GitMinutes #01: Randal L. Schwartz on the Development of Git

In this first episode of GitMinutes, I talk to Randal L. Schwarz about the history of Git, and a lot of other things like Perl, involuntary Git migrations, the Git community, and his favorite editor!

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Links that we mention:

FLOSS Weekly (Randal's podcast, recommended)

Episode  122: Mercurial 
Episode 118: Gerrit
Episode 19: Git 

Randal's homepage
Randal on Google+ 
Randal’s Google TechTalk about Git (2007)
The revised Git talk on Vimeo (2012) (Slides)
Deploying with(out) Git
Repo managers: Gitolite, Gitorious and Gitblit (which I mispronounced as 'libgit', doh)
My tips on sending mail to the Git developer's mailing list
The Git-user mailing list

Some Git commands we talked about:

Nice graphic Git log in console: 

    git log --oneline --graph --decorate

Update and study history in gitk: 

    git fetch -p; git pull --rebase; gitk --all

Additionally, I think these are some interesting links to have a look at:

Junio C Hamano aka Gitster's Blog (a nice place to keep up to date with new Git releases)
A Note from the Maintainer (explains some of the Git project's conventions)

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