Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >>> for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all >>> the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnu

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all >> the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4 >> gpgv). > > You say that as if there were a

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > for now the new tag and fallback to --short-log fixes all > the immediate problems I was having (except the reliance on gnupg-1.4 > gpgv). You say that as if there were a problem with the maint.mk rule. The rule relies on the existence of

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> However, isn't this based on the premise that shallow clones are >> somehow useful? > > Sure. Why copy 8000 changesets when you know for sure that you only > care about the last 100 or s

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-29 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > However, isn't this based on the premise that shallow clones are > somehow useful? Sure. Why copy 8000 changesets when you know for sure that you only care about the last 100 or so at the most? > Did you try the recommended procedure

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-28 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I have just pushed a signed v0.1 tag. It holds no particular meaning. >> >> I find that smaller commit-count numbers are more reader-friendly >> than the 8000+ numbers we ha

Re: gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Jim, On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I have just pushed a signed v0.1 tag. It holds no particular meaning. > > I find that smaller commit-count numbers are more reader-friendly > than the 8000+ numbers we had reached relative to the v0.0 patch. > > Thus, for the next 999

gnulib-v0.1: a non-event

2013-10-28 Thread Jim Meyering
I have just pushed a signed v0.1 tag. It holds no particular meaning. I find that smaller commit-count numbers are more reader-friendly than the 8000+ numbers we had reached relative to the v0.0 patch. Thus, for the next 999 commits, git describe will print something like this: v0.1-NNN-g