I finally got around to trying out TaskPaper (one of the apps I got from MacHeist a while ago), and it’s a brilliant and simple todo app.
You enter something like this:
Inbox: - Put camera in car - Put pizza stone in car Groceries: - Milk - Eggs - Pizza toppings Yard work: - Rake leaves - Put away hose @done - Clean up garden @done
And you get a GUI treatment that looks like this:
Simple ssh access to a git repo can be sufficient for a small dev team–but what if you’re using a non-standard ssh port?
The solution–do as Linus says. Use ~/.ssh/config.
My config now looks like this:
Host my.servername.org Port 1234
Remember that ~/.ssh needs to be 700 (read/write/execute for only the owner), and the files inside are all 600:
$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh $ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*
Every post I found in the googles referenced pserver (CVS’s clear-text socket-server protocol) when importing a CVS repository. Until I found this. Huzzah.
So I wanted to import a local CVS repository — something sitting in /home/cvs, and setting CVSROOT didn’t work. The secret is
This is the magick incantation (again, assuming that your CVSROOT lives in /home/cvs, and your cvs module to import is called “photostructure“):
mkdir ~/photostructure.git ; cd ~/photostructure.git git-cvsimport -v -d :local:/home/cvs photostructure
The Good: MacPorts makes git, the new source version control system hotness, available to Mac users.
The Bad: MacPorts sometimes has attitude, and poops out trying to compile or install packages.
The Ugly: MacPorts doesn’t tell you how to fix it.
So here was what I saw:
mrm@whack:~$ port search git cogito devel/cogito 0.18.2 Git core and cogito tools to provide a fully-distributed SCM git-core devel/git-core 1.6.0.4 A fast version control system qgit devel/qgit 2.2 A graphical interface to git repositories stgit devel/stgit 0.14.3 Push/pop utility on top of GIT cgit www/cgit 0.8 A fast web interface for the git source code management system
Great. I’ll install git-core. What additional goodies are there?
mrm@whack:~$ port info git-core git-core 1.6.0.4, devel/git-core (Variants: universal, doc, gitweb, svn, bash_completion) http://git.or.cz/ Git is a fast, scalable, distributed open source version control system focusing on speed and efficiency. Library Dependencies: curl, zlib, openssl, expat, libiconv Runtime Dependencies: rsync, perl5.8, p5-error Platforms: darwin Maintainers: bryan@larsen.st maccheck@gmail.com openmaintainer@macports.org
OK, so I want svn and doc and bash_completion extras:
mrm@whack:~$ sudo port install git-core +svn +doc +bash_completion +gitweb ... Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed Error: The following dependencies failed to build: p5-svn-simple subversion-perlbindings subversion p5-term-readkey rsync popt Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
So we’re now at the bad and ugly. When ports cops attitude, run these two commands:
sudo port selfupdate sudo port upgrade outdated
and wait. If there are any failures, look at the package that failed, and restart the installation of that package. Once that’s completed, re-do the original port install git ... command.
Tonight’s been one of those daunting “where have I been OMG OMG” nights on the tubes.
OpenOffice 3.0 is now out for the Mac. Finder opens files that end in “.doc” with TextEdit by default, and “Open with…” doesn’t seem to stick. What to do?
You’ll probably want to do this with .ppt, .xls, and .csv, too.
It was an odd choice to put the system-default web browser in a Safari preference pane and make other file types second-class citizens. Why not be consistent and make a System Preference pane for default applications?