27 March 2007

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It has been a very hectic few days.  A lot of changes from staging that had to be merged in.
Didn't have much to blog - got lots of little notes here and there but nothing really substantial to talk about.

Oh that's right, I picked up a copy of Command & Conquer 3.  I wonder how long it'll take to install a 6 GB game.  Probably as long as installing Visual Studio .NET 2005.

22 March 2007

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Commit early, Commit often.

We're nearly the end of one build phase. And a lot of people are committing their changes into version control. For each person that commits before you, you have to merge their changes into yours first before you can commit yours. Hence, the wisdom in the header.

Yesterday was one excruciating day of merging more than 40 files into my working branch. The auto-merge messed up a few things too that I wasn't aware of, further compounding the problem of "it builds, it just doesn't want to run".

I was glad and in good mood by the end of the day though. Possibly because I nailed the problem at the end.

21 March 2007

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Strange happenings.
SVN died pretty bad for me last night. The issue? I wasn't using the latest version 1.4.3 (I was still on 1.4.2). Honestly, I was not expecting software as mission critical as version control to just "die" like that.
I mean, people joke a lot about Microsoft and their "bugs", I guess Open Source just has its own share of bugs as well as anybody.