Archive for the “version control” category
Using hoptoad in open source project deployments
by Kenneth Kalmer on September 26, 2008
It came down on me like a ton of bricks when I deployed the audit updates to our production PowerDNS on Rails setup, hoptoad isn’t installed and any errors would just be gone and forgotten. The solution is pretty simple, (…)
From svn to git, handling non-standard repo layouts
by Kenneth Kalmer on June 16, 2008
Today I finally had to “extract” a project from one of our biggest repos as part of a git migration plan. I’ve converted most of the other smaller projects in the same repo over using just their trunk, and it (…)
Converting a mercurial repo to git
by Kenneth Kalmer on May 3, 2008
Keeping with the exodus from SVN/Mercurial to git, here is a super quick guide for converting a Mercurial repo to git. 1. Get the fast-export script via git git clone git://repo.or.cz/fast-export.git 2. Make a new (empty) git repo for the (…)
