Programming
Some quick git tips
As I’ve been git-ifying some stuff around here, I’ve run into a few tips that might be useful for other git beginners. The first is to setup some global options, some of which are nice for folks coming from Subversion. Having a global ignore file is useful. Mine has the following contents: *~ *.orig *.rej [...]
rsec and AIDE+gpg now on github
Ok, so the last of my git-related topics today (I need to get back to washing windows, sadly). I’ve pulled out AIDE+gpg and rsec from the Annvix tools subversion repository and they are now on github: AIDE+gpg on github rsec on github The next step, maybe for around Christmas, is to turn these into Fedora [...]
Dissecting part of a subversion repo to git
Well, that was pretty easy to figure out. As per my last post, I was going to try to break out the AIDE+gpg part of the Annvix tools subversion repo to be it’s own git repo. It was scary simple. First, the location of AIDE+gpg in the subversion repo was “tools/AIDE+gpg” and it had one [...]
Figuring this git thing out
I’m a little old-school in that I like subversion. I’ve used subversion for years, and have had it as a big part of my workflow for a really really long time. Unfortunately, there’s this git thing popping up all over the place and I’m starting to feel dated. (It’s bad enough that my daughter turned [...]
rq tool now on fedorahosted
So the RPM Query (rq) tool that I inherited as ‘srpm’ from Stew Benedict back in the day at Mandriva is now on fedorahosted,org. Unfortunately, it’s missing history because I had a dickens of a time trying to extract it from my existing svn repo (I got it so just the relevant commits where in [...]
Learning Python: module import issues
So I’ve taken it upon myself to learn Python, which is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I usually write code in PHP or shellscript, with the odd thing in Perl every once in a while (but I’m not a real big fan of perl and I don’t have the desire to dig [...]