Shark!

A shark, a lot of little fish, and a few trees in one picture:

Shark, fish, tree

Taken at “Atlantis”, Paradise Island, The Bahamas.

Scary Git Grep

I wanted to know when a certain identifier was introduced in goffice.
It turned out that it was fairly simple:

  git grep -w GO_FORMAT_MARKUP `git tag -l 'GOFFICE*'` -- '*.h'

That commands searches all .h files from all Goffice releases.
It is very fast: about 0.5s (cpu time) on a fairly slow machine.

How do I do that with SVN?

10x+ Better Compression Than Gzip

I wanted to create an archive of all released Gnumeric versions.
Gnumeric’s CVS tree saw a lot of hacking on the ,v files so neither
CVS nor the derived SVN tree are useful for reconstructing past
releases. They are useful for tracking a given file’s history
minus the renames it went through.

So I hacked up a script to create a git archive for me. (You cannot actually run that script, though: it hits a “tar” bug — ick! And after hacking that, beware that it takes a long, long time to run.)

Total size of 172 tar files: 1508026377 bytes.
Total size of git archive: 139733921 bytes
Ratio: 10.8

Not too shabby, eh? Even if the corpus is pretty special.

Seeing what changed between releases is as
simple as git diff -u GNUMERIC_1_7_0..GNUMERIC_1_7_1
and very fast.