20100308 Breakpoint demolog, days 32-33: moving to Windows

Since I’m going to be away from my main computer for a few days, I reformatted mrdoob’s laptop so that it could run Windows. Mind you, this is a Macbook Pro computer, which means that installing Windows is a long process, specially if you make a mistake and have to reinstall Leopard from start again! [...]

20091218 My Git workflow

I first attempted to use Git almost a year ago. I tried to use it as a kind of rsync’er between computers for my personal projects+data folder. It didn’t work too well: I think it was primarily built with the idea of versioning and syncing source files, not thousands of WAV sample files scattered around [...]

20090702 Keeping .DS_Store files at bay

.DS_Store files are to Mac what Thumbs.db are to Windows: annoying, meaningless and worst of all, ubiquitous. Whenever you browse to a folder which contains certain magic files or you do something like moving an icon to a certain position, they system will create those files in the folder. Then you happily type in git [...]

20090529 DVCS are very cool, but…

I have taken a look at both git and mercurial. I even went as far as creating several git repositories for syncing stuff across three computers and testing how it would work. It went quite well, considering there was a huge amount of data involved (for example, my music repository, which consists in lots of [...]