Re: [OCLUG-Tech] some weird shell parameter substitution constructs

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 2018-04-08 04:21 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > and there's this near the top: > > > > KUBERNETES_RELEASE_URL="${KUBERNETES_RELEASE_URL:-https://dl.k8s.io}; > > > > ok, that will admittedly set that variable

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] some weird shell parameter substitution constructs

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 2018-04-08 04:21 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > not sure if i'm reading a shell script properly ... here's a script > > for downloading and installing kubernetes: > > > > https://get.kubernetes.io/ > > >

[OCLUG-Tech] some weird shell parameter substitution constructs

not sure if i'm reading a shell script properly ... here's a script for downloading and installing kubernetes: https://get.kubernetes.io/ but it seems to be doing strange (messy) things with parameter substitution. first, there's this bit of weirdness partway through the script: if

[OCLUG-Tech] gnu make: the superfluous use of "||:"

digging through the build system for the hyperledger fabric distributed ledger technology, and noticed something in the Makefile i'd never seen before that took me a couple seconds to recognize: .PHONY: clean clean: docker-clean unit-test-clean release-clean -@rm -rf build ||:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/03/18 Robert P. J. Day said: > > > again, as i mentioned, i do understand the value of xargs > > because of the plethora of useful "tricks" like the above, but > > those features aside, the basic question i

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, James wrote: > It is necessary for running a command on all files matching a > pattern. i'm pretty sure that's not true. > Wildcarding substitutes the full file names of each matching result > of the wildcard on the command line. Thousands of matching > names/paths can

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is "xargs" really still useful just for limiting command line size?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:59:53 -0400 > "Michael P. Soulier" <msoul...@digitaltorque.ca> wrote: > > > On 16/03/18 Robert P. J. Day said: > > > > > course i taught recently had a section on "xargs&qu

[OCLUG-Tech] what is the purpose of the "-w" option of "sysctl" command?

just noticed something odd ... on my fedora 27 system, the man page for sysctl reads under PARAMETERS: variable=value To set a key, use the form variable=value where variable is the key and value is the value to set it to. If the value contains quotes or characters

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there a FHS/LSB rationale for installing in /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin?

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 2018-03-14 05:22 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > obviously, it's not a big deal since both /usr/bin and /usr/sbin are > > part of the normal search path for even regular users, > > Only on an improperly configured s

[OCLUG-Tech] is there a FHS/LSB rationale for installing in /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin?

more nitpicky pedantry, but i was summarizing some handy system H/W utilities and noticed that, while lsusb and lspci philosophically do the same thing (that is, display system info), on my fedora system, they are installed differently: $ type lsusb lsusb is /usr/bin/lsusb $ type lspci

[OCLUG-Tech] does anyone use "star" for ACL-aware archiving?

was recently asked if i could teach a course to prepare some folks to write the RHCSA (red hat certified sys admin) exam, so i was reviewing the official list of what they would need to know here:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does current gnu grep support EREs out of the box?

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 2018-03-06 05:35, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > course i taught last week provided courseware that distinguished > > between grep's basic RE support and "extended" RE support, which > > surprised me as,

[OCLUG-Tech] does current gnu grep support EREs out of the box?

course i taught last week provided courseware that distinguished between grep's basic RE support and "extended" RE support, which surprised me as, on my fedora 27 system, the man page for grep has the following snippets: "In addition, the variant programs egrep and fgrep are the same as grep

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what the heck is the rationale for 'X' in chmod command?

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 2018-02-23 02:51 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i can't believe i've never noticed the 'X' (upper case) permission > > setting for the chmod command, explained thusly in the man page: > > > > "Th

[OCLUG-Tech] what the heck is the rationale for 'X' in chmod command?

led. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days? > > tar? rsync? amanda? > > I use rsync.

[OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

from using it. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjda

[OCLUG-Tech] thank y'all for taking so much of that excess off my hands

after dragging in three boxes of stuff last night to OCLUG meeting, i was left with just a couple dev kits and a couple books. i still have a fair bit more i'm pawing through, i may have another pile of stuff to give away at the next meeting as well. rday

[OCLUG-Tech] prelinimary list of dev kits coming to meeting on thursday

http://crashcourse.ca/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=oclug_dev_kits the list might get longer by then. and i'm bringing a box of books as well. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OCLUG-Tech] looking for recommendations for portable MP3/FLAC music player

currently ripping my girifriend's entire CD collection to FLAC format and, naturally, she wants to be able to take some significant subset of that with her on her travels. i'm ripping to FLAC as i want to, at some point, set up an in-home (linux-based) music server and, from FLAC, i can always

[OCLUG-Tech] why does g++ not issue a narrowing error?

currently rewriting my C++ courses from some time back, and wanted to demonstrate a simply narrowing error; to wit: int main() { bool b1 {true}; bool b2 {false}; bool b3 {7};// narrowing error? int i {42}; int j {42.1}; // narrowing error? }

[OCLUG-Tech] recommendations for decent, online blockchain tutorials?

a couple friends who are business-savvy but not tech-savvy have asked me to explain blockchains to them, and i'm embarrassed to admit i haven't dug into that deeply, so i figured i might as well figure it out ... i've found a number of what look like passable online tutorials, wondering if

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] fastest way to do full home dir backup to fresh HD?

ttachment. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com

[OCLUG-Tech] fastest way to do full home dir backup to fresh HD?

of the USB port and i'm currently doing it the slowest way possible. thoughts? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Certified RHEL7 laptop?

idn't work with a major linux distro. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[OCLUG-Tech] last reminder of free git talk/pizza lunch downtown today

-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

[OCLUG-Tech] don't forget -- pizza and git this friday at the code factory

reminder that this friday is free pizza lunch at http://www.thecodefactory.ca/ downtown, where i will regale one and all with a 1-hour tutorial on git, so if you have friends or colleagues who work downtown who would be interested, let them know and somehow keep me in the loop so we know how

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for decent sites for C++11 references/tutorials

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > On 2017-11-22 06:14 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i'm teaching 5 days worth of C++11 in january, already been handed > > the courseware, and i'd like to put together a page of quality links > > to C++11/14/17

[OCLUG-Tech] looking for decent sites for C++11 references/tutorials

some recommendations, that would be just ducky. thank you kindly. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[OCLUG-Tech] wrapping up one contract, might be looking for another

. -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

[OCLUG-Tech] what is the meaning of leading "_" in gcc function calls?

t mean? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rp

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i set up a d-link DCS-936L network camera to view via linux?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 2017-09-20 07:17, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > > On 2017-09-20 04:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > &

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i set up a d-link DCS-936L network camera to view via linux?

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > > > On 2017-09-20 04:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > in short, at least for this camera, i absolutely require an > > > android or iphone with the d-link app fo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i set up a d-link DCS-936L network camera to view via linux?

r iphone with the d-link app for the initial configuration, which is kind of a pain, unless i have this completely wrong. am i at least understanding all this correctly? rday --

[OCLUG-Tech] is there a way to identify superfluous .gitignore lines?

it check-ignore" that will scan the hierarchy of .gitignore files once that build is done and display the .gitignore entries for which there are no matches? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ott

[OCLUG-Tech] "git filter-branch" to undo the effect of a single commit that added stuff?

his do what it appears to do? or am i making this too difficult? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday Li

[OCLUG-Tech] a couple questions on "git filter-branch", if i may

er the docs, and if anyone wants to provide a link to a really good tutorial on git filter-branch apart from the standard docs, feel free. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OCLUG-Tech] what is the shortest *realistic* .dts device tree source file?

t of the omap2420-n800.dts file. would it make any sense to not have at least that content in a .dts file? rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://c

