Witheringtree » Windows http://www.witheringtree.com If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it fall… yeah, it still makes a sound. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:07:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mercurial .hgignore file http://www.witheringtree.com/2011/04/mercurial-hgignore-file/ http://www.witheringtree.com/2011/04/mercurial-hgignore-file/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:09:07 +0000 David Freerksen http://www.witheringtree.com/?p=913 Continue reading →]]> If you are using Mercurial, there is this handy file in your repository root called .hgignore. This is a file that keeps track of all of the files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. For example, log files or cache files should not be committed to repositories.

I do a lot of work with PHP, Codeigniter, and Eclipse on the Mac. This is what my .igignore file looks like:

application/logs/(?!index\.html|\.htaccess)
application/cache/(?!index\.html|\.htaccess)
syntax: glob
.DS_Store
*.[Bb][Aa][Kk]
[Bb][Aa][Kk]
*.[Cc]ache
.buildpath
.project
.settings

The first two lines keep my logs and cache directories empty on commit except for the index.html and .htaccess files that are in there. .DS_Store is used by Finder. It’s similar to the desktop.ini file on Windows. The last three lines are to keep my Eclipse project files out of the repo. Everything else is files and directories that I tend to call things.

If you are on Windows, instead of .DS_Store you will probably need [Tt]humbs.db as well. If you are working with Microsoft Visual Studio and .Net, you are going to need a few more things. The ones I can think of off the top of my head are:

syntax: glob
*.suo
*.webinfo
[Bb]in
*/[Bb]in
[Rr]elease
*/[Rr]elease
[Dd]ebug
*/[Dd]ebug

All of this will of course change depending on the IDE, preferences, and framework you are using. This will help you get started.

]]> http://www.witheringtree.com/2011/04/mercurial-hgignore-file/feed/ 0 Hard Drive Crash http://www.witheringtree.com/2009/05/hard-drive-crash/ http://www.witheringtree.com/2009/05/hard-drive-crash/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 06:14:57 +0000 David Freerksen http://www.witheringtree.com/?p=126 Continue reading →]]> My second hard drive crashed today. While I was working, out of nowhere, my computer locks up. Not a big deal right? Windows does that every now and again. So I had to do a hard shutdown. When I go to boot it back up I get “Operating System not found.” Not good news. So I spend all day trying to get my data off my primary drive. As it turns out, it was the second hard drive that crash and not the primary. So I bought a new second hard drive and put that in. But now the problem remains of getting my data off of the drive that crashed. I got a hard drive enclosure so I can get the files off of it but it’s not being recognized still. So I read online about people putting their hard drives in the freezer. For some reason it works. So it’s in the freezer right now and I’ll keeping my fingers crossed.

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