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Re: Why Cyclists Should Pay For Rego

Nathan de Vries — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:04:13 -0000

I completely agree that bicycle registration is a good idea for insurance purposes, however it must be said that each state-level bicycle association offers membership with these insurance benefits provided. In my case, I have a family Bicycle NSW membership for myself and my partner which covers us for injury to ourselves, as well as indemnity from injury to pedestrians etc.

Any reason why this wasn't mentioned in the article? Most of my friends don't even think about insurance, but when I tell them about Bicycle NSW / VIC / QLD etc. they usually sign up straight away.

The reason I'd want registration instead of state-level bicycle association membership is to put me on a more (perceived) even ground with drivers. I pay for car registration, motorbike registration & Bicycle NSW membership, but car drivers don't know that.

Re: git ready » finding who committed what

Nathan de Vries — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:38:08 -0000

The tip I submitted a few months back ago on the use of "tig" (not sure what happened to it, it hasn't been posted here), included an example of how to use tig's blame functionality. One particular advantage of tig is that when you're sitting on a line of code in blame view, you can hit enter and it will jump to the full patch for the commit that introduced the change to that line. Handy for those "why the hell did they do that?" moments.

Re: git ready » easily fetching upstream changes

Nathan de Vries — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:14:44 -0000

You might also want to look at the Github gem, since it allows you to track and pull in fork commits easily.

Re: git ready » sharing your changes

Nathan de Vries — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:05:09 -0000

A tool that's useful for conferences/hackathons is Gitjour, which was written by Chad Fowler, Evan Phoenix, and Rich Kilmer. It allows you to broadcast and discover Git repositories via DNSSD/Bonjour, by simply running "gitjour serve <project dir="">" (to broadcast) or "gitjour list" (to discover).

The most active development is happening in Lachlan Hardy's Github fork, found here: http://github.com/lachlanha...

Re: git ready » installing git

Nathan de Vries — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:57:11 -0000

You should probably mention that for OS X, you'll almost definitely want to install the bash completion variant ("sudo port install git-core +bash_completion"), and if you're making the slow-but-sure switch from Subversion you might want to install the Subversion variant too ("sudo port install git-core +bash_completion +svn").

Re: git ready » checkout tracked remote branch

Nathan de Vries — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:47 -0000

I always set the "branch.autosetupmerge" configuration flag to true, so that branch tracking is done automatically when I do a "git checkout -b foo".