Code and Whatnot

Sam has all the setup info you need in one place. I love how-tos, however over-specific or obscure. They make google searches like “how do I set up everything necessary to develop Java on Mac OSX” more successfull.

The Command
I’ve been thinking about turning this into a stored script that takes the revision number as an argument. For now, my motivation leaves it like this:
vim `svn log -v -r 6406:HEAD | egrep “^ *[AM].*task_[0-9]{4,}/” | sed ’s~^.*task_[0-9]\{4,\}/~~’ | uniq`
UPDATE:
uniq doesn’t work without sort. Here’s the version I’m using these days:
vim `svn […]

This works if all of the files that `svn info` lists as ‘?’ are files you actually want to add:
svn st | grep “^?” | awk ‘{ print $2}’ | while read f; do svn add $f; done
If you want to see what’s going on there, start by running svn st and add new sections […]

…logging in as someone else, or even knowing their password, is pretty sketchy

Apparently, subversion doesn’t dig colons in filenames.

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.2.3/CHANGES
Search that page for the string UTF and you’ll find a LOT of fixes related to UTF-8 support in this release of subversion. I don’t know if this has anything to do with our big merge failure described here, but that failure did roughly coincide with my introduction of some UTF-encoded text files, and […]

No one has had the time or incentive to go back and trace exactly what went wrong. In what seemed to be the normal manner, one of our programmers made a branch of our application using Subversion. Everything seemed to work; the branch appeared, the directory tree looked proper, all the files were […]