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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the day I get an honest to goodness break, I’ll probably be hit by a car for kneeling in the middle of the street.

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Somehow, I think idiots like my mother who can ask the same question repeatedly of an invariant and expect a different answer each time, need to repeat high school mathematics or have their diploma revoked..

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You know, if it wasn’t for having to read things like ToLongADamnTypeName toLongAVarName = new ToLongADamnTypeName() like constructs in all three languages, I could really get to like C# for cross platform work.

^_^ If only because Novel(mono) and Microsoft have each produced C# compilers that are 100 times faster than Suns javac, while still compiling faster than many C++ compilers. ^_^

A small victory against pack ratism

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I do believe that my mother has finally realised that she has an *insane* amount of crap hoarded — after finding books apparently left over from high school.

You know, I may not always right but I’m sometimes I’m not wrong either ;).

github and filter-branch fun

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In between being driven crackers, I’ve been *attacking* just about every TODO and item in my backlog. Staying insanely busy has the benefit that there’s minimal time to feel or think, until passing out cold >_>.

Except for a minor issue with power save, and tools for a couple programming languages to be installed, work on my laptop is virtually complete.
One thing I have finally accomplished is preparing my personal git repository for the hub. For almost two years now, I’ve kept the important stuff in my home directory under revision control. Now I at long last have an off-site backup of it, reduce need for pastebins, and I could care less if anyone finds the repo helpful 8=). I’m more concerned about freak system failure here… lol.  Somethings, like my vim files represent like 4 years of work so there is a wee bit of life/time investment here.
Projects get their own repositories as needed but top level stuff in $HOME shares one. Originally I used CVS, since my file server only came with that and RCS, and I didn’t want to bloat it with Subversion. About five months later, I switched to git ;).
Here things are still very simple. The file server has a mirror of any important data, plus it has bare git repositories for various projects: backed up independently of my personal data. Plus project repos on several hosting sites.  It’s good insurance: now my most important files have the same.
And of course being me, it’s obvious that I generated a patch set and skimmed through the 17,000-18,000 some lines of data representing over 200 commits, before I would allow the repo to get pushed into a public place.  I tend to be cautious in what I commit, to much so in fact. This repo however was always meant to be “Private”, and programs sometime become probmatic. I only found one instance where this was a concern, minor but still rather something that should be compromised.
The solution of course is to just rewrite history:




$ git filter-branch –tree-filter ‘git ls-files -z “filename glob” |xargs -0 perl -p -i -e “s/secret stuff/Censored By The Git History Cops!/g”‘ — –all




$ git gc –aggressive –prune




$ git push –force origin




$ git remote add github git@github.com:Spidey01/Terry.git


$ git push github master








Also being myself, I made sure to first test the filter-branch in a fresh clone into /tmp, back up my .git directory, as well as verifying the log and format-patch output that it worked. Plus since I made a tag of a commit before updating master to reflect it’s current machine: I also made sure to check that the tag remained unchanged from the filter-branch.








and now… I’m to darn tired to do more than pass out.

			


					
			





	

					

						

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To say that I love using git for managing source code, would be the understatement of the year.


The first tool I used was Subversion (around late v1.4/early v1.5), and I rarely had any trouble using CVS either. I can basically pick up and figure out any tool given a decent manual or enough kick around time.


It’s like having a freaking swiss army knife of managing changesets, having git in hand :-S

			


					
			






	

					

						

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You know you need a new life when you dream of the zombie apocalypse like it’s just another work day.

			


					
			





	

					

				
This really did make me laugh out loud
		

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“If I had a nickel for every time I’ve written “for (i = 0; i < N; i++)” in C I’d be a millionaire.”


– Mike Vanier






Even more so because for stuff I’ve in mind to write, involves noting that inescapable fact of C programming :-o.

			


					
			





	

					

						

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He that teaches himself has a fool for a master.


—Benjamin Franklin