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Archive for July, 2005

Overheard in San Francisco. –So what have you been doing? –I was in the Marines for five weeks. –Five weeks? What happened? –Well, I’m not there now.

First impressions of FC4

Since the last month has been quite thoroughly insane, I have only just gotten around to installing Fedora Core 4 on my desktop and laptop. So far, I have been quite impressed. GNOME didn’t keel over and die on me after the upgrade, though it briefly behaved in a peculiar manner on the laptop. [...]

Bye, Charlie

Nine years ago. I break up with the first girlfriend I had after I moved to California. As Sunnyvale is a wretched place to live, particularly if you’re in your early twenties, newly single, and full of piss, I up and move to San Francisco. I teach myself to navigate by driving through [...]
A snapshot of what it’s like with a wife on bed rest: Son ambles in at six thirty. “Let’s watch Spider-Man!” Decides my slothful motions are not indicative of Spider-Man watching; visits wife. Get up. Find son and wife curled up, asleep. Damn, that’s cute. Make breakfasts for family. Fuss over wife. [...]
Until now, Mercurial only supported tunnelling over an ssh connection when pushing changes to a remote repository. Matt just committed some changes that lets all commands that talk to other repositories work over ssh tunnels.
I implemented a locate command that finds files in a repository by pattern. Here’s a simple example: $ hg locate ‘*.c’ mercurial/bdiff.c mercurial/mpatch.c
I have started doing regular automated builds of Mercurial, and packaging up the results for Fedora Core 2 and 3. These builds are performed four times a day, and the results are available here. Due to the vagaries of my local setup, I have i386 packages available for FC2 and FC3, and x86_64 for FC3 [...]
Goffredo Baroncelli has contributed a patch to add RSS 2.0 support to Mercurial’s HTTP serving capabilities. This means that you can subscribe to a Mercurial repository using the RSS feed reader of your choice, and be notified when someone publishes new changes.
I have implemented a revert command that lets you undo uncommitted modifications.

Mercurial hacking

Since I started looking at Mercurial a few days ago, I’ve been hacking quite heavily on it. I’ll try to make some time to write about it here, but much of what I’ve been doing is documented on the Mercurial wiki that I’ve put together.