It is sometimes useful to have a repository for a project that shows only the main points in history. It is possible to start from git repository with full history and create such an abridged history in a separate branch. You can do this efficiently in git by reusing the original tree objects. This post will do a walkthrough for the Mediawiki repository.
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This is a Makefile that I’ve perfected over the years for rendering typical LaTeX articles or presentations (e.g. for scientific papers). It handles almost all LaTeX documents, except for large documents that use the \include feature (this is for another tip). It assumes your document has a bibtex bibliography.
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UTF-8 is one of the most commonly used methods to encode unicode characters into byte values. It has some interesting properties, for example, characters from the ASCII codeset retain their encoding. This is an implementation of UTF-8 decoding in OCaml.
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