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Pressflow-6 and Pantheon-Mercury on GitHub (updated x2)

Submitted by Damien on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 12:57am

In the past year I've discovered two things:

The revision management system Bazaar (aka "bzr") is an occasionally flaky little thing and I've experienced several crashes doing mundane tasks. I much prefer using Git or even Subversion as they've proven to be rock solid in my use of them over the years.
The Drupal fork Pressflow has a lot going for it.

Downgrading svn repositories from 1.5 to 1.4

Submitted by Damien on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 4:37am

It's an odd situation, but occasionally you need to convert your data to run on an older version of an application rather than the typical upgrade to newer versions. One such situation arose for me recently. I was starting a new project and was beginning to add/change code while working from home after-hours, with obviously no server admins around to IM a request for a new subversion repository. Being the agile developer I am, I figured I'd just create a local repository and upload it when I was next at the office.

One solution for "unexpected T_SR" errors in PHP

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 4:35am

Here's a little tidbit. If you ever get "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SR" errors in PHP, check to see if you had any svn merge conflicts. This error raised its ugle head this evening for me and that's exactly what it turned out to be. Then just bounce over to your svn client of choice, fix the conflict (or just delete the offending files and grab the latest file again), and the error will disappear.

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Why Trac sucks

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 12:01am

Reasons to use Trac:

It has been around for ages so it's pretty well known.
It works with Subversion.
Built-in Wiki.
The milestones system works fairly well.

Why Trac sucks, IMHO of course:

git-svn does work on Windows!

Submitted by Damien on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 2:53pm

Huge thanks to the msysgit team for their hard work, because after some testing I've discovered that their git/git-svn port does work, whereas trying to get it working under Cygwin is a quite broken right now. Got git it!

Note: You need to get the Git-1.5.5-preview20080413.exe release if you want to try git-svn, the Git-1.5.6.1-preview20080701.exe release has a broken git-svn.

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Pressflow-6 and Pantheon-Mercury on GitHub (updated x2)

Downgrading svn repositories from 1.5 to 1.4

One solution for "unexpected T_SR" errors in PHP

Why Trac sucks

git-svn does work on Windows!

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Subversion

Pressflow-6 and Pantheon-Mercury on GitHub (updated x2)

Downgrading svn repositories from 1.5 to 1.4

One solution for "unexpected T_SR" errors in PHP

Why Trac sucks

git-svn *does* work on Windows!

git-svn does work on Windows!