Yesterday I talked to someone about different git hosting solutions and they complained about the marketing bullshit on one of the homepages of a popular provider (guess who!).

I then looked at one provider I liked using and sure enough, most of them use marketing bullshit, rather then selling what …

Recently, I found myself needing to incorporate a CODEOWNERS-file to multiple repositories within our Github organization. The objective was to automatically reviewers for pull-requests. And codeowners are a perfect tool for this. This way every colleague in our company can join our Github organization and get write-access to the …

As someone who frequently works with both GitHub and GitLab repositories, I often find the need to get an overview of various projects that exist within an organization or group. At my workplace, we use GitLab’s group- and subgroup functionality to organize our team-specific and customer-specific structures.

Recently, I …

Often times I find a interesting or useful project on Github that is abandoned and has some issues. Then I hope that someone already forked the repository and continued working on it. To find a fresh fork, I had to go to the Insights-tab in the repository, click on “Forks …

As part of my job I routinely create new Github repositories for my colleagues. One unfortunate side-effect is that I am automatically subscribed to all those repositories and get mails for any new issues, pull requests and so on.

This culminated in hundreds of mails over the weekend when we …