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GitHub makes it easier than ever to contribute to open source with pull requests. Here I show how to submit a pull request to the VCR project.

With the fugitive plugin, you’re not limited to just working with files in your working tree. The :Gedit command allows you to open files in other branches, and to browse any git object, including tags, commits and trees. Plus, if your repository is hosted on github, you can easily bring up the webpage for any git object using the :Gbrowse command. This is the penultimate of a five part series on fugitive.vim.

When git branches are merged, there is always the chance of a conflict arising if a file was modified in both the target and merge branches. You can resolve merge conflicts using a combination of fugitive’s :Gdiff command, and Vim’s built in diffget and diffput. In this episode, we’ll find out how. This is the third in a five part series on fugitive.vim.

The fugitive plugin provides an interactive status window, where you can easily stage and review your changes for the next commit. The :Gdiff command visualizes the changes made to a file, by comparing the working copy with the index. In this episode, we’ll learn how to stage hunks of changes to the index without using the git add --patch command. This is the second of a five part series on fugitive.vim. In the next episode, we’ll learn how to resolve a git merge conflict by performing a 3-way vimdiff.

The fugitive plugin, by Tim Pope, is a git wrapper for Vim. It complements the command line interface to git, but doesn’t aim to replace it. In this episode, we’ll see how some of fugitive’s commands can streamline your workflow. This is the first of a five part series on fugitive.

I’m trying something new and using the YouTube player. Let me know if you see any differences. In this video, I demonstrate how to create, merge, and delete local and remote branches in Git. Git is a Source Control Management system written by Linus Torvalds for managing development on the Linux operating system. Download (29.3 [...]

Mastering Git takes you deep into Git to give you the working knowledge you need to confidently use this system. Git is an amazing source control system and will change the way you work - we've devoted over 3 hours and hopefully you'll agree that Git's rockin.

Every good project needs a good setup. In this episode, I set up a github repo, create a new rails application, hook in Cucumber and Rspec, write a Cucumber feature, and write the code to make it pass.

Git has won the hearts of many programmers in recent years making it their version control system of choice. But, Git can be used by everyday users to keep configuration files or anything else that may change over time in version control. In this episode we'll go through Git boot...

PHD gives you Passenger-based Heroku-like Deployment. Having been spoiled by Heroku for some time, I love being able to run 2 commands from a git repository to deploy an application: 1 $ heroku create my-app 2 $ git push heroku master If you have Passenger installed on a server, you...