Tag Archives: svn
My Sysadmin Toolbox
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 … Continue reading
subversion diff
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 … Continue reading
subatom 0.05
I’ve just released a new version of subatom, that now gets linking correct if you have viewcvs or similiar installed. Unfortunately, I’ve now realised that the amount of command line arguments are such that I’m going to have to start … Continue reading
Subversion Charset
I’ve just noticed in the pugs::hack document a useful tip for informing subversion about the charset of a file. svn propset svn:mime-type “text/plain; charset=UTF-8″ myfile A quick browse through the subversion list archives shows that it appears to be “not … Continue reading
SVK
As noted in my talk earlier, SVK is a really handy tool for building remote operation on top of subversion. If you haven’t tried it yet, you need too. I’ve just tried it and been absolutely blown away by its … Continue reading
Subversion for CVS Users
Today I gave a little presentation on Subversion for CVS Users at work. We’re switching to subversion for new projects rather than having a “big bang” repository conversion approach. The slides were done using DOMSlides, which seem to work rather … Continue reading
subatom
I released subatom last night. It’s a small tool to generate an Atom feed from subversion commit messages. It’s pretty simple right now, but now that the basics are there, I can improve on it. Why not RSS? Well, basically … Continue reading
Subclipse
I tried running subclipse a little while ago when I first started looking at Eclipse. I couldn’t make it work. It would just hang on commit. However, this morning, I ran the automatic update in Eclipse and noticed that a … Continue reading
subversion crash, redux
After much fiddling, upgrading, dumping, restoring, I’ve realised that I don’t have a clue what the problem in subversion is. What’s really irritating is that when I compile it with debugging, the problem goes away. So, I’ve accepted that as … Continue reading
subversion crash
Normally I run subversion under apache as I like being able to get at my stuff from anywhere. But recently, some upgrade has broken. I’ve now started seeing broken checkouts. This is most disconcerting. For now, I’ve switched to accessing … Continue reading