Posted in August 2008

Switch from SVN to Git with no history

Written by Ben

A while ago the team switched to git/github from subversion (svn), but we needed to get the latest copy of our code and leave behind the massive history to save space on github.
How?
I used the git svn command as follows:
git svn clone <current_svn_revision>:HEAD <url_to_svn>
Simply note down the latest svn revision number [...]

Combating comment trolls with design

Written by Ben

I saw this today on the 37 signals blog and thought it was good use of design to combat troll comments.

There must be some facility on their blog to flag up troll comments. Instead of reacting with more comments, which is what they want, design is used to cleverly to highlight and make the commenter [...]