Update February 2014: Give up the analytics, and just host your code on GitHub.

All of my public subversion repositories and CVS repositories are available online through a great Python application called ViewVC, which provides a web-based interface to CVS and SVN repositories, as well as history browsing, graphical diffs …

I’ve been in the process of manually merging two directories in a subversion repo. The second started out as a “development” copy of the first (without branching, unfortunately). Since there’s quite a few files, I decided that a graphical diff program is a must. I usually use kdiff3 …

While I know this isn’t best practice, since we use LDAP-based auth for our Linux boxes (including a sudoers file based on LDAP group membership), we usually do work on some boxes as root (sudo su -). This includes our puppetmaster, where configs are kept in subversion and edited …

Recently I was doing some work on a few PHP scripts, and came by a rather annoying error while trying to commit to subversion:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Working copy '/srv/www/htdocs/newcall/stats/generated' is missing or not locked

The problem was a directory, “generated”. This …