meld – cvs diff with ease
There are couple of ways to make life easier with CVS diff. But here is one that is really good.
First if you haven’t, install meld:
sudo yum install meld
meld is basically a diff viewer and pretty good at it 😉
Continue readingIgnore CVS and svn directories in bash autocompletion.
CVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂
export FIGNORE=CVS:~:.o:.svn bind 'set match-hidden-files off'
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kernel source code — the easier way to get it with git.
The simplest way to get the kernel code is :
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
If you want to get the other branches then head over to <a href="http://git.kernel.org">”Kernel Git Page”
This will get the Linux kernel tree. As of today , 12 days ago, the tree was tagged to 2.6.31.
Now thats cool, but do you want it to be simpler and do not want to know the git command get to what you want to do that is learn linux kernel then here\’s what you can do :
sudo yum install teamgit
Here is the interface that you will get to add new repo:
Get list of git repositories from command line.
Earlier I had posted a small blog on teamgit. The problem still is that you have to manually go to the git.kernel.org page and get the list of the repo’s that you can download. How about a command line to get the same. Here’s one:
wget -O – http://git.kernel.org |grep ”class=.list.” |grep -v title|awk -F’>’ '{print $3}’|sed ’s/<\/a//’
Output will be like this:<div id="_mcePaste" style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">linux/kernel/git/ghaskins/linux-2.6-hacks.git