What is a Git branch, and how do you branch in Git? The newest edition in our Learning Git with GitKraken series covers everything you need to know about branching in Git, including how to delete a Git branch, how to create a Git branch, how to rename a Git branch, and how to checkout a Git branch using the GitKraken Git client.
Creating preview environments as a result of making pull requests is one of those practices that have vast potential and are yet largely overlooked. There is a strong chance that you are not using them, even though they can drastically increase productivity. I will not explain what preview environments are, besides stating that they are temporary environments created when pull requests are made and destroyed when PRs are closed.
We know, there’s a lot to love about the legendary GitKraken Git GUI. 😉 So much so, that you might not even know about some of the magical capabilities hiding beneath your fingertips. Our #GitKrakenTip series is meant to shed light on the unique delights offered by your favorite coding Kraken. The GitKraken graph offers a beautiful, technicolor visualization of your Git repository, but sometimes, you need to see more details related to your commits.
We created the Fleet Project to provide centralized GitOps-style management of a large number of Kubernetes clusters. A key design goal of Fleet is to be able to manage 1 million geographically distributed clusters. When we architected Fleet, we wanted to use a standard Kubernetes controller architecture. This meant in order to scale, we needed to prove we could scale Kubernetes much farther than we ever had.
Now it’s time to key up the epic updates you can look forward to enjoying with GitKraken v7.4. 🔑 GitKraken v7.4: Now with Google Sign In & Graph Columns Download GitKraken Free.
What is cherry pick in Git? We have added a new intermediate Git tutorial video to our popular Learning Git with GitKraken educational series, covering the cherry pick command and related benefits. View the latest addition to our Learn Git library—Learning Git: How to Cherry Pick—to discover more about how to use the cherry pick command, for which situations it can be used most effectively in your workflow, and tips for avoiding duplicate commits.
We’re excited to announce the release of GitHub Plugin version 2.0, which adds some new features that increase productivity and reduce the need to context switch between Mattermost and GitHub. As usual, our open source community members have played a key role in developing all of these features and I’d like to say “Thank You!” for their help. Our GitHub plugin is one of the most popular integrations on Mattermost and we use it every day as part of our development process.
As time goes by, I’m looking for solutions that require as little maintenance as possible. One of those is deploying our client web app and our homepage directly on the CDN edge, with GitHub Actions. Not only we don’t need a server to host the app, but the deployment script is also serverless and maintenance-less. This allows me to focus on important tasks, knowing that deployment and serving of the app is always blazing fast.
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of a strong development environment when scaling your team’s capacity. Nowadays, most organizations use Git, and one of the popular and successful development models used by many organizations is Gitflow. When making use of such models, continuous integration (CI) is key as it enables faster project delivery and offers reduced risk and expenses thanks to self-managed and easy-to-control dedicated teams.
