Just getting the git repository to setup, there were a few hiccups with SSH and path that Masa sorted out. (he added git binaries path to /etc/paths). Spent the remainder of time working out how to organise this repos for adding need I decided to make a neat little script to generate the template for reports automatically. The date command is nifty in that you can obtain the next Thursday :) hmm code in a Gsites post: #!/bin/bash # # Automatically generate latex report template for the # next Thursday. # # 2011-09-21 # John Stavrakakis TEMPLATEFILE=../../shared/writing/report_template.tex BIBFILE=../../shared/writing/johnbib.bib # date of next thursday (includes today) nextthurs=`date -v-thu "+%Y-%m-%d"` # use date of creation #reportdate=`date "+%d %B %Y"` # use date of report due reportdate=`date -v-thu "+%d %B %Y"` ### EDITED ### # check the date is not earlier! # seconds since 1970 datenow=`date "+%s"` datenextthurs=`date -v-thu "+%s"` if [ $datenow -gt $datenextthurs ] then echo local generated date is earlier than today! # add one week newdate=`echo "$datenow" + 7*24*3600 | bc`; # update the dates used for files nextthurs=`date -j -f "%s" $newdate "+%Y-%m-%d"` reportdate=`date -j -f "%s" $newdate "+%d %B %Y"` fi echo the date today is : `date -j -f "%s" $datenow "+%d %B %Y"` echo report date is for: $reportdate echo file name : $nextthurs read -n1 -p "Is this acceptable...master? (y/n) " echo [[ $REPLY = [yY] ]] && echo Right away! || { echo "Aborted!"; exit 1; } # folder for this report FNAME=vislab_"$nextthurs" mkdir "$FNAME" cd "$FNAME" # replace the DATEHERE in template file with report date sed -e s/DATEHERE/"$reportdate"/g "$TEMPLATEFILE" > "$FNAME".tex # link master bib file ln -s "$BIBFILE" . mkdir figures Using git is quite easy if you know subversion. This guide proved useful in minimising the transition: git was kind enough to indicate the author and email being used. and how to change it. I followed up with this command: $ git config --global user.email me@somedomain.com $ git commit --amend --reset-author oh and looking at different monitors, I found that the Dell 24" U2412M specifications remains a little inferior from the U2410, reviews of practical use suggest otherwise. |
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