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20080820 Wednesday August 20, 2008

Goodbye Solaris 9 (for Sun Studio)


We're making the internal transition to building Sun Studio on Solaris 10 (instead of Solaris 9). This is a big deal because the product bits immediately become useless on any Solaris 9 system. There's a new libm.so.2 library that became available on Solaris 10, and if you depend on it, you can't run on Solaris 9. It's a challenge making sure our vast ocean of loosely maintained lab machines is ready for the change. The good news is we get to use newer, faster hardware. :-)

I'll make this post short because I'm using ScribeFire for the first time in forever, and I don't trust it. I can't believe blogging is still this hard. :-(

Posted by Chris Quenelle ( Aug 20 2008, 06:15:17 PM PDT ) - Permalink - Comments [0] -

20080506 Tuesday May 06, 2008

git user's guide? I've been trying to study up on git recently. There don't seem to be any books available on it. I've read a few introductions. I had a few minutes to play with it last week, and I got to the point where I thought: "Okay. I want to do X. I know there's a way, how do I do it?" The only thing I could find was a long list of individual git commands. There seem to be three different things (from the user's point of view) that are operated on by git commands.

If the man page synopsis of each command explicitly said what operations are performed on each of these three objects, then I think I'd be set. But the summaries are ambiguous. One problem is that most commands have a common option that is used to say if you want to also update to skip updating the index or working directory, etc. So I think my next step is to make a table of the most common commands, with three columns, summarizing the affects that each command has on each of the three different parts of a git workspace. Roman just recommended this page. I haven't read it yet.
Posted by Chris Quenelle ( May 06 2008, 11:37:00 PM PDT ) - Permalink - Comments [3] -

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