GitMinutes #29: James Moger on GitBlit

In this episode, we talk to James Moger, the author of GitBlit, an open-source Java-powered Git repository manager. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element. Use the link below to download the mp3 manually. Link to mp3This episode of GitMinutes is sponsored by DigitalOcean. Sign up using the promo-code GITMINUTES10 to receive 10$ worth of credit. Want to see how you can run GitBlit on your own DigitalOcean droplet? There's a screencast for that:See how to set up GitBlit on DigitalOceanLinks:James on Google+GitBlit homepage, Twitter, Google+ GitBlit mailing list/forumThings we mentioned:Redmine project management toolJGit GitServletGerrit code reviewApache Wicket web frameworkLaika makes cool animated movies (and uses GitBlit)GitBlit demo on dev.gitblit.comGitBlit on DockerScreencast demoing the new GitBlit ticketsDocs on GitBlit ticketsHow to use handle tickets (with the Barnum script)Redis NoSQL databaseUsing GitBlit as pure repository viewer (like “git instaweb”)Slack: team communiation toolGitBlit Slack PluginFlurFunk team collaboration (abandoned experiment)pf4j: KISS plugin architecture for JavaGuava CachesBintray hosts the GitBlit downloadsJames' pro-tips:tig: command line Git UISmartGitSome things we didn't talk about, but I'd like to mention:Wikimedia is a big GitBlit user. So is CentOS.James wrote about the early story of GitBlit on the mailing list some years backI wrote a couple of blog posts about GitBlit for the 1.0 releaseExtra pro-tip:  "git fetch -p".  It stands for prune. Will remove tracking refs from your clone that no longer exist in the remote but it will NOT remove any of your local branches.  It's a useful shortcut for cleaning up your clone so you can GC to reclaim space.Listen to the episode on YouTube