Learn random facts while pulling code changes

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by medwezys • 14 years ago

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dfc2• 14 years ago

"you don't type git pull every time, do you?"

No, I fetch and then merge.

"Put those to your .bashrc or .zshrc"

git aliases should be added to gitconfig to avoid muddying the global namespace for commands.

ambrice• 14 years ago

It's not a git alias. It would be better to do this as a post-merge hook though.

dfc2• 14 years ago

I know it is not a gitalias, it is a shell wide alias for a command that involves git. That is why I said the better solution would be to use gitalias than your shell's alias functionality. With gitalias you can provide the same functionality without creating the possibility for command conflicts.

medwezys2• 14 years ago

I don't like merge commits when you can avoid them.

waffle_ss• 14 years ago

Indeed... git pull --rebase is your friend (or better yet, set rebase as default strategy for pulls)

yhager• 14 years ago

I don't know how to run a shell alias using a git alias, so I ended up creating a file ~/bin/fact, and defining the git alias as:

  [alias]
    ff = "!fact && git fetch"

wiredsoul• 14 years ago

If you're going to do this at least put the 'fact' call before the git command, otherwise it seems to defeat the purpose of reading the fact while the git fetch / merge completes.

jenius• 14 years ago

Pretty fun idea, does anyone know of a good way to make this work on osx?

medwezys2• 14 years ago

It does work on OSX, you just need to install elinks (brew install elinks ?)

msbarnett• 14 years ago

It looks like elinks is available in Homebrew[1], so the only added step is brew install elinks

[1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

5teev• 14 years ago

Also MacPorts, so

port install elinks

RickFromSA• 14 years ago

You need elinks, that's all. So: brew install elinks

Cyranix• 14 years ago

Related question: How would one write this without the elinks dependency, using curl or wget?

GuiA• 14 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4335963

devgutt2• 14 years ago

   curl -s randomfunfacts.com | sed -n 's/.*<i>\(.*\)<\/i>.*/\1/p'

dacort• 14 years ago

Not guaranteed to not break: curl -s http://randomfunfacts.com | grep "<td border" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed 's/ //'

JReptak2• 14 years ago

Only using curl:

WARNING: Replace ASTERISK with the asterisk character, keeps italicizing -.-

curl -s randomfunfacts.com | grep '<i>' | sed 's/.ASTERISK<i>\(.ASTERISK\)<\/i>.*/\1/'

JReptak2• 14 years ago

Or better yet add color:

WARNING: REPLACE ASTERISK with the ATERISK character, keeps italicizing

alias facts="echo -ne '\033[36m'; curl -s randomfunfacts.com | grep '<i>' | sed 's/.ASTERISK<i>\(.ASTERISK\)<\/i>.*/\1/'; echo -ne '\033[0m'; tput sgr0"

And run it in BG so we don't have to wait for call to website before we pull

alias gpl="( facts ); git pull"

paulbaumgart• 14 years ago

  Prepending two spaces to a line will prevent ***automatic formatting***.

cpeterso• 14 years ago

  curl -s randomfunfacts.com | grep '<i>' | sed 's/.*<i>\(.*\)<\/i>.*/\1/'

dracoli• 14 years ago

we should merge :] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjkhdklfbghoadcaml...

neeee• 14 years ago

The sed doesn't work on my box, here's one that does:

  elinks -dump randomfunfacts.com | sed -n '/^[┌│└]/p'

Avalaxy• 14 years ago

I dont want to spoil the party but:

1) You really don't need Git to do this. Can you bind almost anything you like to make a call to this randomfact website. 2) The site doesn't only state facts. It says that elephants are the only animals that can't jump. This is simply not true, because snails for instance are animals as well, and it is proven that they can't jump.

austinlyons• 14 years ago

I keep pulling even though my repo is up to date. These facts are addicting.

Learn random facts while pulling code changes

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