brool

brool \brool\ (n.) : a low roar; a deep murmur or humming

Posting To WordPress From Git

Monday, July 27th, 2009
I’ve found WordPress to be pretty decent, aside from the security updates every other week, but for me writing is a very spur of the moment thing; I prefer to be able to go into Emacs and just immediately type anything without having to log into my blog, create a new post, and then suffer [...]

Recovering From A –hard Reset In Git

Saturday, April 18th, 2009
I was switching between git repositories the other day, and managed to do a “git reset –hard HEAD^” in the wrong repository. Which wasn’t bad, since I had most of the files already open in Emacs… but then Emacs calmly told me that it was re-reading the files from disk. But, git had everything still [...]

Poison Reverts in Git

Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Alice owns the main branch that a bunch of people are using: A — B — C — D Bob checks it out, makes changes 0..2, and does regular pulls: A — B — 0 — 1 — C — 2 — D Now, Alice pulls Bob’s stuff: she has A — B — C [...]