Monthly Archives: May 2014

Crucible: unrecognised diff format. expected diff hunk descriptor but found

At qualys we use crucible. Great tool though it can sometimes be a PITA… Like today for example.
I had a pretty big patch made from several svn revs:

svn diff -r 23284:23747 -x -b > ~/tmp/code.patch

When I tried to upload that to crucible, I received the msg: "Error adding patch: Unrecognised diff format. Expected diff hunk descriptor but found:"

It's a known issue from atlassian that has been alive for more than 2 yrs: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CRUC-6114.

Thanks for fixing your bugs so fast btw...

Anyways the pb comes from the fact that the diff command gathers metadata as well as code changes.

Turns out there is a great tool called filterdiff, part of the patchutils package that cleans that up well.

brew install patchutils
filterdiff --clean code.patch > clean.patch

Crucible should stop whining after that

Magicsuggest 2 release

I was so caught up with different projects, work, family, the move to the us… That i hadn’t touched that plugin for almost 9 months… I finally decided to make it a priority to fix what needed to be fixed and improve what had to be improved.

So here comes 2.0.0:

– Flexible responsive design
– Full support of bootstrap 3
– An entire new home with a showcase, tutorials, an amazing documentation full of examples, etc.
– A bunch of fixes and improvements.

Drop me a line if you use it in your bootstrap forms!

Cheers

MagicSuggest 2.0.0:
Homepage
Demo
Documentation
Tutorial
Licence

Copying json objects into the clipboard

At qualys we often work with complex json objects that we have to debug. I just found out that chrome dev tools include a copy command that allows to copy any variable into the clipboard. This can be useful to retrieve full json objects:

copy(JSON.stringify(obj))

The object can then be displaying in a nice formatted way using a plugin within sublime or using an online formatter.