[Vm-dev] sqPluginsSCCSVersion.h (was: [commit][2953] In????????sqFileOpen() ensure that Mac file characteristics are set only????????when a new file is created)

[David T. Lewis]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 11:33:39AM -0700, gettimothy wrote:
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> ---- On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 10:59:40 -0700 tim Rowledge<tim at rowledge.org> wrote ----
> >Possibly related - I was talk ing with IanP a while back about the technique for extracting the latest revision number from SVN; his code is/was using some messing with unix/Changleog to work it out. Whilst trying to do something else I spotted the svnversion command which >appears to do something not entirely unrelated  
>  >http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svnversion.re.html 
>  >You may now return to your previously scheduled nightmares.
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> We need a word for the spasmodic sounds a programmer's brain makes when forced to switch from one programming idiom/problem space to another programming idiom/problem space.
> We could call it the  PI/PS->PI'/PS'  resonator index.
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> Mind you, they are not all the same sounds.
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> Smalltalk->c    <low dull flops>
> c->Smalltalk    <hi pitched "squitches">
> * -> svn           <very grotesque, scares the pets>
> *->git              <can be fatal> 
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> I am currently in Smalltalk code with an elderly cat on the desk, so I am ignoring the svn version problem for now.
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Don't worry, your cat will be fine. It's us elderly humans that need to worry.

Mainly we rely on Tim R to maintain a curmudgeonly point of view, and that
helps keep the rest of us on an even keel.

;-) 

Dave