Archive for the 'SourceControl' Category

Git

20Dec08

One of the changes I’ve made to my development environment over the last few months was a transition from subversion to Git. I’ve been watching the progress of Git for the last 12 months or so, and finally decided it was getting mature enough to move. I’m very glad I did. I much prefer the [...]


It has been so long since I’ve written anything to this blog. I didn’t actually think anyone read it, but then Phil Windley twittered me about using the twitter/SVN commit hook post so I figured it’s showing up somewhere.
The latest change I’ve made to my Ubuntu work is to start using IntelliJ Idea 8 for [...]


Partly out of curiosity, and partly because I wanted to play with the twitter API, I’ve hacked together a little script to push subversion commit details to twitter. It’s actually so simple it isn’t funny.
You will need:

A twitter account. Username and password. Duh.
A subversion repository. Duh.
The ‘curl’ utility.

I’m running subversion on a Linux machine that [...]