Episode: 23

Is Grace Ace?

Still conflicted about Git? What’s the alternative? Is there one? This week Scott Arbeit Graces Matt and Liam with his compnay to talk about a little source control project he is working on, Grace.

Who is Scott Arbeit

Scott is a Senior Technical Architect at Github, and the founder of the Grace source control system.

Grace

The Show

  • 00:05 Introduction to The Beer Driven Devs podcast
  • 11:16 Scott’s Inspiration for Grace
  • 15:40 Scott’s Approach to Merging in Grace
  • 22:12 Displacing Git in the Industry
  • 25:03 Overview of Grace’s Functionality
  • 29:47 Architecting Grace for Developer Needs
  • 31:09 Hacker News Reactions to Grace
  • 33:12 Importance of Writing Clean Code
  • 34:17 Git Frustrations
  • 35:08 Resolving Merge Conflicts
  • 36:10 Grace’s Auto Rebase Concept
  • 36:51 Merging Work in Git
  • 1:05:37 Private Branches vs. Forks

🍻 Tonights Drinks 🍻

  • Strictly ☕ - it’s first thing in the morning!