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Git 2.56 Takes Aim at Messy Merges, Slow Diffs and Branch Sprawl
Git 2.56 improves merge safety, speeds up large-repository operations and adds cleanup tools that could prove especially useful for AI coding agents and busy DevOps teams.
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GitHub is rebuilding its Git infrastructure as AI coding agents drive billions of commits, promising up to 35x faster writes while exposing new DevOps bottlenecks.
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Git 2.56 improves merge safety, speeds up large-repository operations and adds cleanup tools that could prove especially useful for AI coding agents and busy DevOps teams.
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GitKraken’s suite of tools is designed to make it simpler for developers to move between multiple application environments.
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An open source GitBOM tool, discussed at the Open Source Summit Europe conference this week, can automatically track every source code file incorporated into each built artifact. N…
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Software delivery modernization should be done with care, especially with mission-critical mainframe apps. But for some, modernization will feel like a trip back to the future. Mai…
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At this point, we’ve got a ton of experience with the bits of Git that we use. And locking down Git is well-documented. Okay, it is documented; we can say that, at least. Interesti…
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GitHub this week made available an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that enables DevOps teams to add extensions to workflows. Billy Griffin, director of engineering for G…
Open Source Languages and Tools for z/OS
Empower your developers to use their preferred open source languages. We offer many open source languages and tools—including Git, R and Python—that allow any developer to harness…
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GitHub this week rolled out a series of offerings including updates to its server platform that includes a major update to the on-premises edition of the Git-based repository for s…
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Oracle today at its Oracle Developer Live—Java event proposed making a bevy of updates to Java that includes replacing the Mercurial source code management (SCM) platform, which is…
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OverOps this week announced it has added support for a git blame and automated source attach capability to its namesake platform for analyzing code that surfaces both root cause da…
Application Performance Management/Monitoring
Instana has announced it has become the first provider of an application management platform (APM) to enable IT teams to automate the deployment of agent software to monitor IT env…
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Ossification is an issue in IT, and always has been. It is borne largely out of staff and management knowing what to expect from existing software/infrastructure, and the deep prod…
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GitHub today at its GitHub Satellite virtual conference announced it has made it easier for developers to either launch a project or join an existing project on its repository and…
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Kong has launched an open source tool for designing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make it easier for teams of developers to collaboratively edit an API spec…
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Git, the version control system that arguably has enabled many DevOps advances over the last decade, is turning 15 this month. Git was developed by Linus Torvalds, best known for h…
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DevOps’ ultimate aim is to create efficiencies in the software delivery process. But it doesn’t always work out that way. Sometimes DevOps initiatives lead to mistakes—something we…
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Some of my Agile and DevOps transformation work, not surprisingly, involves helping clients with tooling adoption—to set up, scale and operate across the organization. This blog pi…
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There are many factors to consider when making the decision whether to migrate your source code. Is it appropriate for the project? Will it work? How might it impact the quality an…
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A dev team’s branch management strategy can have a significant impact on the rate at which it can release high-quality software. In this article we’ll explore the pros and cons of…
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If you work in an organization that has not yet embraced DevOps, then you might be wondering where to begin. Fortunately, there are many good answers. But I want to introduce one s…
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I used to hate Git. Compared to my previous source control systems (SVN, SourceForge and floppies), it was cryptic, opaque and hard to learn. It was comfortable to create a set of…