Devoxx11: Codereview with GIT / Gerrit

Matthias Sohn

Git:

• decentralized source version control
• good at merging
• cryptographic hashes to prevent modifications to history
• works well off-line
• personal branches
• JGit: written in Java
• eGit: eclipse plugin for Git

Adopters of GIT:

• Linux
• CVS will be deprecated in 2012
• eclipse.org: converting from CVS to Git

Gerrit:

• Code-review based on Git
• parallel work-flow based on branches
• web based interface