Monday, January 5, 2015

Updated tutorial

It took me some time, but I finally understood that it is not contra-productive to explicitly define many-to-many relationships using ManyToManyField. Updated https://www.lino-framework.org/tutorials/lets/index.html accordingly.

Trying git rebase

I am still fiddling on my first pull request to Sphinx. It is theoretically done, the test suites pass on Travis for all environments, but on 04/01/15 20:58, Georg Brandl wrote:

BTW, now with git it’s easier to remove unwanted changesets. Just to a git rebase -i, remove the offending commits, and then push with -f. Github will automatically update the pull request.

Thanks for your hint, Georg. I am still rather new to git and have never used rebase before, but want to learn. So I read the tutorial section about rebase I didn’t understand every detail, but the grand picture seems easy. So I tried:

$ git rebase -i
$ git rebase -i master

This opened my editor on a file named git-rebase-todo with the following content:

noop

# Rebase 59422e5..59422e5 onto 59422e5
#
# Commands:
#  p, pick = use commit
#  r, reword = use commit, but edit the commit message
#  e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending
#  s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit
#  f, fixup = like "squash", but discard this commit's log message
#  x, exec = run command (the rest of the line) using shell
#
# These lines can be re-ordered; they are executed from top to bottom.
#
# If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST.
#
# However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted.
#
# Note that empty commits are commented out

The process did not wait until I finish editing that file (my EDITOR and VISUAL are 'emacsclient -n'). The command line said:

Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/master.

And AFAICS nothing has changed:

$ git push
Everything up-to-date
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working directory clean
$

Hmm… okay, without help from outside it would be suboptimal to continue. If you followed until here and see a possible explanation, then don’t hesitate to drop me a mail.

Graphically represent a database structure

Reading http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf

• The next step assigns nodes to discrete ranks or levels. In a top-to-bottom drawing, ranks determine Y coordinates.

• During rank assignment, the head node of an edge is constrained to be on a higher rank than the tail node. If the edge has constraint=false, however, this requirement is not enforced.