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# Permanently move a subversion repos to git

# If you have tags and branch but never used them you can do this:
git svn clone -s --no-metadata --authors-file ~/git_resources/authors https://example.com/svn/repos
git remote add origin git@github.com:username/repo.git
git push -u origin master
# Don't forget to add a README.markdown file.
#
# optionally use git clone on the repository again, this will remove all the svn stuff from 
# .git/config file.  If you push to github all you need to do is do the initial push and then

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#!/bin/bash
#
# The "getting started" when creating a new project doesn't cover how to setup git so
# you can do operations like `git push` without having to specify the branch each time.
# This fixes that.
#
git config branch.master.remote origin
git config branch.master.merge 'refs/heads/master'

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teddy@teddy:~ $ brew doctor
Your system is raring to brew.

teddy@teddy:~ $ brew update
Already up-to-date.

teddy@teddy:~ $ brew info gtk+
gtk+ 2.24.6
http://www.gtk.org/
Depends on: pkg-config, glib, jpeg, libtiff, gdk-pixbuf, pango, jasper, atk

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Now that bitbucket supports git, it's easy to use their service as a free, private, offsite code backup. Just create an empty repo for your project on bitbucket, add it as a remote to your development repo:

username@host:~/project$ git remote add bitbucket git@bitbucket.org:username/project.git

Edit: I had to change in the config file the url value to set the complete https url: https://username@bitbucket.org/username/project.git

and use this post-commit hook to silently and automatically push your changes up after each commit.

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At one point at work I needed to run a script several times. As a quick and dirty hack I made this python file that just gives me a list. I then ran it several times changing the month. It's quick, it's messy, but it worked.

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from redis import Redis
import simplejson

class Resque(object):
    """Dirt simple Resque client in Python. Can be used to create jobs."""
    redis_server = 'localhost:6379'

    def __init__(self):
        host, port = self.redis_server.split(':')
        self.redis = Redis(host=host, port=int(port))

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I moved what I was trying to show here to https://github.com/vrillusions/puppet-resolv and leaving this around for people that still have the link to it.

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Introduction

This is how to create a gpg key without any user interaction or password. This can be used in cases where the primary goal is to secure the data in transit but the gpg key can/must be stored locally without a password. An example of this is the hiera-gpg plugin which doesn't support passwords.

The below genkey-batch file will use the default which currently are RSA/RSA and 2048 bit length. See the reference link to set this to something else.

References

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<?php
function hash_password($password) {
    if (@is_readable('/dev/urandom')) {
        $f=fopen('/dev/urandom', 'rb');
        $salt=fread($f, 4);
        fclose($f);
    } else {
        die('Could not query /dev/urandom');
    }
    return '{SSHA}' . base64_encode(sha1( $password.$salt, TRUE ). $salt);

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git clone example.com:/url/to/project.git
cd project
# these next few commands show how to rename branch "mybranch" to master
git checkout mybranch
git branch -d master
git checkout -b master
git branch -d mybranch
# remove orgin to make sure we don't accidentally do anything there
git remote rm origin
# none of the tags apply to mybranch