Retrieving a file version (git commit & tag) based on its hash

Mon 27 June 2016

Today, I did some tests on a server where an old version of our project was deployed. At some point, I needed to identify which version of the code was there, and I wrote a pretty shell function to figure this out. Yeah, I know what your thinking : there must …

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• lang:en
• shell
• hash
• git
• sha
• version
• tag-tag
• prog

Python 3 non consistent set & dict iteration gotcha

Mon 08 December 2014

Consider the following Python expression: print("".join(set("ABCDE"))) What do you think it produces ? Not necessarily "ABCDE". Right, but you would expect the result to be consistent, isn't it ? $ for i in {1..3}; do python2.7 -c 'print("".join(set("ABCDE")))'; done ACBED ACBED ACBED Great ! ... But with …

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• lang:en
• python
• dict
• security
• perl
• hash
• iteration
• gotcha
• backward-compatibility
• set
• ministat
• csvstat
• prog