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Regexper : visualize your regexps

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There is a famous quote about regular expressions, to which I don’t really agree but I have to admit there is not much love for regexps around me.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski

I came across this little tool : Regexper allowing to easily understand a regular expression by providing its state machine diagram :

Regexper example

Regexper example

I think it could be useful to put it in your bookmarks with Rejex to use it when you work with regular expressions.

GitLabHQ and a good branching model

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Migrating to Git


At work, we made the move from subversion to git as our version control tool. I used git for a few times before we migrate the whole project thanks to the git-svn bridge, and, apart from the usual headache when it comes to merging branches, I was rather convinced we would make the migration to git. To explain what branching model I was expecting to use, I dig the Internet for a good tool, hoping to migrate our so “1.0″ Trac version control and issue management to a more github like one.

Founds

There is not as much tools as I first thought, I found gitorious, which seems to be a good tool, but it looks complicated to setup and lacks (or I didn’t find it) a good graphical representation of the branches in the repository.

I came across gitlabhq, which is a starting project, but promising as it aims to mimic github in many ways. I’ve tried it and I must say I am very impressed, it is now one of the tool we use internally, it is not yet a perfect tool but it does its jobs very well. We still use our old Trac environment with git integration to hunt down our bugs and control ticket workflow with commit messages (blog post to come). We also use Trac’s wiki to write our internal documentation toward developpers.
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