Having re-started development of the Apache Lucene.NET project, we get asked quite often about the "right" way of contributing code. This is a quick-n-dirty guide for those who are new(ish) to git. Follow the guidelines below and your journey for contributing to Lucene.NET or any other ope...

A few days ago, while in Paris, I had a late-night beer & code with Emeric Fermas, the guardian angel of libgit2 and libgit2sharp. If you don't know those projects, look them up - it's basically a re-write of Linus's hacks also known as git.

Anyway, as Em is an extremely passionate and talented ...

If you use nuget, then you probably are familiar with the packages folder that takes forever to update in your source control repository. Whenever you or someone in your team updates a package, committing and pushing it takes forever, and then everyone updating their local copies have to wait as wel...