Gerrit Workflow
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Gerrit has a unique workflow. It has some similarities to pull and merge request models, but is more flexible and more automated. That goes back to its roots in the...
View ArticleGerrit Administration
So far I’ve been talking a lot about Gerrit’s strong points. Now it’s time to focus on one of Gerrit’s comparative weak points: administration. Gerrit has all the tools you need to run a stable and...
View ArticleAdvanced Gerrit Workflows
As a final note on Gerrit workflows, it’s worth looking into Gerrit’s Prolog engine if you need a customized code approval process. Now, I know what you’re thinking – do you really need to learn...
View ArticleScalable Social Coding
I’m very pleased to announce that Git MultiSite now formally supports GitLab, a leading on-premise Git collaboration and management suite. With this and future integrations, Git MultiSite’s promise of...
View ArticleGitLab and Git MultiSite: Architecture
The architecture of GitLab running with Git MultiSite is worth exploring. In the interest of saving a thousand words, here’s the picture. As you can see, the topology is quite a bit more complex when...
View ArticleBinary artifact management in Git
Paul Hammant has an interesting post on whether to check binary artifacts into source control. Binary artifact management in Git is an interesting question and worth revisiting from time to time....
View ArticleAn essential Git plugin for Gerrit
One of the frequent complaints about Gerrit is the esoteric syntax of pushing a change for review: git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master Translated, that means to push your current HEAD ref to a remote...
View ArticleScalable and Secure Git
Now that WANdisco has released an integration between Git MultiSite and GitLab, it’s worth putting the entire Git lineup at WANdisco into perspective. Git MultiSite is the core product providing...
View ArticleLatest Git binaries available for download
As part of our participation in the open source SCM community, WANdisco provides up-to-date binary downloads for Git and Subversion for all major platforms. We now have the latest Git binaries...
View ArticleDevOps is eating the world
You know a technology trend has become fully mainstream when you see it written up in the Wall Street Journal. So it goes with DevOps, as this recent article shows. DevOps and continuous delivery have...
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