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by ethomson 8y ago
I certainly hope not. I'm not going to argue that this was anything but a disappointment to our customers - and one that we're eager to prevent from happening again. But we have never said that this was Azure's fault. It wa
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by ethomson 8y ago
PM for Azure DevOps here. The team is really excited about this launch, and many of us are here to answer questions on Azure DevOps, or any of the individual services like Azure Pipelines, the new GitHub Marketplace app, or our free build
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by ethomson 8y ago
I'm sorry to hear that - without knowing more about how it broke, it's hard for me to say. Can you give me some more information about how it's broken in the past? Links to the forums posts would be great. Probably the bes
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by ethomson 8y ago
Yeah - the hybrid cloud and on-premises build agents is actually one of my favorite features. The open source project that I help maintain (libgit2) uses VSTS's hosted Linux, Windows and macOS build agents, but add support for some ot
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by ethomson 8y ago
You're right that we need to provide some better comparisons here, but the big reason that I'm excited about making individual components easier to adopt isn't for competition, it's to help people round out what they&#x2
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by ethomson 8y ago
PM for Azure DevOps here (formerly VSTS). It is a rebranding, but it's more than merely a rebranding. We're breaking out the individual services so that they're easier to adopt. For example, if you're just interested
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by ethomson 8y ago
PM for VSTS here. The final scale unit in South Central US was brought back online a few hours ago, which means that the final accounts that were affected should now be operational. We're still restoring package management to some ac
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Supercharging the Git Commit Graph III: Generations and Graph Algorithms(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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Supercharging the Git Commit Graph(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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by ethomson 8y ago
As a Microsoft employee, I use Mac, Linux and Windows regularly. I write code in vim. I write quick-and-dirty scripts in Perl or Ruby. I’ve shipped code in Java, C and C#. I browse the web in Chrome. I push to GitHub and VSTS. Microsof
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by ethomson 8y ago
The Git community is great because even though many of the interested parties compete with each other in some form or another, we always put that aside. And that's especially true for security issues.
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by ethomson 8y ago
Thanks, peff, for the feedback. I pushed some changes to try to clarify that this does indeed require `clone --recursive`, and I added a note to credit Etienne Stalsman explicitly. That was an oversight in my haste.
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by ethomson 8y ago
Thanks for catching that, I've updated the blog.
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by ethomson 8y ago
That's a really interesting question. I tried to think about that when I was writing this blog post and couldn't really think about anything. Perhaps setting some permissions on a file or running `chattr` / `setfacl` is the
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by ethomson 8y ago
Part of this bugfix includes changes to "git fsck" to reject these problematic repositories. Git hosting sites like GitHub and Visual Studio Team Services are actively blocking these repositories today to prevent being used as ve
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by ethomson 8y ago
It's not that you can be compromised by running the code contained in a git repository, it's that there's a bug that allows somebody to create a git repository that will cause you - merely by (recursively) cloning the reposit
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by ethomson 8y ago
A symbolic ref is a ref that points to another ref instead of a ref that points to a commit. `HEAD` is a symbolic ref. (It should be your only symbolic ref.)
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by ethomson 9y ago
Well, then I wish Mercurial nothing but luck in winning the lucrative free version control client market. Edit: sarcasm aside, you're right in saying that there is competition here. And competition is healthy, it's what drives us
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by ethomson 9y ago
Git Community PM at Microsoft here: I'm very impressed by Facebook's source control team in general (and Mononoke in particular). They're doing a lot of interesting things, and they've developed a very opinionated workf
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by ethomson 9y ago
I think that the message it sends is that we collaborate with each other - Mercurial and Git, Facebook's Mononoke and Microsoft's GVFS. And since GitHub is _the_ place where open source software development happens, that's w
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My History of Visual Studio (2009)(medium.com)
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Git Merge 2018(git-merge.com)
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by ethomson 9y ago
It is not a finite list of rules. It is an explanation of the values (eg, respecting diversity) and a list of examples of things that are obviously prohibited. It is explicitly "not an exhaustive list of things that you should not do
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by ethomson 9y ago
I'm not sure why it matters how long we've been using FreeBSD, but I've been using FreeBSD off and on since roughly 2.1. You may be shocked to learn that some people actually do not have common sense. And that there is very
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by ethomson 9y ago
Jekyll for my podcast's web site ( https://allthingsgit.com/ ). I became a fan of Jekyll when I worked at GitHub, but I don't use GitHub Pages, I needed to scale it larger. (edit: in particular, I needed something
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by ethomson 9y ago
All the tools that have been mentioned already and Visual Studio Team Services, which offers agile project planning, unlimited private git repositories (free for up to 5 users) and hosted CI/CD pipelines. http://visualstudi
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by ethomson 9y ago
For better or worse, I spent more time giving talks than watching talks in 2017. My favorite talk that I watched in 2017 was Durham Goode's talk at Git Merge 2017, concerning scaling Mercurial at Facebook. It's always good to sha
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by ethomson 9y ago
Where in Heathrow are there digital gates to exit? The US already has a variety of digital gates to _enter_ the country - similar to the digital gates that Heathrow has at immigration - but this article is talking about special electronic g
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by ethomson 9y ago
My "commits per quarter" graph jumps from Q4 2015 to Q1 2017, without showing any data for the quarters of 2016. That's interesting because I moved from the US to the UK, which was quite a shock! It took me a while to reall
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by ethomson 9y ago
True. Source Depot originated as Perforce and is a fork; it had (at one time) a pretty large team of developers working on it and it has been heavily, heavily modified in the many years since.

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