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Git Users Survey 2009

The Git Users Survey 2009 is out. If you are a Git user, take the time to fill it out.

2009 07 17 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

Flashbake or Git Gateway Technology?

Flashbake aims to bring version control to writers—or at least writers who have harnessed the power of plain text. Flahsbake is a simplified front end to Git that runs in the background automatically committing changes and recording various ambient information as you write (such as what you were listening to when the commit was made).

Written […]

2009 05 14 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Dirty Prompts

Playing with your bash prompt can seem like nothing more than an idle diversion. It is an idle diversion, it is just the “nothing more” bit that I would argue with. In a previous post I discussed how the bash prompt can reflect what git branch you are on. Now that’s useful. Seriously. But what […]

2009 01 16 Mark Eli Kalderon UNIX
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Gist-ing from TextMate

Well that didn’t take long. In an earlier post, I remarked that with command line support for Gist, the git powered pastebin service, TextMate support for Gist was now within reach. There is now a gist command in the GitHub bundle. You can either post private or public gists. The gist that figured in the […]

2008 11 26 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Command Line Gist

As I posted earlier, gist is a Git powered pastebin service. Very handy. Handier still would be a command line interface to gist. Thanks to Github’s own Chris Wanstrath, aka defunkt, a command line interface with gist is now a reality.

To install:

curl http://github.com/defunkt/gist/tree/master%2Fgist.rb?raw=true > gist && chmod 755 gist && sudo mv gist /usr/local/bin/gist

Some usage examples:

cat file.txt […]

2008 10 11 Mark Eli Kalderon version control Comments (2)

Great Wall of China

China has blocked access to GitHub. See here

2008 10 10 Mark Eli Kalderon version control Comments (0)

Git Survey

The annual Git survey is out. If you are a Git user, here is a chance to give the maintainers your feedback.

2008 09 01 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

Pushing and Tracking Remote Branches with Git

I write at home and at work, so it is natural for me to use a remote repository to keep track of my work—even with Git. Distributed version control may not force this workflow on you the way subversion does, but the cool thing about Git is that it doesn’t force any particular workflow—it can […]

2008 08 26 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (1)

Post Commit Hooks

Commit hooks, scripts run when you commit to your repository, can be handy and are readily adaptable to a variety of workflows. Here is a quick and dirty post commit hook that I use for my dotfiles, remind files, and my todo list. These are kept in lightweight git repositories. Moreover, I want to push […]

2008 08 12 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

Keeping your LaTeX Preamble in a Git Submodule

One of the much vaunted conceptual advantages of structural markup is the separation of form and content. In LaTeX, the preamble determines the the form of the document, how it is to be typeset, while the main body determines the content of the document and should contain only structural markup, markup that specifies the logical […]

2008 07 31 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
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Git Resource

Scott Chacon is maintaining this site, a useful compendium of git resources.

2008 07 25 Mark Eli Kalderon Comments (0)

The Gist of LaTeX

GitHub has just launched Gist, a Git driven pastebin service. It is very handy to have a lightweight public (or private) repository. From the GitHub blog (see also here), Bryan Liles demos Gist:

BryanL demos Gist: A Super Hot Pastebin from Bryan Liles on […]

2008 07 22 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
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Cornerstone

Previewing at 1.0, Cornerstone, a GUI Subversion front end has been released.

Daring Fireball, as ever, with the wry commentary:

It strikes me as an odd coincidence that two serious Subversion clients would debut at a time when many developers are starting to switch away from Subversion to distributed revision control systems such as Git […]

2008 07 01 Mark Eli Kalderon Hybrid Application
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Viva La Revolución

Kieran Healey has followed my lead and posted his sociology BibTeX files on GitHub. I could only be happier if someone forked me. C’mon, baby, fork me, fork me!

Update Kieran posts about it here.

2008 06 29 Mark Eli Kalderon Academic Publishing
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Gitting BibTeX

Academics tend to be pretty good at sharing resources. For example, most publish their research online. This is really helpful since it can take a year or two after submission to finally see its way into print.

One useful thing that academics share, though less often than their research, is their bibliographies. LaTeX is predominant in […]

2008 06 17 Mark Eli Kalderon BibTeX
Bibliography
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Bash Prompt Redux

OK, so you know a meeting is boring when you would rather redo your bash prompt. (And, yes, as a consequence, I have come to appreciate the point of running a headless meeting.) I wanted my bash prompt to tell me a number of things:

Who am I? Where am I? Which branch of a Git repository am […]

2008 06 11 Mark Eli Kalderon UNIX
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Migrating from Subversion to Git

Having decided to try out Git, I was excited to learn that Git could interface with Subversion repositories via git-svn. git-svn provides a bidirectional flow of changesets from a branch of a Subversion repository and any number of branches in a Git repository. The problem that I soon encountered should be evident from this description—you […]

2008 06 05 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
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Chacon Git Tech Talk

Scott Chacon, author of the very nice Peepcode title Git Internals, Source Code Control and Beyond, has given a Git Tech Talk at RailsConf 2008:

RailsConf 2008 Git Talk by Scot Chacon Video from daniel wanja on Vimeo.

The slides of his talk are also […]

2008 06 02 Mark Eli Kalderon version control Comments (0)

Open in Git Gui

OpenInGitGui is an AppleScript droplet that allows you to open Git-Gui from the Finder. Install it in /Applications/Scripts (create the Scripts directory if it does not already exist), and drag the icon to the toolbar of your Finder. Select a folder containing your git repository and click the Git icon.

Sounds easy. It is. Though I […]

2008 05 26 Mark Eli Kalderon OS X Comments (2)

GitHub and TextMate

Are you a TextMate user and have a GitHub account? Then Dr Nic’s GitHub bundle may be for you. It requires the git ruby gem, so you need to install it first:

sudo gem install git

To install GitHub.bundle:

cd ~/”Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/” git clone git://github.com/drnic/github-tmbundle.git “GitHub.tmbundle”

If TextMate is running, execute the following line:

osascript -e ‘tell app “TextMate” to reload […]

2008 05 26 Mark Eli Kalderon Text Editor
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