20100629 Diff’ing with RapidSVN

I thought I had to enter “diff” in the diff tool field, but I was wrong: it didn’t work. Apparently RapidSVN expects a graphical application instead of a text-mode application that runs on a terminal. But fear not! There’s an application for this. It’s called meld. So… sudo apt-get install meld And in RapidSVN → [...]

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 [...]

20081210 Add SVN support to your Eclipse installation

UPDATE March 2009: Mr doob informed me this installation method has been superseded in later versions of the IDE, and the connector and all other SVN components are now very easy to install, which kind of invalidates this article. However, the rest of advice regarding the use of SVN in Eclipse is still valid. So [...]