Re: OT: automation (was: News 2009-08-31, documentation, wiki)

2009-10-24 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009 09:03:10 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:27:37AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Am Montag, 28. September 2009 10:16:29 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: > > > Even that (usually) is not hard at all if you know your Unix shell > > >

Re: Mercurial vs. git

2009-10-24 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Olaf, Am Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009 06:08:49 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > Depends on how you count. Of course you can manage to live somehow > knowing only part of the features of the VCS; and I'm willing to believe > that getting to this point is indeed somewhat easier with Mercurial. >

Re: Shutting down some Hurd mailing lists?

2009-10-24 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009 09:35:22 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > And we can always think about splitting them up again, when the traffic > really becomes a problem... OK, agreed :) Best wishes, Arne --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein, ohne es zu

Re: Mercurial vs. git

2009-10-24 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 24. Oktober 2009 06:10:38 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > Complexity? I still think that Git is actually very simple in its > fundamental concepts. It only seems complex to people who haven't yet > fully mastered these concepts... That's true with any system, no matter how complex :

nsmux on / (was: nsmux Documentation)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:45:32PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 30. September 2009 18:36:34 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > > > It reads nice, but I miss an info: How can I activate nsmux, so I > > > can use the magic filenames? > > Can I also put it "on /"? That way I could a

Re: [PATCH] Implement the sync libnetfs stubs.

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 05:04:07PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 08:57:46PM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > The origianl patch is wrong and needs to be reverted, and a new one > > comitted once all concerns actually have been addressed. > > A follow-up p

Re: Mercurial vs. git

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:19:09AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Still: It's a damn nice system, too, and since I can now interact with > (almost) any git repo via Mercurial, it's complexity doesn't really > bother me anymore. Complexity? I still think that Git is actually very simp

Re: Source repositories, unionmount code

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16:15AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:53:08AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 02:30:46PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > Simply let branches like SAVANNAH_LOGIN/* be our way of having a > personal reposi

Re: Software (and text) management

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:53:11AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > The only way I know for getting me to find more errors is to convert > the format, so the text looks different. I assume that my brain then > partly forgets that I wrote it and stops claiming that it must be > correct ;)

Re: Shutting down some Hurd mailing lists?

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:37:42PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > IIRC hurd-devel was a private list, so if you shut it down just shut > it down completely rather than making it forward anywhere. It was public but invite-only. Not sure whether that's what you mean by "private"... -antrik-

temporary branches (was: News 2009-08-31, documentation, wiki)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:19:41PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > So, personal branches in the Hurd wiki repository are fine for > temporary changes, right? Yes. -antrik-

Re: VCS

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:16:04AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Dienstag, 22. September 2009 00:44:55 schrieb > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > > The only major advantage of Mercurial over Git seems to be that it's > > easier to grasp initially (at least for people coming from CVS/SVN)

unionmount branches (was: News 2009-08-31)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:21:13PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > According to what Thomas has suggested, I have pushed my code to the > unionfs git repository (git://git.sv.gnu.org/hurd/unionfs.git) in a > topic branch (master-unionmount). That's not a topic branch. Topic branches are essent

live CD README (was: Source repositories, unionmount code)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:59:06AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Maybe it would help testing to have a README in the new LiveCD which > says, which commandline commands to use to test the translators (down > to simple copy paste) - including a list of interesting translators. AIUI B

Re: Shutting down some Hurd mailing lists?

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:32:51PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Which brings us (back?) to another topic: should we shut down some > Hurd mailing lists? web-hurd and hurd-devel aren't being used at all; > help-hurd hardly so; what about l4-hurd? I'd say: > > * web-hurd: totally unused

Re: hurd-web/hurd/translator/unionmount.mdwn

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:41:30PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:40:05AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 11:04:58PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:15:44AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > > > On

Re: News 2009-08-31, documentation, wiki

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16:29AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:08:23AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > Anyway, I hope the solution I suggested above (adding the > > documentation to my hurd-web page) should be good. > > There's no need to (more or less) hide th

Re: Mercurial vs. git

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:55:41PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > But to know enough about Mercurial for 95% of the use cases you need > far less time than for git. A few quotes I collected to back that up: Depends on how you count. Of course you can manage to live somehow knowing on

Re: nsmux: Integration with the Hurd Git Repository

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 02:35:14PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:40:29AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net > wrote: > > Of course, you also need to adapt the build system somewhere along > > the way... > > Which way would be preferred: adapting the build system before

OT: automation (was: News 2009-08-31, documentation, wiki)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:27:37AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Montag, 28. September 2009 10:16:29 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: > > Even that (usually) is not hard at all if you know your Unix shell > > scripting: find / grep / sed / ... > > That's true... I think I even wrote a sma

nsmux on / (was: nsmux Documentation)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:16:38AM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > A secure way to use it on the entire filesystem would be to make use > of settrans -C flag, to start a shell chrooted to nsmux but not > actually set on /. This way only programs started from the shell > would be affected

default features (was: nsmux Documentation)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 08:23:24AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > PS: I think that to get people to do some more testing, a few easy to > use examples (and one complex and powerful example) would be efficient > - especially if they directly contain the shell commands to use (copy > pas

Re: Shutting down some Hurd mailing lists?

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:24:41AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 21:32:51 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: > > * help-hurd: mostly unused, shut down. Forward to bug-hurd. > > Rationale: people seeking help about using the Hurd end up on the > > debian-hu