[OCLUG-Tech] getting rid of some embedded systems

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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux infotainment/automotive platform questions

ualcomm ... quite the collective of people co-operating to make this happen. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.c

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux infotainment/automotive platform questions

de Linux. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedi

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux infotainment/automotive platform questions

d/yocto project, the downloadable S/W is here: https://wiki.automotivelinux.org/agl-distro/source-code#download_master_branch so anyone can peruse, download and build the code themselves. rday -- ============ Robert P. J. Day

[OCLUG-Tech] is there any way to see the staged/unstaged changes in a stash?

here's a simpler way, no? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter

[OCLUG-Tech] any git command to recursively display a commit in the object store?

iately see the commit/tree/blob relationships? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[OCLUG-Tech] need some advice on how to prune my current wiki so i can move it

suspect i haven't specified all the info necessary to get a meaningful answer to this, so any guidance would be appreciated. where should i start? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario

[OCLUG-Tech] can one hack PAM to reuse a password that's not supposed to be reused?

remembered passwords? just curious. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.

[OCLUG-Tech] looking for a new host for my web site for april 1

-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

[OCLUG-Tech] where downtown (byward market) can i donate cables?

cleaning out the place, and have, literally, bags of net and USB cables and other stuff. is there a geek-oriented charity i can dump this with that could make use of it? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[OCLUG-Tech] how can i display what remote a git branch name maps to without tracking it?

f i add several remotes.) rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twit

[OCLUG-Tech] what exactly does a "git fetch --dry-run" do?

s from the remote. so why is it referred to as a "dry run" when stuff is actually being fetched? that seems just a tad misleading. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OCLUG-Tech] what do people recommend for git "submodules"?

i mean, other than actual submodules, if one wants to lock a number of git repos together with versioning, are submodules generally considered adequate? i've heard a lot of dissatisfaction with submodules, and a few people have recommended moving up to using "repo" to accomplish the same thing.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:48:15AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > perfect example: "how do i find the Nth last version of a file?" > > now, you can certainly do this in git, using "git log", then extract > >

[OCLUG-Tech] is there a revision symbol for the root commit?

embarrassed to admit i don't know this, but is there a revision symbol for a repo's root commit? i don't think i've ever seen that mentioned anywhere. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa

[OCLUG-Tech] what does git not do *easily* you shouldn't be doing anyway?

t of info. in any event, any thoughts on the sorts of things people do with other VCSes for which there is no immediate git counterpart, but for which there is no comprehensible need to do that in the first place? rday -- =============

[OCLUG-Tech] would local people take training courses on a weekend?

-- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday

[OCLUG-Tech] is there a recipe to display the git object store hierarchically?

hat? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does a DVCS *necessarily* mirror the entire repo history?

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Alex Pilon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:43:34AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > (side note: currently updating all my git wiki pages and tutorials, > > so i'll be asking a number of questions about git, including > > apparently trivial ones

[OCLUG-Tech] does a DVCS *necessarily* mirror the entire repo history?

oretically, it might be possible to still have some sort of distributed operation where you don't have the entire repo history on your local machine. thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ott

[OCLUG-Tech] curious about people using git on mac or windows

don't know if that's entirely current, so what is the current best practices for getting git on mac and windows from people actually using it on those platforms? thanks muchly. rday -- Robert P. J. Day

[OCLUG-Tech] anyone want/need a Samsung 950 Pro 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0X4 SSD?

amazon.ca price. let me know if you're interested. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter:

[OCLUG-Tech] anyone have experience porting C# .NET app to linux?

ducky. depending on the work involved, there might be some consulting work here, but i can't make that kind of promise. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA

[OCLUG-Tech] your morning entertainment -- linux torvalds and git keyword expansion

once upon a time, some poor sod submitted a patch to add keyword expansion to git ... unsurprisingly, it did not end well. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/44750/focus=44762 rday -- Robert P. J

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone up for an OCLUG discussion on how to set up a linux dev environment?

per that's worked on various linux projects (particularly kernel or embedded based), what things would you have changed at your various contracts in order to be more productive? rday -- ======== Robert

[OCLUG-Tech] any thoughts on the deprecation of the "-I-" cpp search path option?

of a chaotic situation. perhaps there's a build environment design for which that makes sense, but it strikes me as completely unpredictable if others are allowed to make changes to header file override directories that will affect *your* build. thoughts? --

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] git question: how can i drop the n'th last commit?

