is this thing on?

time machine with samba share

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

create a sparsebundle image file

sudo hdiutil create -size 320g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -nospotlight -volname “Backup of ” -fs “Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+” -verbose ~/Desktop/_.sparsebundle

copy the sparsebundle image file to the backup drive

cp  ~/Desktop/_.sparsebundle /Volumes/

backup!

migrate from svn to git

pull the svn history into a new git repository:

• mkdir project_name.svn
• cd project_name.svn
• git svn init path/to/svn/repo —no-metadata
• echo “svn_username = Real Name <email.address@example.com>” > users.txt
• git config svn.authorsfile users.txt
• git svn fetch

• mkdir project_name.git 
• cd project_name.git
• git init
• git remote add origin path/to/git/repo
• git pull project_name.svn
• git push origin master