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• Git branches and PS1

  With the release of Mercurial 1.1 yesterday and me more and more getting into it again I complained on IRC that as much as I love git's named branches, they make it kind of easy to just do something to the wrong branch. If you have a branch per folder it's kind of more obvious in what branch you're operating all the time, in my opinion.

  But there is a simple solution for this: Martin today posted a quick guide on how to get the current branch name into your shell's $PS1.

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  2008/12/04 at 16:20:45

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• Django 1.0 now with its own branch

  Right after 1.0 got released, some people started to wonder how to easily stay up to date on bugfixes for this major release. Back then I think it was James Bennett who told me to stay tuned for something on this front. Today, Jacob Kaplan-Moss announced that Django 1.0 finally has its own maintenance branch in the repository.

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  2008/09/29 at 20:16:16

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