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Thursday, 25th February 2010

Hg Init. Joel Spolsky’s guide to Mercurial. If you’re still using a non-distributed version control system like Subversion, this is a great introduction to the new world order.

# 10:31 am / distributedvcs, joel-spolsky, mercurial, subversion

Using Bash’s History Effectively. The HISTIGNORE environment variable is particularly useful, allowing you to suppress certain commands by specifying a pattern. This article has a tip for causing a command to be omitted from the history if you prefix it with a space.

# 12:21 pm / bash, commandline