I gave a presentation earlier today on Git at the Groovy and Grails GR8Conf US 2012 conference. The GR8Conf was named for the 8 groovy-based technologies starting with the letter “G” that were popular when the conference first started 2 … Continued
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Quick Shell Function to Bootstrap a Gradle Groovy Project
Gradle is a great build tool. It’s easy to download and install. If you’re on a mac and have homebrew, it’s as easy as: brew install gradle It’s very easy to use with a little experience, but I find having … Continued
Finding and Purging Big Files From Git History
On a recent grails project, we’re using a git repo that was originally converted from a SVN repo with a ton of large binary objects in it (lots of jar files that really should come from an ivy/maven repo). The … Continued
How to use kdiff3 as a 3-way merge tool with mercurial, git, and Tower.app
There are a few very nice looking, mac-like diff tools for OSX (Kaleidoscope and Changes come to mind), but none for doing “real” merges. By this, I mean real, 3-way merges with all of the information you need in front … Continued