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   by ethomson 7y ago

   Product Manager for GitHub Actions here. Sorry that this was difficult for you - we're continuing to work on our documentation for both GitHub Actions and Github Packages (and how to use them together) and we'll make sure that we
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   by ethomson 7y ago

   Indeed, GitHub Actions only has ubuntu virtual machines, but you can run a custom container with the `jobs.<job-id>.container` specifier.
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   by ethomson 7y ago

   If you want to run within a container so that you don't have to install dependencies, that's no problem. Just specify it as `jobs.<job-id>.container`. GitHub Actions will download and start that container, and any `run` co
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   by ethomson 7y ago

   No, this slide is correct. git diff (without any arguments) shows you what you haven't staged. In other words, the different between the working folder (which here is called "workspace") and the index.
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   by ethomson 7y ago

   We changed the architecture quite a bit during the beta period to address feedback like this. With what's available today you don't need to run all your steps in a container. You _can_ take advantage of containers, but you don&#
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   by ethomson 7y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. We're working on caching now, which will help you with your built artifacts between runs. We're also working to tune the list of pre-installed software so that the more common packages (like .NET Core 2.
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   by ethomson 8y ago

   > Can you provide a reference? I was searching a bit and only things I found was bugs in windows[1] for git lfs. Apologies, I hastily mistyped, I meant 500 GB , not 5 . (5 GB is about the size of my repository, which is not really so
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   by ethomson 8y ago

   It has nothing to do with the Windows filesystem; Git simply cannot support a 5 GB working tree on any filesystem. You can call this "pathological" but this throws a lot of shade on monorepos without much critical examination of
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   by ethomson 8y ago

   Aha, through the Azure Portal. I'm not sure what that works that way. I'll look into it, thanks for the explanation.
10. 40.▲
    by ethomson 8y ago

    There's a lot of comments about our UI and I thought I'd post a quick followup here instead of replying to each one individually. We are definitely reading these comments. UI itself is polarizing, and changing a UI moreso, but t
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    Sorry, I don't understand what you're seeing here - you're creating a new project in Azure DevOps? When you do this, you get the choice between Git (hosted in Azure Repos) or centralized version control (TFVC hosted in Azure
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    I'm not in Redmond, but do send an email. I'm my HN name @microsoft.com. We should be able to sort out some of these issues for you. I'd like to hear more about the docs problem. But: You should be able to recurse submodu
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    Haha, yes, sorry for making it sound bigger than it is. If you just want to do some build & test validation, it should just be a single yaml file. Not identical to Travis but close. We even added some getting started documentation if
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    I think that you want somebody who's unbiased to answer this from their perspective (I'm a PM for Azure DevOps, so I'm pretty biased). But I've built out Azure Pipelines for many platforms, including Ruby and RoR with a
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    Thanks for the kind words; I agree that caching is a problem. We're working on it now.
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    PM for Azure DevOps here. We've been investing heavily in our user experience and our CI/CD experience, so I'm sad to see that we've disappointed here. Some of these complaints I would agree with - in particularly, we&#
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    Indeed - from the Azure Pipelines side of things, we started seeing a fair number of open source projects move some of their workloads over to us when we announced unlimited build minutes for open source projects. (I'm a PM for Azure
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    Well, actually magic(5) is used by the file(1) command to identify a file. So when you type `file foo.jar`, it can tell you "hey, this is a jar file". This isn't something that other applications do, and exec and friends do
19. 49.▲
    by ethomson 8y ago

    This is not an area of the product that I work on, so I don't know what the status is. Let me look into it.
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    To clarify a bit: _Azure credits_ cannot be used to pay for Azure DevOps subscriptions. So if you want another parallel pipeline, then you cannot use Azure credits to pay for that. However, Visual Studio subscribers do get licenses for Azu
21. 51.▲
    by ethomson 8y ago

    Just wanted to follow up: did you get your issue resolved? If not, please email me (address is my HN username @microsoft.com).
22. 52.▲
    by ethomson 8y ago

    I'm sorry to hear that - can you contact our support directly through the method of your choice? https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/devops/ has the options. (Sorry, our team hangs out most place
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    Update: the Director of Engineering for Azure DevOps has posted this. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17485
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    I love Visual Studio, but the product currently known as Azure DevOps (formerly known as VSTS) really has nothing to do with Visual Studio. The name made a lot more sense back in the day when the premier client was actually the Visual Studi
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    I'm glad you're mostly happy, but I'm sorry it's only mostly. I hope that we'll improve this. Honestly, the lowest latency mechanism is to hit @AzureDevOps up on twitter (or me personally) and we'll make sure
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    At the risk of sounding philosophical, when you're building a cloud service that gets continuous delivery of features... when is that simply an iteration, versus something new? Anyway, I'm not a philosopher. But I don't thin
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    You can subscribe to get emails for availability incidents on our service availability blog, https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/ (it's in the right-hand sidebar).
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    They try to keep me away from the SQL, so I don't have the most enlightened answer, to be honest. But smart people that I trust tell me that Redgate's tools are really excellent for SQL Server and SSRS projects. And that they in
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    It does indeed. You can deploy to Azure (of course) or to AWS, GCP or on-premises.
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    by ethomson 8y ago

    It will be on our service availability blog: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/ , and I'll reply here with a direct link once it's online.