SSDs are the way to go!

I bought an intel X25-M SSD last week and it does make a *big* difference! It is faster, develops less noise and heat and the battery lasts longer.

I am using it with a lenovo thinkpad t410 laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 and it’s just great!

For what it’s worth I am running a pretty recent kernel in conjunction with the Ubuntu maverick userland. Not sure how well the normal 2.6.35 kernel supports SSDs.

Anyway, SSDs are the way to go

What is the best way to reset a file in a git topic branch?

Sometimes, when reviewing topic branches, I like to reset a file (to whatever it was in the master branch) and play around with it.

I figured out how to do that (see below) but it’s a bit clunky. Please take a look and comment if you know of a better way.

Here goes the example: first a repository is initialised and a file is added to it.

$ mkdir -p gitreset

$ cd gitreset/

$ git init .
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/muharem/tmp/gitreset/.git/

$ cat > a
This is file a, rev. 1
^D

$ git add a

$ git commit -a -m "initial commit"
[master (root-commit) 3e74747] initial commit
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 a

Next a topic branch is created and the file is modified in the former.

$ git checkout -b topic-branch master 
Switched to a new branch 'topic-branch'

$ cat > a
This is file a, rev. 2
^D

$ git diff
diff --git a/a b/a
index 595c3aa..7eb0dca 100644
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1 +1 @@
-This is file a, rev. 1
+This is file a, rev. 2

$ git commit -a -m "change to file a"
[topic-branch 300108e] change to file a
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Now I would like to reset the file to whatever it was in the master branch.

$ git reset master a
Unstaged changes after reset:
M	a

$ cat a
This is file a, rev. 2

$ git diff
diff --git a/a b/a
index 595c3aa..7eb0dca 100644
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1 +1 @@
-This is file a, rev. 1
+This is file a, rev. 2

$ git diff --staged
diff --git a/a b/a
index 7eb0dca..595c3aa 100644
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -1 +1 @@
-This is file a, rev. 2
+This is file a, rev. 1

It appears the file was reset but the revision of interest is in the staging area. To get that revision into the working tree I need to do additional work.

$ git diff --staged | patch -p1
patching file a

$ cat a
This is file a, rev. 1

Is there a way to have the changes resulting from git reset in the working tree straightaway?

OpenQuake is hiring in Zürich and in Pavia

The OpenQuake project is looking to hire two Python developers (one in Zürich/Switzerland, the other in Pavia/Italy).

We are a global and public project, do our development in accordance with agile principles and all our code is open.

Please see [1] and [2] below for more details on what we do.

In case you are interested, please send me an email (muharem SPAM-SUCKS linux.com) with your date of availability, your CV as well as some (python) code samples.

[1] http://www.globalquakemodel.org
[2] http://www.openquake.org