Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

To work: poked mail, worked on LXF column with helpful lady - got the correct spelling of aether.
Worked on porting ureadahead & libnih to SUSE - somehow I find myself really resenting bzr, not because it is in any sense bad, but because it is a (typically) hard-to use distributed revision control system, and it is just differently twisted to eg. git - which I also loathe using, but see some concrete purpose in learning. I keep hoping someday I will manage to find the git command to diff a branch back to the branch-point; since git rebase can do it it must be possible. It also sucks beyond belief to have five RCS' on the go at once: svn, git, bzr, hg, and (by far the most retarded) 'osc' - sometimes I try a couple before I hit the right command to update - perhaps some monster wrapper to detect & select the right sub-set of a few commands that I care about would help(?). Perhaps the most annoying thing about these newfangled systems, is that the simple flow of:
```
foo checkout baa
cd baa
while (1) {
	< ... hack some stuff ... >
	foo update
}
foo diff > /tmp/patch-for-some-guy.diff
```
so beloved of cvs, svn users no longer really works; instead DRCS people, for reasons best known to themselves, seem to love to force you to branch and commit before merging; thus demanding that you read the manual, understand the cryptic 'treeish', get acquainted with HEAD^1 and other such things; when all you wanted to do was just re-base your scratch copy vs. the latest code. To this idea git says:
```
error: Entry 'Makefile' not uptodate. Cannot merge.
```
And bzr's man-page seems to want a commit to complete the update.
Sync. call with Alex; got ureadahead working, with updated kernel patch and played with tweaking it variously, seems to improve some things, and yet need some love: probably it works best with upstart - my fault for not using that.
Out to collect babes, from the school play; J's supervision group over in the evening - so worked until late. Chat with Miguel.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2009-12-07: Monday.