Category Archives: Mac

Getting git clone to work between MacPorts installations

If you use MacPorts to install git, then the various git programs (git, gitk, etc.) will be installed in MacPorts’ usual /opt/local/bin directory. This, however, seems to screw up the git clone operation which complains about not finding the git-upload-pack binary.
Trying the –upload-pack option to pass in a nonstandard location for the upload-pack binary on [...]

A recipe for IMAP with Gmail and Mail.app

In Firefox

Install Greasemonkey
Install Gmail Macros

In Gmail

Enable Imap
Use shortcuts and macros for yanking/labelling:

“e” archive
Shift-”3″ trash
+”L0″ respond (-”B0″)
+”L1″ action (-”B1″)
+”L2″ hold (-”B1″)

In Mail.app

Install Mail Act-on
Configure Mailbox Behaviors

DO store drafts (and “Use This Mailbox” ‘Drafts’ for drafts)
DON’T store sent
DO store junk (and “Use This Mailbox” ‘Spam’ for junk — I think)
DON’T move deleted to [...]