How Git Efficiently Transmits Your Changes

So here’s a fun one. Have you ever noticed that even for huge changes to a repository, a git push only sends over a few kilobytes, maybe a few megabytes at most? If you’re familiar with the internals of git, you know that git stores an entire copy of the new file on commit. So how are these changes so small?

CVS Is Dumb

2020-07-15 9 min read Programmer stuff Rants Software Tech Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

So I was going back through my list of version control systems, and something hit me. CVS isn’t just kinda old and worn out, it’s downright backwards and dumb. Heck, CVS over the network is something that, in all seriousness, should not exist.

Minor Rant: Linux, Scripts, and SetUID

2019-09-14 3 min read Programmer stuff Programming Rants Sysadmin stuff Tech Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

You know the feeling when a system that you’ve used for years, and trusted, suddenly throws a curveball at you with a fun “Yeah you know this simple and concrete rule that’s never broken? Well in this one exception, it is, and nobody ever points it out. Have fun!”