Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen's blog

I've been tweeting about Gitblit every now and then, and also recommended it to people who want to run some Git infrastructure on Windows . Seeing Gitblit v1.0.0 was released a few hours ago  ( Google+ ), I would like to celebrate and congratulate the project with a two blog-posts. This is the first, and the second I hope to do soon in shape of some interviews with a couple of Gitblit users. Uh, what is a Git repository manager? It can be several things. Most people look for these features in a repo manager: A central place to share repositories A web-frontend for said repositories Manages users and access-control  Just to mention an alternative setup: At my dayjob, we use: A simple folder on a Linux server to put central repositories, accessible over SSH Gitweb as a web-frontend Access-control with SSH users and certificates We're quite happy with the above setup because we are a very Linux/Mac oriented shop, with a small team that have no fancy requirem

A year ago or so, I came across the Git-user mailing list (aka. "Git for human beings"). Over the year, I grew a little addicted to helping people out with their Git problems. When the new git-scm.com webpage launched , and the link to the mailing list had disappeared, I was quick to ask them to add it again . I think this mailing list fills an important hole in the Git community between: The Git developer mailing list git@vger.kernel.org  - which I find to be a bit too hard-core and scary for Git newbies. Besides, the Majordomo mailing list system is pretty archaic, and I personally can't stand browsing or searching in the Gmane archives. The IRC channel #git on Freenode, which is a bit out-of-reach for people who never experienced the glory days of IRC. Furthermore, when the channel is busy, it's a big pain to follow any discussion. StackOverflow questions tagged git , these come pretty close, but it's a bit hard to keep an overview of what questio