Martin Geisler

Zurich, Switzerland

Age: 31

I'm a Python geek and Mercurial hacker. I love playing with distributed version control systems (DVCS), in particular Mercurial, where I'm a core developer.

You can follow me on Google Plus if you want to see what I'm up to.

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Community split between SO and project mailinglist/IRC channel

discussion community asked Jan 11 '12 at 11:47

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11 votes

How does GHCi pick names for type variables?

haskell type-inference ghc ghci type-variables asked Dec 15 '11 at 12:13

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9 votes

Efficient DAG comparison over a network

cc.complexity-theory dc.distributed-comp directed-acyclic-graph asked Oct 18 '11 at 9:08

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8 votes

Is a user's tag score based on the original tags of a question, or can retagging existing questions change it?

support tags tag-score asked Jan 18 '12 at 23:11

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8 votes

Can I import a patch without touching the working directory?

version-control mercurial import patch working-directory asked Dec 15 '11 at 14:39

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8 votes

Difference between “import lib.foo” and “import lib.foo as f” in Python

python module circular-dependency python-import asked Oct 11 '12 at 9:12

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8 votes

Google Plus links to Stack Exchange questions and answers

google-plus links stack-exchange asked Dec 24 '11 at 17:36

webapps.stackexchange.com

7 votes

What uses most power: GPS or WiFi?

wi-fi battery-life gps asked Apr 16 at 7:14

android.stackexchange.com

6 votes

Synchronize tag wiki's across Stack Exchange sites

feature-request tag-wiki asked Dec 18 '11 at 10:20

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6 votes

Plain text parts in subscription emails now lack links

bug status-completed email tag-filters asked Mar 23 '12 at 8:30

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What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git?

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Mercurial — revert back to old version and continue from there

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Mercurial: Named Branches vs Multiple Repositories

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Merging: Hg/Git vs. SVN

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Show progress of Mercurial push/pull

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Consequences of using graft in Mercurial

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What is Mercurial bisect good for?

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Return a PHP page as an image

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Forking from GitHub to Bitbucket

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Are there any good graphical Git and Hg/Mercurial clients on Mac OS X?

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Mercurial (hg) commit only certain files

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Is there a way to remove the history for a single file in Mercurial?

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Check if variable has a number php

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Mercurial: Remove changeset from remote branch

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How to automatically remove all .orig files in Mercurial working tree?

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Mercurial error: abort no username supplied

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How do I clone a sub-folder of a repository in Mercurial?

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How do I “switch” with Mercurial

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Check in single file with Mercurial?

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Python classes special methods

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Can I mark a branch as 'not going to push'?

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C++ array[index] vs index[array]

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“bzr uncommit” equivalent in Mercurial?

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How to search through all commits in the repository?

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Good Mercurial repository viewer for Mac

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How to automatically merge .hgtags in Mercurial?

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hg push with credentials for HTTP server

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How can I always know about all tags in Mercurial?

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Retrieve old version of a file without changing working copy parent

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Abort a merge in mercurial

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