Kerry and Rinat dig into some of the development tools and practices used at Lokad. They specifically discuss Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) with a focus on Git’s familiar design and our usage of it.

Direct Podcast Download Link: Episode 18 – Git Army Knife – (65 minutes)

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Homework:

• Create a free GitHub account if you don’t have one
• Fork the official Being The Worst sample repository or Lokad.CQRS
• Add or clarify some comments to anything that may need clarification in the code/comments of the repository
• Commit your changes to your own local repo and then submit a pull request to us on GitHub to update the master repository with your changes
• Bonus: Port BTW samples to your own programming language and ask us to add your repo to our GitHub account to share with the rest of our community

Episode References:

• GitHub for Windows or Mac GUI Client
• Git site with x-plat installers
• Analyzing Git history blog post by Yves Reynhout and his C# code to do it
• Graph Theory at Think Like (a) Git
• Codebase code hosting services
• Feedback and Finding Us

What do you think?