So I finally did it, I took the plunge and upgraded my Mac Book Pro from Snow Leopard to Lion. Overall it has worked out ok. I did a clean install on a new hard drive with more space since I eventually want to install Windows 7 on another partition. Having Snow Leopard and all my files on my old hard drive proved invaluable since I had forgotten to dump all my MySQL databases. So all I had to do was boot up my old hard drive via a usb enclosure, log into my old account and dump the dbs into sql files to import on my new system. This is all to say that the migration went fairly well until I reached my last step, set up Time Machine to back up to my Ubuntu desktop.
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Today I accidentally added a git tag with a dash ( - ) for the name. A mere typo ended up creating quite the headache. I quickly found that I could delete the tag locally with no problems using:
$ git tag -d -
However when I pushed my update to the server I noticed that it didn’t update the remote sources. A git pull would recreate the tag on my local repo. This frustration led to a quick google search which resulted in this nice and simple howto. I thought I would share the answer here on tumblr in case that page gets lost one day to the 404 monster. Here is the answer assuming that the tag name is ‘12345’
$ git tag -d 12345
$ git push origin :refs/tags/12345
This is officially my first post as a blogger! Yes, I know, as a web developer I should be able to say that I’ve been blogging since that fateful day that Peter Merholz coined the term. I sincerely hope that my procrastination so far is due to the #1 virtue of a programmer according to Larry Wall. However, I’m sure that is not the case since that means I would’ve written a program that would assume my identity and write a blog for me. Oh well, I guess I have a ways to go yet. Thats actually what I hope this blog becomes. A web log of my journey through the tech world. That being said, I’m sure other ramblings and misguided anonymities will find their way on here since tumblr has made it dead easy to do so.
