my ~/.gitconfig file

[user]
    name = Viktor Kelemen

[color]
    diff = auto
    status = auto
    branch = auto
    interactive = auto
    ui = true
    pager = true

[color "status"]
    added = yellow
    changed = green
    untracked = cyan

[core]
    pager = less -FRSX
    whitespace=fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol

[alias]
    co = checkout
    st = status
    ci = commit
    co = checkout
    w = whatchanged
 lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative

You can find more about .gitconfig customization on Hackernews or on Stackoverflow

Get HTTP status code with curl in bash


curl --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null URL

and then wrapping it into a function

getHTTPCode () {
    echo $(curl --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null $1)
}


response=$(getHTTPCode URL)
echo $response


Failed to install db46 on Snow Leopard

I have a brand new macbook (2011/04/19) and have some trouble with installing db46 with ports

port install db46

fails badly and complains about dependencies.

The easiest fix is to install it without java (and you don't need java)

sudo port -v selfupdate
port clean db46
port install db46 +no_java


There are other articles about this problem, How to fix db46 problem macport installation
or MacPorts 1.8.2 fails to build db46 on Mac OS X 1.6.3

Joyent Smartmachine Nodejs log


tail -f /var/svc/log/site-node-service\:default.log


Reset Joyent Smartmachine Nodejs git repo


cd ~
rm -rf repo
mkdir repo
cd repo
git --bare init
cp /opt/nodejs/post-receive* hooks/
cd ~


Deleting the old repo, creating a new one and then copy the post-recieve hooks.