This is a tale of two approaches to regular expression matching. One of them is in widespread use in the standard interpreters for many languages, including Perl. The other is used only in a few places, notably most implementations of awk and grep.

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Combinator began as a set of shell scripts and has evolved into a set of Python tools which enforce a simple workflow for using SVN and Python together to work on projects that use branches to gather changes together while eliminating common errors.

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Much has been written about mobile devices. Plenty has been written about developing websites for the so-called “standards era” of the web. However, little has been written about the two colliding. This resource aims to fill that void.

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svnmerge.py is a tool for automatic branch management. It allows branch maintainers to merge changes from and to their branch very easily, and automatically records which changes were already merged.

(tags: subversion svn merge tools python scm development programming best-practices)