April 2009
2 posts
Git Tip of the Day: git cherry-tree
The problem
Recently I came across a situation in which I needed to make some fairly major changes to our codebase, and those changes needed to apply to two different branches - both a version branch that’s currently in QA, and the master branch. The changes involved reverting a few commits as well as making new changes that were too big to comfortably fit into one commit. One option would...
ShellElf runs shell commands from a Starling queue →
ShellElf is a small daemon that reads shell commands out of a Starling queue and runs them. Great if you need to do non-trivial processing tasks in the background. It’s lightweight but has a few neat features:
Post back to a specified HTTP service on success/failure for each command batch
Exit gracefully on TERM/INT - either finish the current batch, or reenqueue it, before exiting.
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