The Clone Wars: A Star Wars Story of Monorepos
Do we really need another blog talking about monorepos and polyrepos? Maybe not, but let’s try a new take on this Star Wars Day!
What’s a bors, and Why (Don’t) You Want It?
Bors-NG is a GitHub app that prevents merge skew: A problem where patches work at review time but don’t work when they’re actually merged because the main branch changed in the meantime. The classic example is when one patch renames a function, while another patch adds a call to it by its old name and nobody […]
Category Articles about GitHub
Visit this page to access all GitHub articles in our blog. Our software engineers share their experience and best practices to guide you on GitHub workflows.
How to Git Undo Commit: Methods and Best Practices
Made a mistake in Git? No worries! This guide covers git reset, git revert, and git reflog to undo commits safely, whether they’re local or already pushed. Learn when to keep, unstage, or discard changes and how to recover lost commits.
Impact of Flaky Tests in Merge Queue
Flaky tests, which fail unpredictably without changes in code or environment, can cause significant delays in development. They disrupt merge queues by blocking valid pull requests, leading to resets, wasted resources, and frustration among developers. Merge queues are designed to streamline the integration process, but flaky tests undermine their efficiency. Tools like Aviator MergeQueue help manage these challenges with features such as parallel testing and early validation. By addressing flaky tests and stabilizing testing environments, teams can ensure smoother workflows and more reliable CI/CD pipelines.
How to Calculate DORA Metrics
DORA metrics won't take your team from subpar to world-class overnight, but when used correctly, they will help you steadily improve over time.
Introducing FlexReview Teams and SLO
A customizable framework for managing code review assignments, notifications and response expectations, to improve inter-team collaboration and reviews speed.
Migrating from GitHub Actions to Jenkins
Learn how to develop a Jenkins pipeline from an existing Actions pipeline, implement secret management, email notification, and pipeline development in Jenkins. Finally, this post discusses the best strategy for migrating from GitHub actions to Jenkins.
How we built one of the most complex apps on top of GitHub
In this post, I’ll go over what we discovered and the lessons learned) while building a complex app on top of GitHub.
How do git commits actually work?
A simple post that helps to build (or rebuild) your mental models for how Git commits work.
What’s a bors, and Why (Don’t) You Want It?
Bors-NG is a GitHub app that prevents merge skew: A problem where patches work at review time but don’t work when they’re actually merged because the main branch changed in the meantime. The classic example is when one patch renames a…
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