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by ethomson 11y ago
This is very helpful information. Can you say if you've moved to a different provider or if you're now racking your own machines? And if you do have a new provider, can you say who you are and how you evaluated them? I have been
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by ethomson 11y ago
I agree, I'm happy to see more research here. For my uses, a filter based approach makes the most sense, though I can understand wanting a more holistic solution. My needs are such that I might only want to encrypt a few files, and fi
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by ethomson 11y ago
Not everybody who uses a code hosting provider like GitHub or Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services uses SSH. Some people use HTTPS for whatever reason (outbound corporate firewalls and proxies, ease of setup, familiarity, or just personal
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by ethomson 11y ago
Edit: SSH is coming soon. These are (roughly) orthogonal issues: regardless of whether we support SSH or not, we are going to support HTTPS access to Git repositories. And if we support HTTPS, we must support two-factor authentication. A lo
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by ethomson 11y ago
As has been mentioned (repeatedly) this obviously has no use for people using SSH. Indeed, the goal of this tool is explicitly to be helpful for cloud-hosted repositories in Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online). Thi
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by ethomson 11y ago
Monaco was not an acquisition. Microsoft hired Erich Gamma, who built a team in Switzerland to develop Monaco (and later Visual Studio Code). Visual Studio Code is not a fork of Visual Studio Online. Visual Studio Online (now Visual Studi
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by ethomson 11y ago
It's not about checking out, though. git-lfs aims to avoid the unnecessary transfer and storage of large files. If you didn't want large files in the work tree, you would use sparse checkout. These are orthogonal problems.
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by ethomson 11y ago
git-lfs (and similar systems) split up the storage of objects into the regular git object store (for small files) and the large file storage. This allows you to configure how you get and push large files independently of how you get and pu
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Announcing Git-LFS on All VSO Git Repos(blogs.msdn.com)
4 points by ethomson 11y ago|0 comments
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by ethomson 11y ago
This _may_ have been the default, knee-jerk guidance for the Windows team, or part of it, but it was certainly not true for the whole of Microsoft, even back in 2010. In 2010, Microsoft was shipping a handful of cross-platform tools that w
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by ethomson 11y ago
If you found that piece of documentation deficient while implementing a packfile parser, then it would be nice to update it to include those details that were lacking to help the next person to reimplement git.
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by ethomson 11y ago
I migrated my Linode from Xen to KVM yesterday; I had a ticket open and needed to migrate my VM to a different host anyway, so I decided to simply migrate to KVM. After shutting down my VM and clicking "migrate", the migration act
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by ethomson 11y ago
From my (admittedly brief) glance at the documentation, this seems like the opposite of direnv. direnv would allow you to set up configuration values on a per-directory basis, by adding a file in the directory in question. git supports th
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by ethomson 12y ago
I spent a long time bemoaning the sad state of shells on Windows. cmd.exe is pried out of amber for each release of Windows, so intent on remaining compatible with DOS and NTs gone by that it can't fix its brokenness, let alone innova
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by ethomson 12y ago
No, there is only the destination of the train, since an Alewife bound train is "inbound" or "outbound" depending on which station you're at. If you want to talk about the Red Line delays going toward Alewife, then
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by ethomson 12y ago
More than 100, in fact. But in the end only one of those vendors actually mattered.
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by ethomson 12y ago
To be pedantic: even if there is code from MSHTML.dll in Spartan, there's no code from NCSA Mosaic in MSHTML.dll. Internet Explorer originally licensed Spyglass Mosaic , which licensed the name (and the code) from NCSA, but did not a
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by ethomson 12y ago
In a nutshell, it checks out the target and cherry-picks what had been HEAD onto it, beginning at the merge-base. https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/master/src/rebase.c may be helpful and (hope
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by ethomson 12y ago
Right. Like I said, it sounds crazy that anything would ever take this long. And I'm not saying that it should take 90 days to get a patch out the door. I'm saying that it plausibly take 90 days to get a patch out the door.
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by ethomson 12y ago
Despite the long wall of text I just posted, I forgot to mention: some clever person is inevitably going to come at the end of this whole process and say "oh hey guys? I figured out another way to trigger this bug" and you start
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by ethomson 12y ago
I very much doubt that this was simply "sat on". Not knowing the full breadth of this vulnerability, I can only speculate, but I'm making an educated guess based on several years of working at Microsoft and recently managing
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by ethomson 12y ago
Well, we use GitHub to host our git repositories for open source and public projects. We use TFS to host our git repositories that are private and closed source. GitHub does a great job hosting open source projects. TFS doesn't. I
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by ethomson 12y ago
Absolutely not. We are very committed to the git space, both on the client side (Visual Studio) and the server side (Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server). We're continuing to invest - in fact, we're hiring for git de
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by ethomson 12y ago
I'm sympathetic to your suggestion that a whistle blow may have far reaching consequences. But as you suggest, it may not. It may have no impact at all. It may be wholly inconsequential. It may be a misunderstanding, a hoax. Mean
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by ethomson 12y ago
Really? That's a stunning claim. You're comfortable making this judgement call that whisteblowers are more positive than child rape is negative?
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by ethomson 12y ago
You can mount NTFS case sensitive, but you probably don't want case sensitivity if you interop with Windows and, if you don't, why on earth would you use NTFS?
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by ethomson 12y ago
Apple has updated this in Xcode 6.2 beta 3: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204147
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by ethomson 12y ago
As for common filesystems (for some reasonable value of "common"): NTFS, HFS+ and SMB will probably be case insensitive. ZFS may be case insensitive. There are others that would be exotic these days, like AFP. And with FUSE, c
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by ethomson 12y ago
It's more than just that. There are a number of additional checks that are performed for the benefit of various insane filesystems like HFS and NTFS. For example: HFS has several codepoints that are ignored for the purposes of name c
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Visual Studio: Git vulnerability with .git config(blogs.msdn.com)
4 points by ethomson 12y ago|0 comments

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