Archive for October, 2008

Open MacVim tabs from command-line

Posted by michael on October 13th, 2008 under OS X
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MacVim takes vim and provides better integration with Apple’s OS X - I’ve only just started using it and I am already loving it. Provided along with the application is a wrapper-script written to handle calls from the command-line:
cd project
mvim project_file.php
MacVim supports tabs, but unfortunately calling mvim multiple times from the command-line results in multiple [...]

Does subversion support symbolic links?

Posted by michael on October 3rd, 2008 under General
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From the Subversion FAQ:
Subversion 1.1 (and later) has the ability to put a symlink under version control, via the usual svn add command.
Details: the Subversion repository has no internal concept of a symlink. It stores a “versioned symlink” as an ordinary file with an ’svn:special’ property attached. The svn client (on unix) sees the property [...]