On Tue, 10 May 2016, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 16/05/10, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > SCENARIO: most recent 5 commits on a clean, linear history branch: > > > > ... X <--- A <--- B <--- C <--- D <--- E (HEAD) > > > > suddenly, i

[OCLUG-Tech] git question: how can i drop the n'th last commit?

lar rebase? thoughts? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn:

[OCLUG-Tech] peoples' preference for git submodule/subtree/subdir?

. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

[OCLUG-Tech] couple questions about git

more questions coming shortly ... rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday Link

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Pure NFS 4 mounts

never bothered to test it because they still > like supporting insane things like NFS 3. i recall asking very much this question way back in 2013: http://marc.info/?t=13875500889=1=2 rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day

[OCLUG-Tech] still confused about the use of (now obsolete) "-I-" option of gcc

. can someone just reply to this email, to make sure my email is working properly? weird things have been happening so i just want to confirm things are getting out and being read. thank you kindly. -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] suggestions for M.2-format PCIe SSD drive for new laptop?

Quoting Spencer Cheng <sch...@aotera.org>: On Jan 30, 2016, at 9:14, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: (frighteningly, my new laptop has two slots ... oh, the temptation) It’s only money, right? :-) anyway, are there other sources i should be

[OCLUG-Tech] suggestions for M.2-format PCIe SSD drive for new laptop?

now that i resolved the issue i was having with the M.2 SSD drive i bought for my new laptop (had SATA interface, laptop takes PCIe), any recommendations on such things, either locally or online? i know they're not going to be cheap -- PCIe interface seems to run about double the price of

[OCLUG-Tech] trying to get my new ASUS laptop to see a M.2 SSD drive

(i've asked about this on the fedora list, but i figured i'd check out the local expertise as well to see if someone can supply some advice.) i just bought a new ASUS laptop: http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_1199_id=088275 and a 480G ADATA M.2-format SSD drive:

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] trying to get my new ASUS laptop to see a M.2 SSD drive

Quoting ProfJCNash : Possibly silly thought: Can you check that SSD is functional in another machine of some sort? arrrggghhh ... never mind, spencer cheng asked the right question, as in what interface it uses. the laptop has PCIe slots, but the SSD uses a SATA III

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] trying to get my new ASUS laptop to see a M.2 SSD drive

Quoting Spencer Cheng <sch...@aotera.org>: On Jan 19, 2016, at 7:51, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: arrrggghhh ... never mind, spencer cheng asked the right question, as in what interface it uses. the laptop has PCIe slots, but the SSD uses a SATA III inte

[OCLUG-Tech] map kernel memory to user space without /dev/mem or knowing phys addresses?

quite possibly a silly question since i'm really supposed to know this stuff but what's the canonical way to map a number of memory areas from a single device into a process's user space if one doesn't know the underlying physical addresses? first, i don't want to use /dev/mem since that

[OCLUG-Tech] why can't linux use a DOS-formatted root filesystem?

i know, it sounds like a moderately inane question, but it came up in the context of a legacy, DOS-formatted system where the quest was to install linux, *but* retain the option of backtracking to DOS in case things didn't go well, and the proposal was to retain the DOS formatting of the

[OCLUG-Tech] optimal choice for filesystem type for SSD drive doing big builds?

? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO image?

On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, James wrote: > > > On 2016-01-06 05:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Shawn H Corey wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) > > > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO image?

