Archive for November 2007

ash and select

Working on gc-utils, I discovered that bash, pdksh, ksh and zsh support the select statement, but ash doesnot. The select statement creates a numbered list out of a list of words and let you choose one of them. This is done until a break statement is reached. The statement is a great way to create [...]

gc-utils – debian packages

Debian packages for gc-utils are now available from http://deb.experimentalworks.net. This makes installing and uninstalling more comfortable. Just download and run it with a graphical installer like gdebi or with command line tool executing: $ wget http://deb.experimentalworks.net/gcutils_0.0.2-1_i386.deb $ sudo dpkg -i gcutils_0.0.2-1_i386.deb Comments are welcome. Debian packages for gc-utils are now available from http://deb.experimentalworks.net. This makes [...]

gc-utils – interaction between cvs and git

The version control system GIT is powerfull but not yet widely used. In everyday life programers usually have to deal with centralized VCs, in particular CVS. If you have to use CVS but want to get the advantages of GIT, you usually will import a CVS repository into GIT using git-cvsimport. Dealing with the cvs [...]

After weeks…

Finally, I updated my personal git against and solve the buildin-branch.c conflict. Finally, I updated my personal git against and solve the buildin-branch.c conflict.