How to use svn behind proxy

If your Linux host is behind a corporate proxy, and you are trying to access a svn repository located outside the corporate network, you will need to configure proxy settings in svn, so that svn traffic can traverse the proxy properly.Read more »

How to checkout a specific version of git repository

A public git repository is often shared by multiple developers who constantly contribute new code and fixes, and users who check out code to try it. Along with code itself, a git repository contains full commit history of the code, as well as revision tracking information. As such, you can easily checkout a particular version of specific files from git repository if you want. In order to checkout a specific version of git repository, see the following examples.Read more »

How to count lines of source code

For various reasons, you may want to know how many lines of source code a given software program is built in. For example, you want to estimate the effort devoted to developing a program, or to gauge the size and complexity of a program before trying it. There is some controversy as to using source lines of code (SLOC) as a metric to determine the size of a software program, since existing programming languages differ greatly in terms of clarify and brevity.Read more »

How to install Eclipse on Linux

Eclipse is a software development environment with extensible plug-ins, toolkits, and run-time libraries, supporting development in Java as well as other languages such as C/C++ and PHP. In order to install Eclipse SDK on Linux, you can do the following.Read more »

How to install Maven on CentOS

Apache Maven is a project management software, managing building, reporting and documentation of a Java  development project. In order to install and configure Apache Maven on CentOS, follow these steps.Read more »

How to use git behind proxy on Ubuntu

The following fix has been confirmed to work on Ubuntu server 11.04 and 11.10.Read more »

How to migrate SVN repository

Subversion (SVN) is a version control system, maintaining versions for files and directories. SVN uses FSFS (Fast Secure File System) as the backend storage to store revision histories. Read more »