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

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