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You can configure Fossil’s gdiff command to launch your favorite graphical diff tool. Below are examples configuring some popular diff tools. All the examples below include the --global option. If you want to configure this setting only for the current repository, omit that option. Beyond Compare: $ fossil settings --global gdiff 'bcomp' Git: $ fossil settings --global gdiff 'code --diff --wait' vimdiff: $ fossil settings --global gdiff 'vimdiff' Visual Studio Code:...

After changing your password on a remote Fossil repository, you will receive login failures when trying to sync your local repository. $ fossil sync Sync with https://blachniet@example.com/test Round-trips: 1 Artifacts sent: 0 received: 0 Error: login failed Round-trips: 1 Artifacts sent: 0 received: 0 Sync done, sent: 420 received: 285 ip: 192.168.0.10 $ fossil commit Autosync: https://blachniet@example.com/test Round-trips: 1 Artifacts sent: 0 received: 0 Error: login failed Round-trips: 1 Artifacts sent: 0 received: 0 Pull done, sent: 446 received: 287 ip: 192....

A leaf in Homebrew is a formula that is not a dependency of another installed formula. You can list the currently installed leaves using the brew leaves command. See thoughtbot’s brew leaves post for more information on this command. Removing a leaf in Homebrew can suddenly introduce many more leaves; the dependencies of the formula you removed. In this post I will show you how to remove a leaf as well as all its dependencies not used by any other formulae....

I’ve decided to shut down the Rager service at the end of October. I haven’t had time to improve or maintain the service lately. Some recent outages have gone unresolved for weeks! I suggest that those who were using this service consider Libraries.io as an alternative. Libraries.io has: Support for many project repositories and package managers Many features A team supporting the project Corporate sponsorship It’s open source!

Google’s Cloud Platform documentation is top of the line. Even with the documentation though, it took me some time to figure out how to use the Cloud Vision API from a Go application running on a Compute Engine instance. All the right information is there, but it’s scattered. Below I’ve compiled this information into a few steps. Authenticating with the Cloud Vision API involves more setup than the Cloud Datastore, Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage....