Ibrahim Ahmed ayyybe

How to add more to Git Bash on Windows

Git for Windows comes bundled with the "Git Bash" terminal which is incredibly handy for unix-like commands on a windows machine. It is missing a few standard linux utilities, but it is easy to add ones that have a windows binary available.

The basic idea is that C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ is your / directory according to Git Bash (note: depending on how you installed it, the directory might be different. from the start menu, right click on the Git Bash icon and open file location. It might be something like C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Programs\Git, the mingw64 in this directory is your root. Find it by using pwd -W). If you go to that directory, you will find the typical linux root folder structure (bin, etc, lib and so on).

If you are missing a utility, such as wget, track down a binary for windows and copy the files to the corresponding directories. Sometimes the windows binary have funny prefixes, so

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

	#!/bin/sh
	if [ "$#" -eq 1 ]; then stdinmsg=$(cat); fi
	exec <"$0" \|\| exit; read v; read v; read v; exec /usr/bin/osascript - "$@" "$stdinmsg"; exit

	-- another way of waiting until an app is running
	on waitUntilRunning(appname, delaytime)
	repeat until my appIsRunning(appname)
	tell application "Messages" to close window 1
	delay delaytime
	end repeat

	From the WebKit documentation at:
	http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/WebKit/WebKit-7533.16/chromium/src/mac/WebInputEventFactory.mm

	// Of Mice and Men
	// ---------------
	//
	// There are three types of scroll data available on a scroll wheel CGEvent.
	// Apple's documentation ([1]) is rather vague in their differences, and not
	// terribly helpful in deciding which to use. This is what's really going on.
	//

	So you've cloned somebody's repo from github, but now you want to fork it and contribute back. Never fear!

	Technically, when you fork "origin" should be your fork and "upstream" should be the project you forked; however, if you're willing to break this convention then it's easy.

	* Off the top of my head *

	1. Fork their repo on Github
	2. In your local, add a new remote to your fork; then fetch it, and push your changes up to it

	git remote add my-fork [email protected]

	/*
	Say you have a largeish C++ class. You want to use it from ObjC. ObjC++ is painful;
	C++ is painful. .mm files are bad. How about if we could just treat that C++
	object as an ObjC object whenever it exits C++ land?

	Apple already solved this problem once with toll free bridging. The tricky part is
	vtables -- with a vtable, isa isn't at offset 0 of the memory layout of the object.
	The code below is a work in progress to work around this.

	*/

	*
	!*.m
	!Makefile