The best subversion client I’ve used to date? git. It’s so script-friendly! This morning somebody asked me for a complete history of a project in CSV format. Using my nicely cloned repository, it was a simple matter of giving the correct format to git log.
⇒ git log –pretty=’format:%h,%ai,%an,%s’ | [...]
I’m in a pickle. There’s a project at $WORK that I should have been paying closer attention to (but haven’t). We’ve taken some 3rd party software (guanxi as it happens), and made some modifications in order to form our own custom distribution. But:
We started modifying what was then the trunk.
The trunk has [...]
I like using git, particularly in combination with git svn. It makes it really easy to work with version control offline. But there’s a problem: branches.
Now git is really good at using branches. Unfortunately, git svn can’t cope very well with pushing one of git’s merges back into subversion. It gets really confused. Trust [...]
I’ve just started a new project on Google Code Hosting (of which more later). I’ve been developing it in a local svn repository, and I’d like to transfer it up to the google svn server.
This isn’t easy. Google help has How do I import an existing Subversion repository?, but that’s only half the [...]
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want to store my documents in subversion. But what to do? Word processors all seem to produce ugly binary documents. Even though OpenOffice.org’s odt files are basically just zip files, it’s still putting zipfiles into your subversion repository.
Why is this a problem? Because you can’t [...]
I’ve just found the svnmerge tool. It’s a real boon if you have to work with branches in subversion. It’s still not quite as simple to use as svk but it’s still better than doing things by hand…
I’ve just done a couple of new releases of my modules:
JavaScript::JSLint 0.04, which is just renaming from Lint to JSLint to more accurately reflect where it’s come from (pointed out by Matthias Miller).
subatom 0.07 which switches from the baroque XML::Atom api to the much nicer XML::Atom::SimpleFeed (thanks, Aristotle).
subatom 0.08 because I am a doofus and [...]
I’ve finally bit the bullet and upgraded Typo to the trunk, so I can get everything up to Rails 1.1. Unfortunately, this was quite a painful process…
Normally, I track bits of software I might want to hack on in a vendor branch in subversion, and use svn_load_dirs.pl to update to new releases. This [...]
After seeing lots of these at Linux.com recently, I thought I’d try to come up with my own list. I used to be a sysadmin (I’m now a programmer), and I’ve long felt that you really a good set of tools (and to know how to use them) in order to be most productive.
zsh
I [...]
Normally, subversion uses a builtin diff command to show you your changes. This works pretty well most of the time, except that you can’t use it to disable whitespace-only changes. How to do this isn’t spelled out 100% clearly in the FAQ, so here’s what I found out:
Make a shell script ~/bin/svn_diff. [...]