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Fred McCann
Personal blog · duckrowing.comprogramminghardware
Fred McCann writes Duck Rowing, a personal blog at duckrowing.com about programming and hardware. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Fred McCann's blog is linked for its write-ups on version control, including a bzr (Bazaar) tutorial and a comparison of git, hg and bzr. HN readers point to it as a follow-on to the 'Reinventing the Git Interface' post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
by Fred McCann
What Hacker News says?
If you had enough time to kill to read the original post above and you have some more time to kill, this is a really good write-up about git/hg/bzr. https://duckrowing.com/2013/12/26/bzr-init-a-bazaar-tutorial... Bazaar's model is based around branches. Make a branch, change stuff, commit, merge. Merges are like top-level things. When you read the log you get only the commits to that branch (like, say, "trunk"). If…
Comment linking /2013/12/26/bzr-init-a-bazaar-tutorial/
on “Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)”Submitted Electron isn't Cancer but it is a Symptom of a Disease as a story · 37 points
HN discussionMost people moved from something like CVS/SVN/Perforce to Git. There are also a lot of people who started using Git at their first job. And most of these developers think of it as the same thing as GitHub. As others have said on this thread, you could try Mercurial. It is pretty nice. More user friendly than Git. But it does not do branching well. The original design did not include "named" branches, it was added la…
Comment linking /2014/04/25/git-vs-mercurial-vs-bazaar-vs-etc/
on “Reinventing the Git Interface (2014)”Submitted Upgrading a 2006 iPod Video for Lossless Audio as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is a Google Custom Search Engine that I've set up. I'm focusing on sites that would be useful for new iOS developers, specifically sites with good tutorials, examples, or articles. This is my site list so far: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/ http://cocoadevcentral.com/ http://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/ http://iphonedevelopertips.com/ http://mobileorchard.com/ http://maniacdev.com/ http://mauvilasoftware…
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on “Ask HN: Need iOS development links for Google Custom Search engine”Submitted Hacking my Keyboard to do Less as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Git Eats Jenkins Commits on GitHub as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bazaar Support in Cocoapods as a story · 1 points
HN discussion