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Branch Cleanup with git prune

Published 2024-04-19 by Kevin Feasel

Steve Jones breaks out the branch cutters:

As I’ve been working with SQL Saturday and managing changes to events, I’ve accumulated a lot of branches. Even though I’m a solo developer, I decided to use branches, as I expect others to share this load in the future. This post looks at how to start cleaning those up.

As a team gets larger, the necessity of regular branch maintenance increases, but so does the complexity of it: it’s really easy to have one person not pay attention to the e-mails and get burned when old branch deletion en masse does happen.

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CI/CD in GitHub

Published 2024-04-10 by Kevin Feasel

I have a new video:

In this video, I explain what continuous integration (CI) is, disambiguate continuous delivery from continuous deployment (CD), and see how you can perform CI/CD operations using GitHub Actions.

Read on to see what these terms mean and an example of how it all works with .NET projects.

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Infrastructure as Code in GitHub

Published 2024-04-04 by Kevin Feasel

I have a new video:

In this video, we look at how to perform Infrastructure as Code in GitHub. We take a Bicep script and generate new Azure resources using it and GitHub Actions.

The video includes a very brief primer on Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and Bicep, and then gets into how you can use GitHub Actions to keep your Azure resources configured the way you expect.

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Switching a Git Commit to another Branch

Published 2024-04-04 by Kevin Feasel

Olivier Van Steenlandt fixes an oopsie-doodle:

In the past couple of months, I’ve been doing a lot of different things at the same time. Because of that, it is no exception that I have quite some branches for my Database Projects that I’m working on simultaneously.

Because of this, another issue arises as well, it happens now and then that I’m committing my changes to the wrong branch. Luckily for me, I’m making this mistake by committing directly to my development branch, where the change needs to be done in the end anyway.

Nevertheless, I need to get my change into my feature branch as well. In this data recipe, I will be guiding you through the process.

Click through to see how. If you’re using a GUI like GitHub Desktop or Sourcetree, there are also ways of doing this within the UI.

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Going with the Flow: GitHub Edition

Published 2024-03-27 by Kevin Feasel

I have a new video:

In this video, cover the GitHub flow. We talk a bit about branching strategies and how GitHub development ought to look in a multi-developer situation.

The GitHub flow is a minor variant from the classical Git flow, but one that works well with the ethos of development specifically in GitHub. It’s often overkill for a single-developer repo, but once you have a team working on a problem, this is a much more efficient approach.

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Learning about GitHub Actions

Published 2024-03-20 by Kevin Feasel

I have a new video:

In this video, we dig into GitHub’s process for executing code: GitHub Actions workflows. We’ll learn what Actions and workflows are, how we can create them from scratch, and how to incorporate Actions from the GitHub Marketplace into our own workflows.

Along the way, I describe what GitHub Actions workflows are and we build a simple one. I’ll have more videos coming up that expand on GitHub Actions and show you more of what you can do with them.

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Issues and Projects in GitHub

Published 2024-03-13 by Kevin Feasel

I have a new video:

In this video, we take a look at what GitHub has for project management, reviewing GitHub Projects and Issues.

The upshot is that GitHub has a fair amount of capability for project management. Its notion of Issues definitely feels fairly well fleshed out, which makes sense considering GitHub’s original purpose as a storehouse for open-source code repositories. By contrast, Projects are a relatively new feature and there’s still some room to grow there, especially if you’re used to project management tools like Jira or Trello.

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The Importance of Source Control for DBAs

Published 2024-02-16 by Kevin Feasel

Steve Jones explains that Git isn’t just for developers:

Git has become a fantastic tool for me, and many other technologists, over the last ten years. It’s almost ubiquitous in most of my clients, and so many people are comfortable with it. Many others aren’t, which is why I started a Git series for DBAs (and other Ops people) on my blog.

Quite a few people asked me why I recommend git over a file share for storing code that a team of Ops people or DBAs might use. Why isn’t a global file share a better choice in an organization? I think I have a few good reasons, but if you disagree, let me know in the discussion for this piece.

There are some annoyances around Git but good UI tools minimize a fair amount of the pain and the benefits are huge.

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