Git on Windows: “You have some suspicious patch lines”
Update 2008-04-24: as commenter Jakub Narebski correctly points out, it should be better to use core.autocrlf and crlf attribute for resolving this issue, but I have had no chance to test this up to...
View ArticleWaiting for WLAN and UMTS for OpenMoko
I am currently thinking a lot about the OpenMoko project. Unfortunately OpenMoko at the moment provides hardware which is limited to GPRS, Bluetooth, and/or USB 1.0 for connectivity. In autumn there...
View Articlegit-svn on Windows (cygwin)
Update 2008-10-10: Often perl will not work due to memory-remapping problems. A solution can be found in my article about the issue. What I really love about Git is the fact that it nicely integrates...
View ArticleContent-aware image resizing
Krispin made me aware of a very cool new technique for resizing images: content-aware image resizing. Based on an energy-function path of an image are removed when shrinking or are duplicated and...
View Article.NET strings are not always immutable!
Strings are immutable. If you want to modify a sequence of characters, use StringBuilder. At least, that’s whats officially said. But in the framework there is at least one method that does modify a...
View Articlegit-svn fails with fatal error: unable to remap
Git‘s nice Subversion (SVN) integration is one of the reasons I switched to using it within our company for my own revision control besides our official repository. Unfortunately, upgrading cygwin...
View ArticleMy initial git settings for any repository
This is my cheat sheet for the settings I use for my git-repositories (list to be edited continuously): Global settings: git config –global user.name Martin Carpella git config –global user.email...
View ArticleHow to force Git to consider a file as binary
If you are using Git on Windows and follow my advise on how to get past the problem with the “suspicious patch lines”, you might run into problems if you are using Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files...
View ArticleThe power of git aliases
Based on a recent question on stackoverflow I found the power of git aliases and want so share one I invented for answering the question and after that I found very useful in everyday git use: git...
View Articlecygwin & Play Framework / Typesafe Activator
I am currently playing around with using Play Framework on cygwin. I noticed that Typesafe Activator, which has replaced the play command in recent Play versions, ruins the mintty terminal of cygwin:...
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