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GitKraken Client is Migrating From Libgit2 to Git Executable

In a world where companies pivot for breakfast, lunch and dinner – it’s rare to see a tech house commit to a large, time intensive project. Big projects take a long time to implement. Sometimes too long. But we asked ourselves, “Can we give users an early look at some of the stuff we’re working on?” We wanted something that was in-between a public beta and our own GitKraken preview states.

Unique Challenges for Software Developers in the Public Sector

If you’re a software developer in the public sector, you’re familiar with the unique challenges public sector professionals face. From grappling with tight deadlines and limited resources to working with complex legacy systems, the journey of a public sector software dev seems to be filled with obstacles at nearly every turn.

10 Video Shorts to Level Up Your Git Game

Mastering Git can sometimes feel like trying to untangle a bunch of super tangled – and wired (old school, I know) – headphones, not sure exactly where to pull or loop or flip next. Here are 10 Git tutorial videos that’ll help you level up your Git game. These videos are the perfect combination of fast and helpful.

Leveraging Git for Cribl Stream Config: A Backup and Tracking Solution

Having your Cribl Stream instance connected to a remote git repo is a great way to have a backup of the cribl config. It also allows for easy tracking and viewing of all Cribl Stream config changes for improved accountability and auditing. Our Goal: Get Cribl configured with a remote Git repo and also configured with git signed commits. Git signed commits are a way of using cryptography to digitally add a signature to git commits.

10 Best Git GUIs for Public Sector Developers

For developers working in the public sector, leveraging secure version control systems like Git is essential to manage code and web content efficiently and safely. Git simplifies collaborative projects between developers working in fields like government, healthcare, banking, and education, but hey, let’s face it – mastering Git via the command line can be like solving a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. That’s where a Git GUI comes in handy.

Team Collaboration in Git: How GitKraken Workspaces Makes the Difference

Welcome back to our Everyday Use Case series, where we continue to explore the real-world workflows for GitKraken Workspaces and show you practical ways to make routine tasks faster and simpler. In our previous article, we unpacked how GitKraken Workspaces simplifies the onboarding process for new team members in complex multi-repo projects. Now, we shift our focus to another crucial element of project development: Team Collaboration.

GitKraken Client 9.6: Pull Request Insights and SSH Commit Signing

Insights sings, while SSH signs (yes, I was proud of that one). GitKraken Client 9.6 has arrived, and we’re introducing a dedicated page for GitKraken Insights, improved commit message UX, support for SSH commit signing and SSH strict host key checking, and Azure DevOps workspace enhancements.

I use GitHub Actions for Datadog's Service Catalog, and you should, too

Today’s guest blog is by Mike Stem­le, a software engineer and Principal Architect for the Ar­c XP di­vi­sion of the Wash­ing­ton Post. In his role, Mike focuses on AppSec and large-scale architecture. Any­body who works with me knows that I love the Data­dog Service Catalog.

Improving discoverability of the git blame functionality on Bitbucket Cloud UI

We are making git blame feature more discoverable on the Bitbucket Cloud UI. A very useful feature of git, git blame has been available on the Bitbucket Cloud UI for years. Similar to how git blame works with git, on Bitbucket Cloud it annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit which introduced the line.

Pushing a project to GitLab

GitLab is a collaborative Git repository that fosters open-source development by offering both free open and private repositories. With its extensive features such as issue tracking and wikis, GitLab empowers teams to collaborate effectively and create exceptional software solutions. GitHub and Bitbucket are similar tools. CircleCI has launched support for Gitlab, so it is helpful to learn to use it. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to push a project to GitLab.