Day: February 26, 2008

  • Meeting Mlle A.

    panama kaffee

    Last Saturday I met the elusive and mysterious Mlle A. at a coffee place* in Hannover.

    Once or twice during the conversation there was a cross-reference to something I or Mlle. A. had written or linked to. And for me that’s one of the powerful side-effects of blogging: there’s a regular reader’s familiarity built over time.

    * We were assured by an architect that the shop design featured in various architecture magazines a few years ago.

  • Marketer’s Cheat Sheet for cvs and svn?

    At work we use cvs and subversion for version control, light years better than Visual SourceSafe.
    I’m trying to extend my active command line knowledge of cvs and svn… Remember I’m a low and humble marketer / content developer / writer.

    Regular commands I use:

    cvs update
    cvs commit -m "message" filename

    cvs tag -F "tagname" filename
    cvs update -dPr tagname to checkout a tagged version
    cvs update -dPA to return to head

    I’m using cvs (command) --help to list the various options available.

    I’m a visual person, and can remember best when I write things down and see them. How do you keep on top of cvs and svn commands? Can you recommend a cheat sheet?