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Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:32 PM

Using hg bisect to hunt down bugs

The “bisect” command in Mercurial (git has it too) is a great way to quickly find which version of your code introduced a bug.  This post will show you how to use the bisect command along with handling a small “gotcha” I encountered while using it...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:18 PM

.hgignore file for IntelliJ IDEA Development

Every time I start a new project in Visual Studio, I almost always put it under Mercurial source control – even a small demo project.  If the project becomes serious enough, I’ll create a private repository in Bitbucket and maintain it there. ...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:15 AM

Moving a local Mercurial Repository to Bitbucket

I recently got a new laptop.  Part of the migration process was to move a few local Mercurial repositories into Bitbucket .  Since these are just “playing around” repositories, they’ll be private, but the beauty of Bitbucket is that you get...
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Monday, January 31, 2011 4:50 PM

Welcome 2011

About this time last year, I wrote a blog post about how January of 2010 was almost over and I hadn’t done a single blog post.  Ugh…  History repeats itself. 2010 in Review If I look back at 2010, it was a great year in terms of technology and...
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Monday, May 24, 2010 9:56 AM

Updates to Nino’s .hgignore files for Visual Studio

As I move more of my repositories from SVN to Mercurial , I’m constantly referring to Nino’s sample .hgignore file he provided for Visual Studio developers.  I always start with his file but add a few more lines and thought I’d share them here. ...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 6:07 PM

Backing Up with FTP

I finally set aside some time to upgrade to Windows 7.  Most everyone else in the office has already upgraded.  I was holding out so I could finish up a few client projects and get the Ann Arbor GiveCamp website up and running.  Now it...
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