I had a bunch of personal scripts to manage my music database. Maybe 10-sh scripts, max a few hundred lines long, nothing too big. A little while ago, I wrapped them into a big emacs org file for literate programming, and to tangle them, so I could easily edit them in one place. Backed them up to at least three servers, both locally and in another building. I also have Cronopete running, (a Linux implementation of MacOS Time Machine), so everything is safe, right? Right?!. I didn’t need the scripts for 3 months or so, but today I wanted to use them but couldn’t find them anywhere. Not on any backup server, not on the Cronopete drive. The only thing I can think of is that I must have saved that org file on the backup server and then backed up over it (and it never got pulled by Cronopete because it does of course not look at the backup server). I will have to start rewriting those scripts from scratch. FML.
I guess some lessons need to be learned through pain.
Yes, all those hurt. They sometimes still do, most of us are not machines that turn caffeine into code and we are never as clever as we think we are.
On a side note, w.r.t. keeping the dependencies up to date, have a look at renovatebot. It creates merge request for each and every dependency update, thus triggering a build to check that everything is OK.
Oh, that seems nice. I’ll bring it up at work, we have some projects that could use this.
Can it run against a simple git repository or does it only work with the apis of github, bitbucket and co?
You decide which repo you want to be managed, there’s an embarking option that creates an issue explaining how to have the tool embarking the repo and the tool itself has a filter if you want a “whitelist” approach.
The docs list GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Gitea and some Azure and AWS solutions. The runner is only available on Gitlab, though.
There’s also a “freemium” solution, but I couldn’t get it to work and the runner is working fine anyway.