<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div>---- On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 10:59:40 -0700 <b>tim Rowledge<tim@rowledge.org></b> wrote ----</div><div>>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 <br> <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svnversion.re.html" target="_blank">>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svnversion.re.html</a> <br> >You may now return to your previously scheduled nightmares.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>We could call it the PI/PS->PI'/PS' resonator index.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mind you, they are not all the same sounds.</div><div><br></div><div>Smalltalk->c <low dull flops></div><div>c->Smalltalk <hi pitched "squitches"></div><div>* -> svn <very grotesque, scares the pets></div><div>*->git <can be fatal> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am currently in Smalltalk code with an elderly cat on the desk, so I am ignoring the svn version problem for now.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></body></html>