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backup backup backup

I’ve gone through many variations of my backup strategy since I started storing things digitally. Here is my current setup… The master copy is stored on my iMac’s local disk. Everything except music and dvds are synced with dropbox. Everything is one way synced to external drive 1 via chronosync nightly. External drive 1 is cloned to external drive 2 via superduper...

Feb 26th

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changing git commit messages

Changing your last commit message in a git repository is fairly trivial git commit --amend -m "some other message" but what if you’ve made several commits and want to change a message that’s not the last one? An interactive rebase is one way to do this. First find the commit just before the message you want to change ~/Work/repo (master) $ git lg * 6119426 - (master) third commit (3...

Jan 29th

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git add...all of it damn it

So we all know that git add . will add all new and modified files to the index. What about the 50 files you deleted that you also want to stage? git rm 50 times? How about adding the -u option to git add which will stage modified files and also deleted files? The one problem with that is it doesn’t add new files. So if you want to stage all new files, modified files, and deleted files then...

Nov 6th

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TextMate not finding your gems?

If you’ve built ruby yourself and stuck it in /usr/local/bin you may run into a problem where textmate is using the pre-installed version of ruby. That will result in searching for gems in the pre-installed location (wherever that is) To fix this add a shell variable called TM_RUBY in the advanced preferences of TM pointing to /usr/local/bin/ruby

Sep 23rd

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track git remote branch (note to self)

git config branch.master.remote origin git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master

Sep 23rd

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Eclipse vs. IntelliJ

I’ve been a looong time eclipse user and have tried intellij off and on over that time. I never really got hooked on intellij like some people I know…until recently. I’m not sure why it stuck with me this time, but this post will serve as my list that I can point people to when I get asked “the question” IntelliJ - The Good Selectable color themes (absolute pain...

Sep 16th

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git integration not working in textmate?

So you installed projectplus or the git bundle for textmate and it doesn’t work? Try setting a TM_GIT shell variable (located in the advanced properties) to /usr/local/git/bin/git.

Aug 16th

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svn:externals in git?

For all the benefits git has over svn, I found one thing that I was missing…svn:externals. There are a few suggesstions that you come across when searching around on this topic, one being git subprojects and another being git submodules. I couldn’t find (read lost desire) a whole lot on subprojects, but from what I got out of it is you just do a git clone of your external project in...

Aug 13th

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git pull with uncommitted files

Suppose for whatever reason you need to pull in changes from a remote repository and you have uncommitted files that you don’t want to commit. Git won’t let you do that if it needs to merge changes to one of your uncommitted files. Try this… git stash git pull git stash pop

Aug 12th