Note to myself:
To remove a directory from an existing git repository there are various ways to do it. The obvious way is
$ git filter-branch –tree-filter ‘rm -rf directory/’
Which is just fine for smaller repositories but can take a long time on large repositories with a lot of large files in that directory.
The faster way …
The PHP community announced that they will be switching to Git. This lead to some discussion on Twitter, wether it is good to go directly to Github or use git.php.net as the gateway to ensure control over ACLs. People were argueing that github encourages people to contribute and that the PHP community is stuck …
$ lein swank
In emacs use M-x slime-connect to connect to swank.
user> (use ‘clojure.test)
nil
user> (use :reload ‘geocommit.test.services) (run-test ‘geocommit.test.services)
{:type :summary, :test 3, :pass 9, :fail 0, :error 0}
This blog post will show you how to use geocommit in your projects. It shows how to install the Chrome and Firefox extensions to add support for geocommit to github.com and bitbucket.org
If you want to review remote changes from Mercurial offline you cannot use hg incoming. For sure there is a nice way to do it. So here is what I do to get changes from a repository to review them later without pulling them into my repo before reviewing. It also has the advantage …
Bookmarks is an extension to the Mercurial SCM, which adds git-like branches to Mercurial. The extension is distributed together with Mercurial.
Recently the extension has received a major update. Time to look back.
This is a series of blogposts that consists of three parts:
(1) Part I: History of Bookmarks
(2) Part …
macports is a widely used ports system for Mac OS. It’s repository contains hundreds of application that can be compiled and installed. The repository contains php 5.3. So if you want to run PHP from subversion you still have to compile it yourself and install it yourself outside your managed ports environment. I created …
For those not following the PHP development. We backported the DTraces probes from the abandoned PHP 6.0 branch, back to the new trunk PHP 5.3.99-dev. It is called 5.3.99 because the PHP dev community has not decided yet on a version number (5.4 or 6.0).
To compile PHP with DTrace, on Solaris or Mac OS …
The blog post gives you a short introduction into the session management of Compojure.
I really enjoy giving talks. This is particularly because I like to teach people something and because I’m really enthusiastic about the technical things I talk about. Once of these things are obviously decentralized version control system, in particular Git and Mercurial. Finally after two years of submitting talks to various conferences, people and …