Archive for the 'SCM' Category

What’s your history|awk…

Via Bill de hÓra. Run this from the command line:
history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s “,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
I get:
108 ls
78 cd
53 sudo
29 python
13 cap
9 django-admin.py
9 ruby
8 vim
6 easy_install
3 bzr
1 ex
1 python2.5
1 ln
1 mksir
1 cat
1 cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc
In short:

I have trouble with my default python installation.
I am trying Django for small project.
I was hit by the Leopard keyboard repeat freeze bug.
I am poor at spelling simple commands.

First impressions of Mercurial (as an alternative to subversion)

So, I was in the mall the other day where I bumped into Marcus Ahnve. He mentioned that he had been using Mercurial instead of Subversion for his latest project.
Just before I met Marcus I had been coding on a rails project housed in subversion. I was sitting in a cafe without internet access which […]