mhs / tidbits

A collection of random yet helpful scripts by and for the folks at Mutually Human Software

Tidbits

A collection of random yet helpful scripts by and for the folks at Mutually Human Software. http://www.mutuallyhuman.com

Installation

Enter the following in terminal:

cd ~
git clone git://github.com/mhs/tidbits.git .tidbits
~/.tidbits/bin/tidbits_update_gitconfig

Then, add the following to ~/.bash_profile

# Include tidbits
source ~/.tidbits/mhsrc

tidbits's Issues

encapsulate tidbits' .gitconfig in a separate file

Rather than inserting the configuration for Git inside the user's global configuration (~/.gitconfig), it seems preferable to include it by simply adding something like

[include]
    path = ~/.tidbits/gitconfig

(For reference, see: git/git@9b25a0b)

The main problem with overloading the user's ~/.gitconfig is that we can easily wind up with instances where there are multiple values for one configuration setting, which can prevent the git config command from functioning. For instance, suppose both the Tidbits section and the rest of a config file both have:

[example "test"]
  blah = yada

and the user runs a script that executes git config --global example.test.blah yackety, they will get an error:

warning: example.test.blah has multiple values
error: cannot overwrite multiple values with a single value
       Use a regexp, --add or --replace-all to change example.test.blah.

Inclusion of external config files should work in Git 1.7.10.2 and up. If we wanted to support earlier versions (and I don't think we care about them) we could put the Tidbits configurations in /etc/gitconfig (or just maintain the current behavior for ancient versions of Git).

git-unmerged should support -r for "remote"

Currently you have to specify "--remote", it should support "-r" as a shorthand.

Warnings with certain versions bash, sometimes

I've seen these occasionally with with bash:

Last login: Fri Aug  5 00:16:07 2011 from 10.201.146.14
/path/to/user/.tidbits/lib/aliasdir.rb:5: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version

Specifically with:

 GNU bash, version 3.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Although I've seen other hosts with the same version that do not show the warning.