Git LFS 1.2: Clone Faster
As we announced a little while ago, Atlassian is collaborating with GitHub and many others in the community to contribute to the ongoing development of Git LFS. Together, we’re trying to solve the problems that face teams who need to store large files in their Git repositories, on projects like game development, media production and […]
Smart branching with SourceTree and Git-flow
Note: for brevity this article refers to Git and git-flow, but SourceTree supports exactly the same concepts in Mercurial via Hg Flow too. In early 2010, Vincent Driessen wrote an article called “A successful Git branching model” which recommended an approach called git-flow to use git branches in your development cycle. The idea was to standardise branching and merging […]
Between a rock and a hard place – our decision to abandon the Mac App Store
Update 22 Feb 2012: Apple have now extended the deadline to June 1st. Hopefully they’re realising the difficulties they’re creating for developers and will address some of the remaining concerns in this time. On March 1st, Apple will change the rules of the Mac App Store to require all applications to run inside of a ‘sandbox’. Unfortunately, […]
JIRA integration & other external project links
SourceTree 1.3 makes it easy to navigate to JIRA issues which are associated with your commits – and in fact to other supporting information like Crucible reviews or any predictable pattern in a commit message that you can identify. Linking a repository to a JIRA project If you’re committing code to resolve a JIRA issue, […]
Using submodules and subrepositories
A headline feature of SourceTree 1.3 is the support for submodules (in Git) and subrepositories (in Mercurial). The terms may be different, but they refer to the same concept; that of nesting other repositories within the folder structure of your own repository. The most common reason for wanting to do this is that your project […]
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