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gource: OpenGL-based 3D visualisation tool for source control repositories

milton — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:42:04 +0000

Too much fun the tool I’ve came to know through my friend Adenilson’s blog. In a glance one can explore effort put into a project in a way much better than any other command-line or graphical application known.

The only boring thing is to use it in my machine, a hp pavilion dv4-2167sb, which, AFAIK, still lacks a good graphical acceleration support.

I’ve made a very basic debian package (using checkinstall) for people too lazy to compile/install by themselves.

Enjoy it and have fun!

Git Empty Branches

milton — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:38:15 +0000

Found out some interesting Git Hints presented as webcasts at the site below. The most interesting part was to learn how to create empty branches on it, so a project can be functionally separated without having to kludge your working dir with several directories.

GitCasts: Empty Branches

Summarizing the lesson:

$ git-symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/emptybranch
$ git-rm --cached -r .
$ git-commit --allow-empty -m "Initial commit for empty branch"

The library versus website example was perfect, but one can think about other relevant situations, like sub-projects inside a bigger project, management documentation or even meta-files configuring the repository itself (description and ACL).

Git References’ Pointers

milton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:47:39 +0000

Earlier this year I’ve spent some time gathering references to study Git, the version control system everybody seems to love nowadays.

Thankfully, someone took the time to bind several useful links in one central webpage. If you wanna start studying Git, that’s the place to start. Kudos for such practical people (more specifically Scott Charcon and Petr Baudis).

http://git-scm.com/documentation

Just for reference, I’ll paste below the stuff I had.

Forwarded conversation
Subject: Git Documentation Pointers
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From: Milton Soares
Date: Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 12:33 PM

Hi.

Just to organize and share all the references I’ve gathered about Git learning.

On-line Resources

$ git help git
$ man gittutorial

Git Homepage Resources

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html

SVN to Git crash course

http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html

Recording of the Git tutorial given by Bart Trojanowski for the OGRE

http://excess.org/article/2008/07/ogre-git-tutorial/

Palestra Git para o Google by Linux Torvalds

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Git from the bottom up

http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/git.from.bottom.up.php

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From: Milton Soares
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:36 PM

More pointers:

GitWine – git tips by wine people

http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine#head-079f5369fdb9346845a4a8c82475eb7a198312be

Git Wizardry

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/index.html

Git Wiki

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/

Git Cheat Sheet

http://ktown.kde.org/~zrusin/git/

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From: Milton Soares Filho
Date: Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM

Yet another usefull link (pretty graphical explanations on git objects).

Tv’s cobweb: Git for Computer Scientists

http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/