Category Archives: Software
Read the credits first
The other day James was showing me around QGit, how to do blames, review logs, etc and we were trying to get it to use Beyond Compare as an external diff tool (C:/Progra~1/Beyond~1/BComp.exe /ro %1 %2) Things were behaving funky, … Continue reading
Getting into Git
With the pending move to the US, I need someway to work detached from the main NZ network. So I was keen to try-out Mercurial or Git. I had heard more positive Mercurial stories, verse the real men use Git … Continue reading
Subversion upgrade missing UUID
We recently upgraded our subversion server at work because it was having performance problems, yet the new server also performed poorly, so our dev-svn-admin guy did a dump reload of all the repositories, to gain the benefits of the new … Continue reading
Book: Lex & Yacc
I picked up a copy of Lex & Yacc off TradeMe the yesterday, and I’m quite excited. I’m hoping it will help me get my head around parser writing, for my still to-be revealed side project… For a while now … Continue reading
Beyond Compare 3.0 Beta
I have been playing with the Beyond Compare 3.0 Beta, 3-way merge in particular, and it works so fine with Subversion. I’m sold, now I just have to wait so I can buy it…. I think this falls inside the … Continue reading
