Just announced is release of Git version 1.7.2.

Scanning through the ReleaseNotes the following look interesting:

• git -c var=val will override config
• git show :/pattern now uses regex
• git no longer squelches if it doesn’t find .git (useful when using in PS1)
• git checkout --orphan name makes a new root branch (no parent)
• git cherry-pick can now be given a list of refs
• git log --decorate learned to colour more things

Just a quick note so I don’t forget now to enable console logging on systems running grub2 (like Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid).

• edit /etc/default/grub
  • set GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to "console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0"
• run update-grub
• reboot

( more info can be found here )

I am working on a large kernel module which had just come out of a large (and fruitful) internal API refactoring exercise. I now want to go through and cull the unused functions.

It turns out, all that is needed is the readelf utility (part of binutils package).

If you’re trying to do post-mortem analysis on a crashed river, or trying to find kernel-level bottlenecks with oprofile, you need the decompressed kernel w/ debug symbols. This comes in a form of a vmlinux file. Some distributions ship debuginfo packages, namely RHEL. On Ubuntu this seems lacking.

I got a SIM card from WIND on Friday, [the opening day]{nexus-on-wind-in-ottawa}, and put it into my Nexus One. All of a sudden everyone I know wants me to drop by their house to test the service there. Guys, it’s only $15 for a month of testing… :D

So far, in my neighbourhood (Central Park), and the surrounding area (drove down Merivale, Baseline, Carling, and Kirkwood), I get 3-4 bars (out of 4). I am well covered here, it seems.

I visited the WIND Mobile store at Westgate Mall this morning and signed up for WIND service. (I was the first geek there… yeay!) I am using my Nexus One and getting 3..4 bars for voice (out of 4), and decent data throughput.

I heard that WIND stores were actually open in Ottawa, but they are not authorized to sell anything yet.

One such store is 5 minutes from my house, at the Westgate mall, so I dropped by on my lunch break.

I had been unpleasantly informed by mdadm that sdc has been failing. Yey, another one – I thought. Not wanting to disrupt most of my day, I decided to try hot swapping the disk.

While preparing for my [Git]{tag/git} Workshop for Flourish Conf, I thought about serving files over http directly out of a git repo.

Here is a short shell script that I came up with: git-serv.cgi.

It takes request URLs like http://domain/examples/dir/file and looks up the objects in a bare git repository in /home/git/examples.git. It looks only on the master branch, and nothing is ever checked out. If it finds a tree object, it prints the file listing at that point in the tree. If the object is a blog, it dumps the contents. Otherwise some error is reported.

Here is [yet another]{zsh-git-prompt} update to the series. I’ve updated my git prompt again, now using the zsh 4.3.7 built in vcs_info module. This time the motivation came from Zsh Prompt Magic article. Here is what it looks like now:

Everything is now self contained in one file: S60_prompt. Grab it and source it into your zsh config.

The features are:

• name of current branch,
• git repo state (rebase, am, bisect, merge, etc),
• markers indicating staged/unstaged changes,
  • little 1 after branch name indicates dirty working tree,
  • little 2 after branch name indicates staged changes,
• highlight depth decended into the repository on the right,
• show failure of commands via prompt background change,
• show command/insert mode when using vi mode (set -o vi).