Hacking Corner

gitstats in gentoo

hoxu — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:05:00 +0000

There is now a gitstats package for gentoo, maintained by Justin Lecher

Ohloh enlistments not updating

hoxu — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:43:28 +0000

I just realized the enlistments of neither GitStats nor ViewGit on Ohloh have updated during the last five (!) months. The web branch for GitStats says “Ohloh update completed 5 months ago.”, master branch “(Failed 5 months ago.)”. Ditto for ViewGit, except the other way around. No wonder the commit count hasn’t been going up [...]

How to upgrade all dependencies of a debian package

hoxu — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:25:42 +0000

Sometimes Debian Unstable users may find it useful to upgrade all dependencies of a package (missing version dependencies etc). The following command can be used to do it: $ aptitude safe-upgrade ~Rpackage~U

Blocking Facebook’s web history tracking

hoxu — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:25:11 +0000

Now that Facebook is providing a “service” for sites to allow showing an iframe that allows you to like any URL (and see friends who have liked it as well), it is coincidentally collecting data on your browsing habits. Opt-out can be done using Adblock Plus with the following URL: http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?* From privacy point of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]