Luke Kilpatrick talks about "gitStream (Way Faster ColdFusion Git Merging)" in this episode of the ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
"We'll talk about cool things you can do with Git to speed up your whole merge process using a new tool called Git stream."
Show notes
What is Git?
- Why should all CFers be using it?
Top CF source control software
- GitHub was is made by Microsoft now
- GitLabs
What are Branches, Pull Requests and Merges
- Branches of the code tree
- Code edit conflicts - merge required
- Most edits in different parts of the code base usually don't need a merge with humans
- Risk of breaking the build
- CI - Continuous Integration
- CD - Continuous development - automated testing (TDD)
- Pull request (PR) is the request to do the merge + code review
- More rapid deployment cycles on the cloud
Why do Merges suck in most companies?
- Waiting on humans to do the code review, who is best to review this change?
- Getting up to speed on that particular part of the code and why the change was made
How does gitStream help?
- It analyses the pull request
- Uses CM YAML file to decide
- Types of change
- Small change - auto-approve
- Standard change - who will review
- Critical change - to core code
- Who is the best person to review
- Tags the PR
- Compare to triage at hospital ER department
- Ideal
- PR 100% faster (average time from 7 days to 3.5 days)
- Visibility and statistics on merge times
gitStream features
- Triage of PRs
- Estimated time to review
- Works with VS Code
- Stateful labels, color coding
What does gitStream cost?
Hack-tober fest support for spam PRs
Is this just for commercial repos or can open source projects use it too? Any GitHub hosted repo
Install
Roadmap
- Adding to GitLabs, BitBucket etc
- VS Code extension
Mentioned in this episode
Bio
Luke Kilpatrick
Luke Kilpatrick started as a web developer in 1996, transitioning to building developer programs in 2010 with VMware. He has led or worked on developer experience teams at Sencha, Atlassian, Nutanix, Hazelcast and now at LinearB, working to improve the developer experience and speed up code reviews. Luke has managed and spoken at developer events worldwide, with highlights being Atlassian Appweek, Nutanix .NEXT, DevRelCon and /Data's Future Developer Summit. He lives in California, where he spends his spare time, on or under the ocean.
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