Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 11: Chasing the commit by taking a train

Raymond ChenSeptember 23, 2019Sep 23, 201909/23/19

Let the train carry you.

How to split out pieces of a file while preserving git line history: The easy way with misleading commits

Raymond ChenSeptember 18, 2019Sep 18, 201909/18/19

Anticipating the octopus.

How to split out pieces of a file while preserving git line history: The hard way with commit-tree

Raymond ChenSeptember 17, 2019Sep 17, 201909/17/19

More commit-tree tricks.

How do I split a file into two while preserving git line history?

Raymond ChenSeptember 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19

The octopus delivers.

Not actually crossing the airtight hatchway: Applying per-user overrides

Raymond ChenAugust 1, 2019Aug 1, 201908/1/19

The user is merely attacking himself.

Why do pinned apps sometimes go to the end of the taskbar, rather than going into the “pinned apps” section of the taskbar?

Raymond ChenJuly 25, 2019Jul 25, 201907/25/19

That's not really a "pinned apps" section. It just looks like one.

Adventures in application compatibility: Calling an internal function

Raymond ChenJuly 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19

Clearly wandering into unsupported implementation details.

Windows NT services are assigned a SID based on an SHA-1 hash, but what about the risk of collision?

Raymond ChenJuly 17, 2019Jul 17, 201907/17/19

Those collisions are going to be hard to manufacture.

My initial confusion when encountering functions whose names begin with Co

Raymond ChenJuly 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19

We aren't in the math department any more.

Generating good error messages from code analysis tools is harder than it looks

Raymond ChenJuly 4, 2019Jul 4, 201907/4/19

Describing the problem accurately, with enough diagnostics to chase the problem