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Andy "Krazy" Glew is a computer architect, a long time poster on comp.arch ... and an evangelist of collaboration tools such as wikis, calendars, blogs, etc. Plus an occasional commentator on politics, taxes, and policy. Particularly the politics of multi-ethnic societies such as Quebec, my birthplace.

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

VCS thoughts

Some fast, probably cryptic, thoughts after a day merging with a "I wasn't familiar with it originally but I am painfully familiar ...

"system/command" versus "system command"

A lot of tools have a master command with subcommands. For example hg clone ... hg merge cvs co cvs update git clomne ... I think tha...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Mercurial whine: hg merge -r tip is NOT the same as hg merge -r default Because Mercurial's tip may be on a branch. tip is jus...

Tentative checkin for branch only, not to be merged?

Here's another: Working on a branch, I just did a pull, and merged from trunk onto the beranch. I notice that somebody else has a mino...

AFAICT Mercurial only allows you to merge entire changesets. Here is an example of why I may want to do a merge at lower granularity: I...

Saturday, January 14, 2012

I'd like to have a text parser, like Perl CPAN Text::ParseWords, that *only* breaks the text into words - but which does not transfor...

Sunday, January 08, 2012

Thumb drive as a webserver / NAS

I wish that I could find a flash drive that acted as a NAS. Most USB flash drives are passive storage. Encryption is done by the OS you pl...

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