Easily View Logs, Changesets, and Authors in Git, Mercurial, and Subversion from Terminal.app in OS X

I like doing most of my SCM/VCS work in Terminal.app, but when I want to look at logs and the diffs in their changesets for commits, I like a UI.

GitX is great at this. If you've installed Git or have it already, install GitX, start it, and in the menu do "GitX -> Enable Terminal Usage". Restart Terminal.app, browse to a Git repository, and type the following to see the log:

gitx

Subversion was a little trickier. Assuming you've installed Subversion or have it already, install SvnX. Start the application once and it will put the svnx shell script into your ~/bin/svnx. Assuming you don't have ~/bin/ on path, you can add the following to your ~/bash_profile:

alias svnx='~/bin/svnx wc . && ~/bin/svnx log .'

After restarting Terminal.app, browse to a checked-out subversion repository and just type the following to see a log:

svnx

Mercurial is a little tricky, but mostly because the tool I use is called Murky, not hgx, as you might think. Hgx is easier to remember, that is what I call my alias. Assuming you've installed subversion or have it already, install Murky. Then, add the following to your ~/bash_profile:

alias hgx='open -a Murky .'

After restarting Terminal.app, browse to a checked-out Mercurial repository and type the following to see its log:

hgx

(Thanks to Jens Alfke for the Mercurial command-line solution.)

Type of Plane and Seats for Airline by Flight #

Check out SeatGuru. While many airlines have seat maps online that you can view after you've chosen the flight based on date, time, and price, I've often wished that I could have chosen the type of plane also. With SeatGuru, you can. And, you can even find by route. (Thanks to this post on the Atlassian Developer Blog for the reference.)