This is mundane, but something I will no doubt forget, and so for my own posterity: The svn diff is monochrome by default. Let’s install colordiff and change that. sudo apt-get install colordiff vi ~/.subversion/config In the [helpers]

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This is based on the excellent work of Aaron Hoffman which he’s written up here. This process adds two git hooks to your repositories which prevent you from committing or pushing to a branch named master. Add directories Git hooks liv...

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I am using Git on the command line in Windows via msysgit. As with all msys installs whenever you press backspace and there is no more text to delete or you press TAB for auto-complete when there are multiple options, your speaker utters an horrendous, ugly beep. To disable this, load msys and find o...

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The Abyss Web Server is tiny, fast, and pretty goddamn amazing. The Windows installer is 144k, and sets itself up, providing a web interface to all of its configuration. Despite its tiny footprint (for example, the executable file size of the Windows version is less than 112 KB); it supports HTTP/1.1, dynamic content generation ...

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