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Git as a Service
Git MultiSite Solves Availability and Management Challenges As an enterprise SCM administrator you’re a service provider to development organizations. You may even have a formal Service Level...
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Verifying Git Data Integrity
As a Git administrator you’re probably familiar with the git fsck command which checks the integrity of a Git database, but in a large deployment you may have several mirrors in different locations...
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Certified Git 1.8.4 Binaries Available
Git 1.8.4 (released on August 23rd) contains a nice collection of improvements and bug fixes. Best of all, there’s no need to wait for an updated package or rebuild from source. WANdisco has just...
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Git Data Mining with Hadoop
Detecting Cross-Component Commits Sooner or later every Git administrator will start to dabble with simple reporting and data mining. The questions we need to answer are driven by developers (who’s...
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Git Subtrees and Dependency Management
Component-based development has always seemed difficult to manage directly in Git. Legacy systems like ClearCase UCM have the idea of formal baselines to manage the dependencies in a project, and of...
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Reliable Git Replication: Low Overhead and Good WAN Performance
Recently I wrote about Git MultiSite’s reliable Git replication – guaranteed data safety, zero down time, and no concern about replicas falling out of sync. These are huge benefits, but do they come at...
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Reporting on Subversion & Git Live 2013
We’re two-thirds of the way through Subversion & Git Live 2013, and I’d like to share a few observations before we take the show to London next week. For this year’s conference, we also offered a...
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Choosing Between Subversion and Git
Subversion and Git are the two dominant SCM systems in use today. Collectively they represent more than 85% of the open source projects and around 60% of the enterprise (private development) market....
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Reliable Git Replication with Git MultiSite
Setting up Git replication to help with backups and scalability may seem easy: just use a read-only mirror. In reality, setting up reliable Git replication, particularly in a large global deployment,...
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How much git down time can you tolerate?
Enterprise SCM administrators realize the valuable service they’re providing to development organizations and strive to avoid outages, but exactly how costly is SCM downtime? Put another way, how much...
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The Open Source Wave in SCM
A recent Forrester survey has confirmed what those of us working in the ALM space have seen coming for several years: the open source wave has hit SCM. The wave isn’t on the horizon, it’s not...
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Git Document Sharing
If you’re a Git user, you may have heard about SparkleShare, a clever tool that gives you a Dropbox-style interface for document sharing and collaboration backed by Git. Storing your documents in a SCM...
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Git 1.8.5 certified binaries available
Git 1.8.5 was released recently, and WANdisco has just published certified binaries for all major platforms. What’s new in 1.8.5? As with all minor releases there are several nice fixes and...
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Git MultiSite Simplifies Complexity
Our newest version of Git MultiSite, version 1.2, provides centralized management and replicated configuration settings for simplified administration, as well as enhanced security across multiple...
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When Are Your Git Servers Busy?
Using Hadoop to Generate a Commit Time Histogram Knowing when your Git servers are under the most load can help you answer several questions: When is a good time to schedule routine maintenance or...
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Git Repository Metrics with Nagios
A few weeks ago I wrote about gathering some Git repository metrics and viewing them in the Git MultiSite GUI or in Graphite, and someone pointed out that some of the administrative metrics useful for...
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Why Now is the Time to Move to Subversion or Git
A recent Forrester survey revealed that 17% of enterprise software developers are still using Visual Source Safe (VSS) or CVS. It’s a bit of a puzzle why these two antiquated systems are still hanging...
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Join us for Hands-On Subversion, Git and Gerrit!
Today, we announced Subversion & Git Live 2014 in New York (May 6) and San Francisco (May 13). We’re excited about the new hands-on workshops we’ve added to the schedule this year, along with...
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Detecting Dependency Trends in Components Using R and Hadoop
As I’ve been experimenting with Flume to ingest ALM data into a Hadoop cluster, I’ve made a couple of interesting observations. First, the Hadoop ecosystem makes it easy for any team to start using...
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America Invents Act and the Prior Use Defense
Proving Your Right to Continued Use with Global Repository Management One of the significant changes in the America Invents Act (AIA) is the expanded scope of the ‘prior use’ defense. Before the AIA,...
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