I previously wrote about how to get a useful diff for binary Excel files that reside in a Git repository.

This post adds some details that are big enough to deserve a separate post. They are:

• User-level configuration of Excel diffing.
• How to get an Excel diff from git show …

In this post, I’m going to demonstrate how to get a useful diff for binary Excel files that reside in a Git repository. I assume that you’re familiar with Git, and in that case you know that having binary files in a repository is generally not a good …

Git is my version control system of choice nowadays. Its feature set fits extremely well with my usual software development workflow, and there are so many aspects of git that I could write about, but this particular blog post is about commit behavior.

There is nothing religious about this post …

Keeping git repositories in sync is usually and easily done using git pull and git push. However, for those rare times when you don’t have network connectivity (or limited connectivity) and still need to transfer the contents of a repository to somewhere else, there’s git bundle.

The bundle …

I’m not a big fan of Subversion but I’m madly in love with Git! So much that when I have to use Subversion, I create a Git repository within my locally checked out Subversion branch. This is really easy to do, and only takes four simple steps:

1. Navigate …

Recently I wrote my first Node.js program! Yeah, yeah, I know! Late to the game and all that! But I thought it was time to catch up with the rest of the world. Better late than never, right? (Also, the program needed to parse JSON data, so JavaScript felt …

I’m very fond of git for many reasons, one being its changeset-based commit model. Today I ran a demo of some code for a customer, and I used git as a demo driver - much like a TV chef brings out stuff he or she has prepared earlier. There are …