Update: Ooops, I guess we gone incremented the year again… and no one thought to tell me 
ACTA
It’s comforting to know that the people we elect to rule us at least know what they’re doing… Oh… wait…
git and branches
Last week, for the first time, I think I groked branches. The headline mentions git branches, and if they are different from other VCS’ branches, then last week I think I groked git branches 
I’ve known about branching for quite a while, but never gotten past anything other than a rudimentary understanding.
I think I understood how mercurial does it (simply clone the repository, name the root directory of that clone to whatever you want to call that branch, and presto. (And yes, I am aware that mercurial has a branch command as well, so my understanding on that point is probably incorrect).
Either way, what finally gave me an “aha”-moment was this blogpost.
And while one the subject: Other uses of git. I am going to take a closer look at especially Prophet.
Links
- Transparent multi-hop SSH — This is pretty frakkin cool, using your ~/.ssh/config file and the ProxyCommand you can simplify connecting to a remote host which you’d have to reach by connecting through other hosts. Nice!
- And while on the subject of SSH: /bin/false is NOT security
- Yet another blog post which makes me realize that I have a lot more to learn about Vim
- Butthurt much, RIAA?
- This was a pretty cool experiment
No but seriously, frakking do it. Automation ftw.
