Insufficiently Random

Recently Johannes Schindelin and I participated in a podcast about Git’s involvement in Google Summer of Code. You can listen to the podcast on the Google open source blog.

Recent versions of jgit, the 100% pure Java implementation of the Git version control system, support fetch and push directly over Amazon S3 .

It behaves like http push does in C git in that it is transparent to the end-user. Transparent client-side encryption can also be enabled, in case the repository data must be protected from the operators of S3.
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In honor of us moving from New York to California I have also moved the server that hosts spearce.org.  If you are reading this blog post, welcome to my new home away from home on the web.

If you aren’t reading this blog post, you may need to reconsider how you reached this location, since you can’t see it.

On the Git mailing list I’ve talked about one of the repositories I develop on/maintain, as its graph in gitk is somewhat interesting. Today I took a couple of redacted screenshots from two of the interesting parts of the history.

The first image is from a set of octopus merges that occurred in the history. This probably would look better if we had just used git-rebase to transplant the commits instead of merging them, but at the time the user who created these was still quite new to Git…

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I have decided to no longer support pg, as I haven’t used it myself in a very, very long time.  It was a useful tool and learning vehicle for myself and a few others, but it just isn’t nearly as good as core Git with topic branches.  Or git-gui.