Grandma's Fridge

Inspired by Michał Górny’s post of a similar name, I’ve taken things a bit further by using hooks.

Never look at the command line with Git hooks and Magit!

So, as I write patches for various awful build systems, one of the things I try to do is slim down the patch file and make it easier to read. Changing “foobar-1.orig” to just a and “foobar-1” to just b makes a difference. Rather than manually edit the patch file, I turn to my dear friend, the regex search-and-replace. But, it gets to be a bit tiring editing essentially the same regex twice to get nearly identical results.

So, I’ve kind of taken over Request Tracker (bestpractical.com).

I’ve seen several articles on Perl’s state declaration, but not so much on how it might help performance. Let’s dig into that a a bit.