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Compacting a VirtualBox VM Centos disk

Posted on October 20, 2015 by dave

At work I used Centos 6.4 to convert a large Subversion repo to Git. This required a VM with a 100Gb disk, more than my old iMac could deal with, to the point where I could not update to newer … Continue reading →

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Building Git 1.8 on Centos 6

Posted on July 12, 2013 by dave

We use Centos as a VM for development. Intellij IDEA was complaining about the 1.7.1 version from the Centos distro, requiring 1.7.1.1. Picky. So I grabbed the git source: $ git clone https://github.com/git/git $ cd git $ make … http-push.c:920: … Continue reading →

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Building KDiff3 on Centos 6

Posted on June 7, 2013 by dave

My goto diff tool on Windows is the open-source WinMerge. On Linux, Ubuntu has an installable KDiff3, a member of the Qt-based KDE family of tools. At work we are using Centos 6 as our dev VM, and no installable … Continue reading →

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