Alexander Burchenko AABur

Conventional Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make a difference.

Tip

Have a look at git-conventional-commits , a CLI util to ensure these conventions, determine version and generate changelogs

Commit Message Formats

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After reading Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long and listening the corresponding The Changelog episode, I dwelt on the idea and believe that open source maintainers...

... should never be ashamed if they don't have time for a project.
... should be honest with themselves and open with their users so that everybody can be on the same page
... are people and they have at one time or another responsibilities or hardships that they need to attend to which reasonably take them away from a project
... may also reasonbly decide that they don't like the direction of a project or that they would like to explore other things and may leave a project permanently.

Along this line of thinking I've created a set of descriptions for different levels at which a project might be maintained. A maintainer can use these to announce to their users the current ability that they have to dedicate to a pr

Close Android File Transfer
Open Activity Monitor and kill “Android File Transfer Agent”
Go to where you installed “Android File Transfer.app” (I have it under /Applications)
Ctrl+click –> “Show package contents”
Go to Contents/Resources
Rename “Android File Transfer Agent” to e.g. “Android File Transfer Agent_DISABLED”
Then go to “/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Android File Transfer” and again rename the Agent app.

Branching

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Description, Instructions, Notes

Instance	Branch

	# **************************************
	# Get MAC address of a remote host
	def arpreq_ip(ip):
	# type: (str) -> Optional[str]
	import arpreq
	return arpreq.arpreq('192.168.1.1')

	def scapy_ip(ip):
	# type: (str) -> str
	"""Requires root permissions on POSIX platforms.

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	# A text filter for BBEdit. If it encounters a JSON error, it writes an error message
	# to stderr (appears in a new BBEdit window) and leaves the original text unaltered.
	# c.f. http://crisp.tumblr.com/post/2574967567/json-pretty-print-formatting-in-bbedit
	# c.f. http://blog.scottlowe.org/2013/11/11/making-json-output-more-readable-with-bbedit/

	import json
	import sys

	def main():