I used to use subversion and svnmerge a lot, and there’s just one thing I miss about it. Now svnmerge is a tool to bolt on merge tracking to svn, and gits merge tracking is vastly better in many ways. But the one thing that svnmerge allowed me to do that was cool and doesn’t have a real equivalent in git is to block commits

I wanted to trigger multiple jenkins servers from a github hook.

I found this pull request which led me to look at the API

This took me a little while to figure out how to get the right parameters

I used password instead of API key and account ID instead of tenant ID which seemed to work<

https://gist.github.com/seanburlington/5554803

To have a jenkins job which acts on a remote server via ssh - and has a parameter to choose which server(s) to use.

I’m working on a project where I find I want to semi-regularly adjust a config file for local testing, but want to be sure I don’t commit that file by mistake.

Seems the best approach is

git update-index --skip-worktree $filename

This tells git to skip this file when I push, if the remote file changes it will warn me

I needed to setup a VPN client connection on a headless system where the VPN is slow and so I want to route the minimal amount of traffic through it. I need DNS to use the VPN but only for one domain.

This is my setup using pptp and dnsmasq (tested on centOS)

This has been annoying to work out.

The puppet apache module will by default create the document root for a virtualhost if it is not already defined. But since I wanted the documentroot to be managed by a custom RPM I don’t have a reference to the actual directory in puppet.

This worked for me today - saving it here so I can find it again

http://off-topic.biz/en/eclipse-hangs-at-startup-showing-only-the-splash-screen/

One of those things that happens from time to time on a dual boot system…

Windows breaks grub, usually if I’ve reinstalled windows, this can lead to a unbootable system.

Boot from a Ubuntu (or other distro) live disk or USB stick.