McEs, A Hacker Life

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Git Tips and Tricks

Good to see GNOME happily using git. It turned out to be a surprisingly smooth process. Thanks krh and owen!

Some of us have been busy working on the docs. There's still a lot to write, edit, and polish (help appreciated!). My favorite page is the Git Tips and Tricks. I learned a couple new tricks myself, so thought I share. Add yours.

Labels: git, gnome

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Monday, September 17, 2007

gnome-changelog

Dear Lazy Hackers,

Here is my version of prepare-ChangeLog.pl, based on a version I found around the web, with a couple of formatting changes and incomplete git support.

Here is webkit's heavily hacked version of prepare-ChangeLog.pl, apparently based on a separate version and without multiple ChangeLog support as far as I see, but with full git support.

Who is the brave soul / fearless Perl hacker to merge them and create an authentic version and then add it to gnome-common?

I also have a bunch of other gnome scripts I use here.

Thanks,

behdad

Labels: ChangeLog, git, gnome

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Please Git It

Continuing the Git Migration thread from foundation-list, I have to agree with ebassi that git is designed to be highly scriptable. That's kind of a tautology as one can infer it from the fact that most git tools are written as scripts calling lower-level ones.

What I wanted to post but am now writing here is that you can write a wrapper around git (porcelain as they call it in git speak) that behaves exactly like bad ol' CVS if you really want to keep the old workflows and minimize the learning curve. Without bothering to write a full script, lets have a quick look:

cvs -d root checkout module
git clone root/module module cd module git checkout -b working

cvs update
git fetch git rebase master

cvs commit what
git commit what?what:. git push origin working:master

cvs tag tagname
git tag tagname git push origin tagname

You get the idea... However, the main point about migration to distributed source control systems is, you really should not keep your old workflows or you are ignoring most of the benefits. Non-technical users (translators?) can use these kind of scripts though. Last but not least, you can do cool things with git that you can't do with CVS.

Labels: cvs, git, gnome

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Friday, September 07, 2007

Motion Typography Art

Awesome samples in
Motion Typography: 4 Approaches To Kinetic Text. Check out the videos. My favorite is the second one. I wish I could do something like these one day. Other than the fact that I don't have the artistic talent for it, all are done in Adobe After Effects. No idea if we have any comparable Free Software tools. Guess not.

In other links, great Git for Computer Scientists intro. Thanks Federico!

Labels: git, motion, typography, video, youtube

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