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Spotlighting the London Underground

April 21st, 2008
  1. Download the Tube Map pdf from TFL
  2. Save it somewhere you won’t delete it, eg ~/Documents/
  3. Spotlight search for a tube map, eg Command-space, Tufnell Park

Spotlight will open the map with the Tufnell Park highlighted! :) So now you know where it is and what line to get.

OS X is awesome.

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Using TortoiseSVN from the Command Line

March 26th, 2008

I like to use CygWin, I find, at least for development, it preferable to use the command line to explorer for opening and manipulating files. However TortoiseSVN is better than command line SVN in a few important areas. So I made a script so that “svn ci” open Tortoise’s check-in dialog. Ace! :)

  1. Save this script to /usr/local/bin/svn (ie. c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\svn)
  2. Ammend the svn variable
  3. chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/svn

As long as /usr/local/bin is first in the path, you can use TortoiseSVN for the good bits, and the command line svn client for the rest.


#!/bin/sh
# Use TortoiseSVN from the cli
# Public Domain, Max Howell 2008

path=$2
test -z $path && path=.
test -e $path && path=`cygpath -wa $path`

svn='/cygdrive/c/progra~1/TortoiseSVN/bin/TortoiseProc.exe'

function svn
{
"$svn" /notempfile /command:"$1" /path:"$path" &
}

case $1 in
up | update) svn update;;
ci | commit) svn commit;;
log) svn log;;
props) svn properties;;
browse) svn repobrowser;;
*) /usr/bin/svn $@;;
esac

You can also use your ssh key from cygwin through TortoiseSVN. Some details here.

But the gist is use this, C:/cygwin/bin/run C:/cygwin/bin/ssh, in the ssh program box in TortoiseSVN network settings.

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