On Wed, 6 Jan 2016, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:39:20 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > > so what's the secret? > > Usually, I use `gparted`. It's a graphical disk partitioner and > formatter. Downloadabl

[OCLUG-Tech] how to format a USB drive for windows to get at an ISO image?

to? and once i do that, write and quit, which variation of "mkfs" should i run? this really shouldn't be that hard, but i just can't make it work. rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontar

[OCLUG-Tech] how to track the latest version of a file via gitweb?

mething like: http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=tree;f=board/ti/am335x;hb=HEAD am i assuming correctly? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://cra

[OCLUG-Tech] question about "missing" branches and "git pull --rebase"

d rebasing master do they "reappear". but that's just a guess, i really have no idea. can someone explain this more definitively? thanks. rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ott

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for advice on running solaris live for a class

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Murphy Scott wrote: > OmniOS is an opensolaris successor that runs as a live DVD. I do > know that it is active, they had a booth at the conference I was > attending last week. > > http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/WikiStart > > Oracle was there as well and Oracle Solaris 11

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] can i "git checkout" an earlier version of a file *only* into working directory?

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Alex Pilon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:36:06AM -0700, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > is there an option to check the file out only in the working > > directory? > > Not as far as I know, but if you're only doing single files; > > git show v4

[OCLUG-Tech] can i "git checkout" an earlier version of a file *only* into working directory?

mand would be useful. am i overlooking something trivial? rday -- ======== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.c

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] with "git stash {pop, apply}", what is the function of "--keep-index"?

On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > another presumably simple "git stash" question -- when doing either > a "pop" or "apply", what is the purpose of the "--keep-index" option? > from the man page: > > "If the --index

[OCLUG-Tech] with "git stash {pop, apply}", what is the function of "--keep-index"?

; during the pop and i see no difference in the final effect. what is it supposed to do? rday -- ================ Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitt

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] simple question about deleting a branch in git

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 15/09/21, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > perusing o'reilly's "version control with git (2nd ed)", doing more > > proofreading possibly in preparation for a 3rd edition, and ran across > > this passage abo

[OCLUG-Tech] curious about some docker terminology

/image * apache filesystem/image i just like to be precise ... how do others on this list see this? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http

[OCLUG-Tech] i assume there is no august meeting

i see nothing about it on the web site. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[OCLUG-Tech] git fetch versus git fetch --tags?

, in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched. so isn't that suggesting that that command would do the normal fetch of content, *and* get the tags as well? or am i misreading something? rday -- Robert P. J. Day

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what is the function of --keep-index/--no-keep-index with git stash?

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i'm experimenting with variations of git stash and i'm a bit puzzled by one of the save options. what is the effective difference between using --keep-index and using --no-keep-index when saving to the stash? ... snip ... never mind, i

[OCLUG-Tech] what is the function of --keep-index/--no-keep-index with git stash?

in the file .git/refs/stash, so i grabbed the commit ID out of that file, and did a git show on it, and here's what i got: $ git show 70f534241092931d70f352591401e94898d01883 commit 70f534241092931d70f352591401e94898d01883 Merge: d2228e4 edbdb70 Author: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca Date: Wed

[OCLUG-Tech] more trivial git questions: when will git refuse to delete a branch?

is not as clear as it could be. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone out there have serious experience with hardening linux systems?

else who can do it. sorry for the interruption. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[OCLUG-Tech] anyone out there have serious experience with hardening linux systems?

for some work? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday

[OCLUG-Tech] anyone working with atlassian's source tree git client?

to the SourceTree experience in linux. thanks very much. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

[OCLUG-Tech] is the git eclipse plug-in somehow broken?

on the reliability of that plug-in? i'd be a bit shocked if it was that unreliable. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is the git eclipse plug-in somehow broken?

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Jean-François Bilodeau wrote: As a regular Eclipse user (JEE, CTD), I’ve never encountered this… J-F Le 2015-06-12 à 09:10, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca a écrit : was chatting with someone earlier this morning and was told that, at least as recently

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