At work we’ve been trying out Gerrit. It is awesome in many ways, and yet in others it is sorely lacking.
One of the more obvious problems is the lack of administration functionality. For example, there is no administration interface for deleting or renaming a project.
However, I needed to rename a project and here is how I did it. Continue reading
I just uploaded It’s All Text! 1.5 to AMO. [edit: It's out!]
Assuming I made no mistakes, then it should appear shortly.
Ever wanted to make an empty branch (with no history in it) in git? It’s not hard…
Why would you want to do this? Well, for example, I have a new project in github. I’m trying to implement it in several ways, jRuby, Java, Qt, etc. Having separate branches is really handy.
Another reason you might want to do this is for upstream tracking. I used this to cold-start a branch where I commit all the changes of an upstream project and then merge them into my customized branch. Git makes tracking an upstream project much easier.
I’m working on the next version of It’s All Text! and it needs a stand-alone editor server. I’ve had a couple false starts other languages but I’m thinking it should be Java or jRuby so that it is fairly portable without me having too much grief. In addition, installing Java is a little more acceptable to a random group of people than installing Ruby (at the moment, it may change in the future).
Actually, I found two projects that make it much more likely I’ll use jRuby instead of Java: Continue reading
I had a wonderful time today doing a Code Retreat at my Conway’s Game of Life. When the 45 minutes are up, you delete all your code, take a break, and do it again with a different partner.