Code, Strings, and Keys

Category: Software

  • git command to find when a line mentioning “string” was removed from a file on main

    Additions and updates to a line are easy, because you can just git blame on the file in question and find who and/or what is responsible for the latest change. However, it’s hard to git blame a line that was removed, right? git log -S<string> Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of…

  • How I want my software to be updated

    I’m stuck in Windows XP land for the time being, so some of this rant is taken care of elsewhere. I hope. 1. Don’t tell me about the update unless it is absolutely necessary for me to stop what I’m doing for the update to proceed. 2. Automatically update, unless a core component of the…

  • MediaWiki on xampp

    Okay, I installed  JSPWiki on xampp on an SD card to have an isolated sandbox for JSPWiki.  The install was space intensive due to the number of small files added with Tomcat and JSPWiki.  The install was also not entirely portable, in that the only systems that could run the setup from the SD card…