Comments on: Stupid software tricks

By: brianenigma

brianenigma — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:38:57 +0000

Oops, no. PLEASE don’t mention large binary files! Hey, why is this update over my DSL talking 5 minutes?

Yeah, I noticed your .cvsrc later–I guess I did not read carefully enough at first. Sorry.

One of these days, I want to try Subversion. While I love being an early adopter, I am a little nervous about early-adopting an entire source control system…

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 12 Oct 2003 00:06:25 +0000

You can get Boreale in Ottawa by driving to Hull! As far as I can tell it's only available in Quebec. And yes, not just beer but Quebecois beer (and mostly Unibroue at that)! My workstation is boreale, Candice's is quelquechose, my laptop is maudite, the firewall is griffon, the Mac is (Blanche de) chambly, the Qube that will be the mp3 player is bolduc, and the SS20 soon to be running a tape library is ephemere.

By: reddragdiva

reddragdiva — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:19:36 +0000

"Type cat | cc and get it right the first time."

By: flipzagging

flipzagging — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:12:19 +0000

‘boreale’ makes me nostalgic. Are all your hostnames different beers? Can you get that in Ottawa? It’s unheard-of here.

ObOnTopic: uhh… CVS sucks. The Cederqvist book reveals some secrets, which tricks you into thinking that you’re winning, but you’re just losing less.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:30:12 +0000

You want to start me on that too? :-) I get frustrated reading that because it's as much advocacy and PEBCAK as it is broken software. I go read up every now and again but I don't really plan on being a regular -- that sort of advocacy is not much fun. (This sort is fun though.) Besides, I have here to post :-)

By: citizenx

citizenx — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:58:09 +0000

I was thinking about the fact that I have two tattoos and I’m now back living with my father, who only knows about one of them. Then I got to thinking of the different ways to state the above information (he doesn’t know about half of them, I have one he doesn’t know about, he only knows about one of them, etc.) and the different mental images you would construct from hearing that and not being privy to all of the information. I considered asking others what they thought about this, which led me to think of posting it to an LJ community. In the end, I didn’t do anything because I didn’t want to suffer through grammarpolice giving me shit about sentences ending with a preposition or linguaphiles saying something about it being a single-language question.

Because, y’know, who doesn’t like getting responses that are answers to completely different questions?

THANKS FOR PLAYING!

By: frobisher

frobisher — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 03:07:22 +0000

Methinks someone is ready for a post to the hates-software mailing list...

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:36:57 +0000

I checked the rules, and it appears the “watched 12 hours of LOTR in one sitting” ring takes precedence anyhow. But I tried!

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:31:42 +0000

I’m pretty familiar with CVS; that’s what we use to manage forked and locally-generated packages for our Linux distribution. It’s just stupid, hostile, and poorly documented. I don’t think you’ll find many people that use CVS heavily on a daily basis that wouldn’t agree with one or more of those descriptions occasionally. We’ve got a lot in CVS and some of the breakage we’ve experienced has been interesting, to say the least. (Fixing it is my problem.)

Should I talk about large binary files and CVS? No? Ok.

Also, you can put different options for different commands in your .cvsrc file, right?

Well, yes, that’s what I described in my post up there.

But you can’t do what I complained about — make only “update” quiet — because you can only pass “-q” as a global option. If you could pass “-q” to a subcommand — and since it’s unique it’s unambiguous and the only reason it doesn’t work is because they didn’t feel like it (strongly enough to make a specific error message for that condition). If I could put “update -q” in .cvsrc I would be a happy camper (in this regard — this is not my only complaint about this particular source motel), but I can’t.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:24:23 +0000

Holy cow, I’m starting to think you’re not being ironic here.