Monthly Archives: March 2014

Assuming you have the svn and an empty GIT repository, first you need to check out the git repo: git svn clone https://old.svn.server.com/svnpath you’ll have the folder named ‘svnpath’ checked out and converted to git format. The you need to … Continue reading →

Faced a problem while downloading JDK from the shell? Yes, Oracle checks for cookies and here’s a small trick to install latest JDK right from oracle’s website: wget –no-check-certificate –no-cookies –header “Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com” -O jdk-linux-x64.rpm “http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.rpm” rpm -Uvh jdk-linux-x64.rpm