Posted in 2016
Using git-stash without losing staged changes
- 2016-03-07
When I learned about git-stash, my productivity with git from the command line
went way up. But it wasn’t until recently that I figured out how to properly handle the situation where I had already
staged changes but needed to stash everything to do something without .
How to check out an old version of Chromium OS
- 2016-02-26
You gotta love the combination of open source projects and git. Getting up and running with a project like Chromium OS is pretty straightforward with the guide available on the Chromium Wiki. But what if, for some reason, you’re interested in a version other than the most recent? How do you dig through the combinations of repositories to get it? I recently had to figure this out for a project I’m working on, so I thought I’d pass it along.
Getting “n-dimensional” to look right in LaTeX
- 2016-01-18
LaTeX has some interesting rules for dashes and hyphenation that are hard to get right in certain scenarios. For example, if you use the term “n-dimensional” and it happens to fall near the end of a line, you’ll end up with something like this: