I wrote a small tool that assists in creating mirrors of your public and private Bitbucket Git repositories and wikis. It also synchronizes already existing mirrors. Initial mirror setup requires that you manually enter your username/password. Subsequent synchronization of mirrors is done using Deployment Keys.

You can download a tar.gz, a Debian/Ubuntu package or clone it from the Bitbucket page.

Features

• Clone / mirror / backup public and private repositories and wikis.
• No need to store your username and password to update clones.
• Exclude repositories.
• No need to run an SSH agent. Uses passwordless private Deployment Keys. (thus without write access to your repositories)

Usage

Here's how it works in short. Generate a passwordless SSH key:

$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key: /home/fboender/.ssh/bbcloner_rsa<ENTER>
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):<ENTER>
Enter same passphrase again: <ENTER>

You should add the generated public key to your repositories as a Deployment Key. The first time you use bbcloner, or whenever you've added new public or private repositories, you have to specify your username/password. BBcloner will retrieve a list of your repositories and create mirrors for any new repositories not yet mirrored:

$ bbcloner -n -u fboender /home/fboender/gitclones/
Password: 
Cloning new repositories
Cloning project_a
Cloning project_a wiki
Cloning project_b

Now you can update the mirrors without using a username/password:

$ bbcloner /home/fboender/gitclones/
Updating existing mirrors
Updating /home/fboender/gitclones/project_a.git
Updating /home/fboender/gitclones/project_a-wiki.git
Updating /home/fboender/gitclones/project_b.git

You can run the above from a cronjob. Specify the -s argument to prevent bbcloner from showing normal output.

The mirrors are full remote git repositories, which means you can clone them:

$ git clone /home/fboender/gitclones/project_a.git/
Cloning into project_a...
done.

Don't push changes to it, or the mirror won't be able to sync. Instead, point the remote origin to your Bitbucket repository:

$ git remote rm origin
$ git remote add origin git@bitbucket.org:fboender/project_a.git
$ git push
remote: bb/acl: fboender is allowed. accepted payload.

Get it

Here are ways of getting bbcloner:

• Debian / Ubuntu package. Install with: sudo dpkg -i bbcloner-X.YY.deb
• Source package. Install with: tar -vxzf bbcloner-X.YY.tar.gz && cd bbcloner-X.YY && sudo ./install.sh

More information

Fore more information, please see the Bitbucket repository.

• Updated Lvl 50 Helio vulnerability.
• Removed lvl 250 Helio vulnerability.

Thanks to madstork91 for reporting Faction vulnerability changes. Get the HTML version, or other versions (PDF, ePub, etc).

• Lily Pad
• Nether Brick, Nether Brick Fence, Nether Brick Stairs, Nether Wart [block]
• Enchantment Table, Brewing Stand [block], Cauldron [block], Brewing Stand, Cauldron
• End Portal, End Portal Frame, End Stone, Dragon Egg
• Blaze Rod, Blaze Powder
• Ghast Tear, Nether Wart
• Gold Nugget
• Potion, Glass Bottle, Spider Eye, Fermented Spider Eye
• Magma Cream
• Eye of Ender, Spawner Egg
• Glistering Melon
• Music Discs

Thanks to Pedro Lopes for the patch!

• Added vulnerability of the level 1000 Maar Confederacy Base (thanks to Cam Arnold for reporting it).

Get the HTML version, or other versions (PDF, ePub, etc).

• Added vulnerability of lvl 50 Helio base
• Added vulnerability of lvl 250 Helio base
• Updated Appendix II (upgrade costs)
• Fixed battle duration before automatic retreat
• Fixed some FIXMEs
• Added some info about leveling up.

You can find the new version on my Writings page

• Change player food (including god-mode)..
• Switch between Creative and Survival.
• Added Pine leaves, Birch leaves
• Added (Double) Brick Slab, (Double) Stone Brick Slab, Stone With Silverfish, Stonebrick, Mossy Stonebrick (buggy), Cracked Stonebrick (buggy), Brick Stairs, Stone Brick Stairs
• Added Huge Brown Mushroom (buggy), Huge Red Mushroom (buggy)
• Added Iron Bars, Glass Pane, Vines, Fence Gate
• Added Melon, Pumpkin Stem, Melon Stem, Melon Slice, Pumpkin Seeds, Melon Seeds, Raw Beef, Steak, Raw Chicken, Cooked Chicken, Rotten Flesh
• Added Ender Pearl

You can get the new version Here.

gCountDown is a very simple alarm countdown timer. It sits in your system tray where you can click it to set an alarm. Once the time runs out, you will be alerted.

This release adds the ability to play a sound when an alarm goes off pops up a menu on right-clicking the icon so you can quit the application and has some minor bugfixes. A Debian/Ubuntu package is now also available.

You can download it from its home page, and here's a screenshot of the thing:

Additionally, I was quite amazed at how easy it is to write GUI applications using just GTK in combination with Glade. Writing this tool took me only about an hour, with no previous knowledge. All it really required was creating a GTK Status Icon with an active signal handler. The handler pops up an interface put together in Glade by loading the gcountdown.glade file using gtk.glade.XML(). Connecting signals to the widgets is also super easy with signal_autoconnect().

Take a look at the source code. It's only a measly 136 lines.

• Added a `health` command which lets you set the player health (also a god-mode)
• Fixed a bug where only supplying an item ID to give/remove would not give the maximum stack size but would give a stack equal in size to the item ID specified.
• Fixed a bug where adding non-safe items to the inventory would give a stack size of 0.

You can get the new version Here.