git, I hate it now

I am in a small size team(10), we switched from SVN to git+gerrit , after a while I really hate to use this setup.

1. not very intuitive from the SVN camp, you need more than an hour to get everything  set up.
2. need to learn new ways to do old subversion jobs, not straight forward,
3. upon frustration of pulling with conflict, reset and rebase will erase your work, and it is gone forever, you have to redo the code.
4. even after you  replace with head revision for the files, they still shows up in the unstaged changes.
5. generate and reuse header if too complicated.
6. I am sure I can spend a  day to concentrate on it , I will get everything right, but I did not spend more than one hour in SVN, and I had never have to redo the coding.
7. I sense half of the team think it is unnecessarily complicated.

Walk on a trail

an hour walk on the trail 140, 341, 342, really nice weather.

Gerrit+LDAP

setup gerrit with LDAP authentication.

Here are the key note for gerrit.conf file

[auth]

        type = LDAP

[ldap]

        server=

        accountBase= ou=people,dc=*,dc=*

        accountPattern=(&(objectClass=person)(uid=${username}))

        accountFullName= mail

        accountEmailAddress = mail

[httpd]

        listenUrl=http://*:8180/

 also tried apache2 proxy to LDAP. key note

created a new virtual host with port 8082, have to add this to the port.conf

the gerrit port is still 8180.

in gerrit.conf

canonicalWebUrl = http://192.168.1.30:8082/

[httpd]
        listenUrl = proxy-http://127.0.0.1:8180/

the LDAP way is easier to config, the proxy one is working halfway, can only login first user and creat admin. I don't have time to figure out why

 another lessons learned here for gerrit username.

User names cannot contain spaces.  Currently they are restricted to be
strings that match the following regular expression:

  ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9._-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]$

otherwise, gerrit login will give "name does not conform" error.

Apache+openldap without SSL

This is a experimental in my home network without using ssl.

sudo a2enmod ldap authnz_ldap authn_alias

the red part is appended.  

sudo emacs sites-available/default

        AuthLDAPURL ldap://localhost:389/dc=****,dc=****?uid?sub?(objectClass=*)

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        DocumentRoot /var/www/

       

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

       

       

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                Order allow,deny

                allow from all

                AuthName  "Authentication"

                AuthBasicProvider ldap-internal

                AuthType Basic

                AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on

                Require valid-user

       

that's it, access apache with LDAP.

Scribefire not working now

I have been using scribefire to publish blogs for 5 years, and recently ( since my last post), it stopped working with this site. I am too busy to figure out why and I saw other people's comments on the apps comments section complaining for the same thing.I have a home blog using apache roller, so scribefire will allow me to publish to both site. if some one figured out the cause, I would like to use scribefire again.