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Archive for March, 2004

Subversion problems solved at last

By marcus ⋅ March 4, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Subversion is generally running stable, but I noticed that every once in a while the repository would "corrupt". The source of the problem, actually, was that even though the db directory's group sticky bit was set (which sets the file's group to that of the directory it is in), some of the log files ended […]

Now using Subversion

By marcus ⋅ March 4, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Quite honestly I haven't been all that impressed by Microsoft SourceSafe (even with SourceOffSite), or CVS. Subversion could easily be described as "CVS done right". It's very similar in many ways, but, for instance, Revision numbers are per-commit, not per-file as they are in CVS. I've been eyeing Subversion since earlier this year but finally […]

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Did You Know?

From '96 to '99 I spent a lot of time on IRC (DALnet) under the name SysRequest. I wrote a little remover utility to clean up the DMsetup.exe worm, which turned into a bit of a contest with its creator who tried to make his code more polymorphic.