Monthly Archives: June 2011

Git for Windows tip: Use P4Merge as mergetool

Posted on June 19, 2011 by

I recently found P4Merge (thank you Twitter and Git Immersion) and instantly dropped WinMerge as my standard diff/merge tool. I really like the way it visualises the differences and the 3-way merge is really nicely done. P4Merge is the merge … Continue reading →

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Git for Windows tip: setting an editor

Posted on June 12, 2011 by

The first time I tried to do git commit on msysgit with no commit message (no –m switch), it opened up Vim so that I could write my commit message. Luckily for me I’d read enough Vim jokes on Twitter … Continue reading →

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Posting source code on WordPress.com with Windows Live Writer

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

The first time I tried to post some code to WordPress.com it took about an hour longer than I thought it would. The first step was learning of the existence of the WordPress sourcecode tag. It took some googling to … Continue reading →

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Git for Windows tip: Setting shell aliases with msysgit

Posted on June 10, 2011 by

As msysgit uses a bash shell, you can set really handy aliases for the different git commands. For example gs instead of git status and ga instead of git add are the ones I use the most. Check out the … Continue reading →

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Migrations with Rake, Albacore and FluentMigrator

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

For my previous projects I have mostly used FluentMigrator in combination with Nant for my migrations but now that there is a new FluentMigratorTask for Albacore (created by Mark Boltuc) I thought I would give Rake a try. For an … Continue reading →

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