Greg Bayer - Latest Comments

Re: How to Buy a Basic SSL Certificate

Greg Bayer — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:53:20 -0000

To add your new SSL certificate to an existing load balancer (ELB) on AWS, you will need to:
- Add the certificate to Amazon's system
- Download the ELB command line interface (cli) and issue a command like this one:

elb-create-lb-listeners <your elb name> --listener "protocol=HTTPS,lb-port=443,instance-port=80,instance-protocol=HTTP, cert-id=arn:aws:iam::<your aws account id>:server-certificate/<your certificate id>/

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

123456 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:07:31 -0000

Don't understand how this could be the case. I cloned the repo to local disk.. and to my understanding, "git remote rm origin" severs the link between my local repo and the remote one.. so I don't see where networks/proxies would enter into it.

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Greg Bayer — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:52:33 -0000

I think that means git can't access one of your files. Based on a few posts I see on stackoverflow.com, this could be caused by a bad network connection or proxy configuration.

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

123456 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:30:40 -0000

I get an error message when I run the get filter-branch command:
$ git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter mt -- --all
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git/libexec/git-core/git-filter-branch: line 289: /libexe
c/git-core/git: Bad file number
Could not get the commits

In typical git fashion, the error message is incomprehensible to me. Any idea what's going wrong?

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Greg Bayer — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:48:15 -0000

Thats an interesting point. This wasn't a problem in my case, so I haven't looked into it. Maybe another reader can suggest a solution?

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Navitf — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:08:29 -0000

Hi, But when files are moved into a temporary directory, the command: "git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter" extract history that is relevant only to the temporary directory and thus real history logs are not preserved. Any idea how to overcome this?

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Greg Bayer — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:15:29 -0000

Thanks for the suggestion. You can actually use this approach to move an arbitrary set of files by first moving them into a temporary directory. Because of this, the current title seems to be appropriate and more general.

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Adam Monsen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:30:01 -0000

Sorry, I meant: change "Files" to "one directory" or "a directory".

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Adam Monsen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:40:19 -0000

Great post, thank you. One suggestion: change the title as follows: s/file/one directory/.

Re: Livecount

Greg Bayer — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:56:22 -0000

Yes. For us, it's definitely still feasible to use it with the new pricing. Try it out and let me know if you find that it ends up costing more than another approach.

Re: Livecount

just me — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:05:43 -0000

is it still feasible to use it now after GAE released its new pricing schema ?

Re: How To Use a Commuter Check Card to Purchase a Caltrain Monthly Pass

Greg Bayer — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:05:37 -0000

Here's a common question and my answer.

"Do you know why my clipper card told me I have negative funds when I tagged on? Do I have to tag when I have a monthly pass?"

Yes. It's really dumb!

Here are (some of) the rules:
- You must alway have at leave $1.25 balance on your card, or your monthly pass wont work.
- If you buy a monthly pass at somewhere like Walgreens, it loads onto your card right away and you never have to tag on-off.
- If you get a pass via the online system, you must tag on-off one time at the beginning of each month to "load" the pass onto your card.
- If you have a negative balance now, you will have to add money to bring the balance to $1.25 before you can continue to use your pass.

Typical response: "None of this makes any sense!!"

Re: How To Use a Commuter Check Card to Purchase a Caltrain Monthly Pass

Greg Bayer — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:02:29 -0000

Agreed! The autoload program via Clipper works great and is what I'm using now! The main problem I've seen with this system is you have to tag on & off the first time you ride each month. It's easy to forget this seemingly pointless step.

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Mguyre — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:02:20 -0000

Need to add a git fetch between steps 4 and 5 for the new repository to retrieve the tags and history

Re: How To Use a Commuter Check Card to Purchase a Caltrain Monthly Pass

Stuart Baker — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:52:18 -0000

Corrections and Updates:

Monthly Caltrain passes are no longer able to be purchased at Walgreens. Everything is done through Clipper now.

You should make the distinction between a Commuter Check non-personalized Card and a re-loadable personalized Card. The personalized card works seamlessly with the Clipper program through Autoload; it can also be sued at any of the 400 retail outlets for Clipper. Commuter Check also now offers direct loading of Caltrain passes onto the Clipper Card.

Re: Working Hard With No Regrets

Etienne Neveu — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:57:45 -0000

Great post about prioritization. Though I'm not sure about the sleep-deprivation part. Sleeping too little is bad for focus and for health ( http://www.usmansheikh.com/ran... ).

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Greg Bayer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:03:48 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. In this case I believe the results should be similar either way.

1) "mkdir -p" is only required if the new directory is more than one level deep.

2) There shouldn't be much difference between "mv *" and "git mv *" in this case.

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

JosephChiu — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:44:50 -0000

hi, based on what I read on http://stackoverflow.com/quest..., I wonder if your line 5 should be "mkdir -p <directory >" and line 6 should be "git mv * <directory 1>" ?

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Seth Brown — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:45:27 -0000

Thank you, for explaining this!. Your post will be a big help. I have wanted to do this for some time, but kept putting it off!

Re: Pulse Wins Apple Design Award and Raises $9 Million Series A

leyanlo — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:13:43 -0000

Good job!

Re: Working Hard With No Regrets

Paul Keeble — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:21:52 -0000

Would you code drunk? What about high on drugs? Sleep deprevation of that amount reduces your cognitive ability so much that you would fail many complex task tests in the same way as if you were.

Its not cool to work like that, it produces poor quality work that you'll be maintaining and fixing for years to come. Consistent reliable release of features is what you need to aim for, not half killing yourself to get stuff done a little earlier in any way possible. Start taking pride in the quality of the work you do!

Re: Working Hard With No Regrets

Tom — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:56:48 -0000

"Working less" as a regret is heavily founded upon the traditional concept of working a job you don't like 50 weeks a year and take two weeks of vacation to do what you really want, plus compensate for that job you don't like by buying more stuff. Seth Godin covered that pretty well in "Poke the Box." It's a great culture for an industrial age - work a boring job, buy more stuff so companies can sell more stuff.It's also getting outdated as people realize that buying more things or going on better vacations doesn't make up for spending 60% of your waking hours doing something you don't really like.

Re: Working Hard With No Regrets

old man — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:08:50 -0000

just remember that what you think is revolutionary today
will be thrown aside tomorrow

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Greg Bayer — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:55:20 -0000

Great catch! The commit is not required with the pull approach. Will update accordingly.

Re: Moving Files from one Git Repository to Another, Preserving History

Von — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:12:21 -0000

Just tried this on a couple quickly whipped up repos and it worked well. Only comment was there was nothing to commit after the pull, so I'm not sure you need the last two steps.