Dave Zych

Migrating from SVN to Git; How we did it

My team migrated from SVN to Git about 3 months ago. After a few tweaks, a few bugs and a little elbow grease we’ve been stable ever since. And you know what? It was one of the best moves we’ve ever made. Developers are more efficient and we

Migrating from SVN to Git

So you’ve done it – you’ve finally made the decision to switch to Git. SVN does some things very well, and has been a great source control system since it’s creation in 2000. But the features that Git brings – distribution, performance, easy branches, easy merges, stash – are hard

Microsoft releases a preview of the .NET Compiler Platform, codenamed Roslyn

Microsoft released a public preview of the .NET Compiler Platform, codenamed Roslyn, on April 3rd, 2014. The code is available at http://roslyn.codeplex.com/ for you to bask in all of it’s glory. You can clone the .NET Compiler Platform Git repository using this command: > git clone https:

Coloring your Posh-Git output

As a followup to my previous post, Coloring your Git output [http://davidzych.com/2014/04/05/coloring-your-git-output/], if you use Posh-Git [https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git] you can also edit the colors of the Git output by modifying the Posh-Git settings. What is Posh-Git? It’s a fantastic set

Coloring your Git output

Do you sometimes have a hard time viewing the output of a Git command? Updating the colors might help! In Git, you can edit the config to change the color of the output. You can set colors per repository or globally. We’ll focus on the global config here. The

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