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Now that git has become the standard version control software, which is used by software developers. Now for system engineering and system administration purposes it used to be an approach to just login and do something and remember it or even note it somewhere. Some people tried to just use RCS or SCCS on the …
„Git for Linux System Engineering“ weiterlesen
In the old days we used svn, cvs, rcs or other systems for source code management, that allowed enabling something like svn:keywords. This resulted in certain strings in the source code being replaced by strings containing some version information. More often than we might think these were useful. The question „what version are we running?“ …
„How to replace svn:keywords?“ weiterlesen
Typically we observe that line endings of text file turn out to be „linefeed“ (LF or „\n“ or 0x0a or Ctrl-J) on Linux and Unix-like systems (including MacOSX), while they are „carriage return and linefeed“ (CR LF or „\r\n“ or 0x0d 0x0a or Ctrl-M Ctrl-J) on MS-Windows. See the little obstacles of interoperability. This can …
„LF and CR LF in git and svn“ weiterlesen
We use different file formats that are more or less tolerant to certain changes. Most well known is white space in text files. In some programming languages white space (space, newline, carriage return, form feed, tabulator, vertical tab) has no meaning, as long as any whitespace is present. Examples for this are Java, Perl, Lisp …
„Meaningless Whitespace in Textfiles“ weiterlesen