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ViewSVN full history released

hoxu — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:07:07 +0000

The full history of ViewSVN (2004-2007) is now public and hosted in a gitorious repository. Ohloh statistics are also available. At this point the repository is mostly of historical value and the older versions can probably only serve as (bad) examples in many different ways. Or a good example on how (originally) really really badly written [...]

Separating history of a git repository subtree

hoxu — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:43:38 +0000

Most people probably already know that it’s possible to merge histories of multiple repositories by using the subtree merge strategy [1]. However, sometimes you also need to separate/decouple the history of a repository’s subdirectory into a stand-alone repository. This post outlines how. In this example we decouple dokuwiki/lib/plugins/piwik from the dokuwiki repository. $ git clone --no-hardlinks ~/projects/others/dokuwiki [...]

Disk usage reports – JDiskReport

hoxu — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:59:55 +0000

In case you have wondered how to find out which files to delete to free up disk space, wonder no more. JDiskReport can easily visualize the disk usage of a directory tree with pie charts and other diagrams. Very useful for having a quick look at what is eating up the space, and since it [...]

git status / utf-8 umlaut tip

hoxu — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:06:12 +0000

git status and other commands display utf-8 filenames containing umlauts (äö etc) differently from the shell, eg. as escaped (\266, \303 etc). So in case you are having problems with umlauts, the following command should help: $ git config core.quotepath false From man git-config(1) for core.quotepath: The commands that output paths (e.g. ls-files, diff), when not given the -z [...]

git tips/tricks

hoxu — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:02:33 +0000

I have to admit the more I use git the more I love it. Here are some random tips of commands I have found useful. -p is your friend $ git add -p Hand-pick what changes to add to the next commit. $ git reset -p The same as before, but in reverse. Eg. remove some changes from the index. $ [...]

Sorting dicts by value in python

hoxu — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:38:41 +0000

A couple of tips (read: notes to self:) using sorted() and lambda to sort dicts by values in python. Often you need to count occurrences of previously-unknown keys. The most usual way is to store these in a dict like this: d = {} d[key] = d.get(key, 0) + 1 Eventually you end up with something like: d = {'joe': [...]

Hedgewars – a worms clone

hoxu — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:58:38 +0000

Since it’s been over two years since the last time I blogged about Debian games, I figured it’s time to mention this small gem. Hedgewars is a pretty polished & very playable Worms clone. It supports quick singleplayer games against the AI, hotseat multiplayer games, and multiplayer games over the internet. Naturally, the multiplayer game is [...]

Debian popcon statistics for gitstats

hoxu — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:20:43 +0000

Who said you can’t know how many Debian users are there for a given package? The popcon installations for gitstats seem to be up to 100 at the moment (package rank 17712 – my unstable installation claims to know 28085 normal packages). Out of those, 23 users actually use it actively. Now if there was [...]

CD/DVD tray stuck on Debian Sid

hoxu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:43:08 +0000

In case anyone has run into this peculiar bug, the problem seems to be devkit-disks-daemon (in devicekit-disks package). Debian bug #550316. Killing the daemon allows you to open the tray normally. Bad gnomes this time.

ViewGit 0.0.5 released

hoxu — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:24:49 +0000

ViewGit 0.0.5 has been released. Freshmeat announcement is pending: Improved RSS interoperability, added a new default style, simple authorisation plugin, and git-issues plugin. On a very much related note, the new SourceForge.net interface is a usability horror. Took me 18 minutes to figure out how to make the bloody file release. I guess I was wrong when I [...]