GitMinutes #20: Mick Wever on Migrating to Git

In this episode, we talk to Mick Wever about how they migrating a big team of developers from Subversion to Git. Mick has been involved with various open source projects since ancient times, and during the day time he’s working for FINN, which is Norway’s dominating classifieds website. The company has a very interesting story, and we investigate how and why they were able to make the switch to Git. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element. Use the link below to download the mp3 manually. Link to mp3 Links: Mick on GitHub, Twitter Scarab issue tracker FINN’s Tech blog Mick's article about their Git migration Package Management conflicts Continuous Delivery Apache Tiles Apache’s Git mirrors Atlassian's article on migration from SVN to Git SubGit Stash plugin The Flow of Change (techtalk from Google) GitHub Flow vs Git Flow Practical API Design (book) NetBeans API blog Configure git pull to rebase: git config --global branch.master.rebase true git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always Mick's favorite log format: git config --global alias.lol "log --follow --find-copies-harder --graph --abbrev=4 --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %Cgreen%ai %n %C(bold blue)%aN%Creset %B'" A lot of other nice aliases and configuration tips we talked about can be found at the bottom of the FINN blog post under the section 'Tips and tricks for beginners…'. Listen to the episode on YouTube