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Converting part of a svn repository to git

Published by Jeremy on October 27, 2011

In moving my projects over to git, I stumbled across a troublesome issue. In one of my projects existed a folder along side trunk, tags and branches that had stuff I needed to be converted. However I wanted to convert these as individual git repositories. So, after reading “git –help svn clone” and finding nothing …

Preventing access to drives on Windows 7

Published by Jeremy on August 10, 2011

I added boot camp to one of my macs and happy found that that Windows 7 supports reading HFS drives. Which means it had access to my Mac OS X installation. Sadly it didn’t keep the user permissions setup and I could see everything from all users. Not acceptable for a family used computer. So …

Mac OS X deleting users

Published by Jeremy on February 16, 2011

I had a issue with my laptops video card dieing. None the less thanks to a class action lawsuit and some work by Apple, I have been able to get my video card replaced for free (See: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377). The nicest thing is that this is costing me $0 dollars to fix and ship back to …

Removing everything other than .svn

Published by Jeremy on August 10, 2010

After I updated some code, I was downloading it into my local svn repository and planned to do a svn commit. I thought I had set my FTP settings correctly to merge folders, but alas I didn’t. What I ended up with was a broken svn working copy. So I decided to pull another checkout …