Krazy Glew's Blog

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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Friday, January 20, 2012

Tagging is so passe'

Tagging is so passe'. Manually adding keywords to stuff you do. What we need is "tag suggestion" software. Software that ...

AAdvantage versus Account Aggregation

I just learned that American Airlines' AAdvantage frequent flyer program has sent cease and desist letters to account aggregators. (Th...

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Branch purpose commit message

I would still like to have a commit message that I write at the time I generate a branch, saying why I am bothering tio generate a named bra...

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...

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