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@PurpleBooth
PurpleBooth / README-Template.md
Last active April 8, 2025 06:48
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

@nicwolff
nicwolff / XML_breaker.py
Last active April 2, 2025 20:05
Python script to break large XML files
import os
import sys
from xml.sax import parse
from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator
class CycleFile(object):
def __init__(self, filename):
self.basename, self.ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
self.index = 0
@ahoward
ahoward / caching-https-creds.markdown
Created June 6, 2012 21:42
Fix Username/Password prompting for github repos cloned via https scheme

github recently switched to an https scheme as the default for cloning repos. as a side effect you may suddenly be prompted for a 'Username' and 'Password' when you push where, previously, you were able to do so without typing in credentials. the solution is to cause git to cache https credentials which is easy, since git uses curl under the covers

in your home directory create a file called '.netrc', for example

/Users/ahoward/.netrc

in it put these contents