out there but this article will just sort through some concepts unique to Git. … Read moreGit Explained 1 of 2

My thoughts on CI/CD

This is a huge topic that is impossible to cover in a posting. To make it worse, they become a buzz word that every body use to mean different things. AWS has a good white paper on CI/CD but there are too much focus on its own hosted services along the way. Otherwise it is … Read moreMy thoughts on CI/CD