The Scribbler of the Rueful Countenance

Month: January 2011

  • I don’t hate git as much anymore…

    So a partial retraction to my previous post… It turns out that git has something called a reflog, which seems to be purely documented in the git-reflog(1) manpage, and to my taste, rather tersely. It appears that git does keep at least a partial log of recent operations so it’s possible, with varying degrees of…

  • I hate git

    … or at least I hate it for now. I’m a Mercurial kinda guy (hereafter hg). Mercurial is the version control system (VCS) that Octave uses, so that’s mostly the reason why I started using it too. I started reading about it, and learning it, and liking it a lot. It makes a lot of…