joel h. w. weinberger

git scripts

• git-clone-branches is a shell script for cloning only a specific set of branches from a repository. In reality, it is really a wrapper around a "git init" followed by "git remote add", but I find it handy whenever I want to get only a specific branch or two from a repository.
• git-empty-branch is a shell script for creating a branch in a repostory with no history. This branch effectively has the state of the first, uncommitted branch after a call to "git init". This is convenient if you want to start a branch that has independent history from your other branches. For example, after creating a bunch of coding branches, if you want to start a separate, fresh branch for documentation, but you do not want a separate repository, this might be handy.

utilities for experiments

• delay-traffic is a shell script for adding delay to network traffic on your Linux machine. This is useful in experiments where network delay matters but you want to normalize the delay across your experiments. This is most useful when you are doing local network access, otherwise general network delay will be added in addition to the artificial latency, thus defeating the normalization this provides.

javascript utilities

• jslint-rhino-wrap.js is a script for running the wonderful JavaScript code quality tool JSLint on local files on the command line. This script is built to run under the solid Mozilla Rhino platform, so make sure to install that first before trying to use this script. The script also requires a local copy of JSLint. You can find the latest and greatest here. You run the script script by uttering the following at the command line: rhino jslint_rhino_wrap.js jslint.js [options]... [files]... You may find it useful to write a script to specify a permanent path to your jslint.js file. Further options are specified in the comments at the top of th script.