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winstonma / Onyx Boox Image Extractor.md
Last active May 28, 2024 05:20
Onyx Boox Image Extractor

Onyx Boox Image extractor

This extractor runs on debian linux and allows you to read the image content without owning an Onyx Boox device

Running the script

Please use a Debian based linux device to run the script. Please follow the steps below:

  • Open the the table of supported device on the browser, and find the MODEL column of your desired device
  • Open download.sh, and replace DEVICE_NAME with your name of your desired device
  • Run download.sh
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tswaters / git-subdirectory-tracking.md
Last active October 30, 2024 12:55
Adding subdirectory of a remote repo to a subdirectory in local repo

This is way more complicated than it should be. The following conditions need to be met :

  1. need to be able to track and merge in upstream changes
  2. don't want remote commit messages in master
  3. only interested in sub-directory of another repo
  4. needs to go in a subdirectory in my repo.

In this particular case, I'm interested in bringing in the 'default' template of jsdoc as a sub-directory in my project so I could potentially make changes to the markup it genereates while also being able to update from upstream if there are changes. Ideally their template should be a separate repo added to jsdoc via a submodule -- this way I could fork it and things would be much easier.... but, it is what it is.

After much struggling with git, subtree and git-subtree, I ended up finding this http://archive.h2ik.co/2011/03/having-fun-with-git-subtree/ -- it basically sets up separate branches from tracking remote, the particular sub-directory, and uses git subtree contrib module to pull it all togther. Following are