On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:07:51PM +, Joey Hess wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > since the second argument of commit would be a treeish, is that correct?
>
> Yes.
>
> (Although it looks like it won't be able to use the tarball created by
> git-archive directly, since git-archive does not p
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> since the second argument of commit would be a treeish, is that correct?
Yes.
(Although it looks like it won't be able to use the tarball created by
git-archive directly, since git-archive does not provide a way to order
the files correctly. Also since I don't want to rel
On 31/01/2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> I've been considering adding support to pristine-tar for checking
> deltas in and out of git directly.
Ah, nice.
> This provides a nice simple interface, and a uniform location for
> where to keep the deltas.
>
> Interface would be something like this:
>
> pris
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> as you probably know, git is a content tracker, and (at the moment at
> least) it completely ignores empty directories. Unfortunately, some
> upstream tend to ship tarballs containing empty directories, which lead
> to such problems while trying to re-use the delta generate
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> On 31/01/2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> > My guess is that could be fixed as follows. If not, the bit in parens
> > after the error message should tell more.
>
> It's not fixed.
>
> Error messages for the testsuite run:
> | paranoia check failed on params file from delta (-n --
On 31/01/2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> My guess is that could be fixed as follows.
Err, indeed, thanks.
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On 31/01/2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> My guess is that could be fixed as follows. If not, the bit in parens
> after the error message should tell more.
It's not fixed.
Error messages for the testsuite run:
| paranoia check failed on params file from delta (-n --osflag 0) at
/usr/bin/pristine-gz line
Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I didn't check yet why (remember, I'm very new to pristine-tar) but the
> 5 above trigger: “paranoia check failed on params file from delta”. I'll
> check that later.
My guess is that could be fixed as follows. If not, the bit in parens
after the error message should tell
Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/01/2008):
> Without having to modify the current format, one might want
> pristine-tar to assume that all missing files are empty directories,
> first patch. But one might want that only when an option is passed,
> second patch.
I've written a tiny testsuite
Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/01/2008):
> I guess the documentation could be adapted (as well as error messages)
> to suggest the use of this option when gentar breaks the way I
> mentioned in my original mail.
Too late to git-commit --amend the second patch, but the SYNOPSIS needs
an up
tag 463352 patch
thanks
Cyril Brulebois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (31/01/2008):
> - modify the format of deltas so as to support empty directories
>there. Already-existing trees (upstream branches, and their tags)
>wouldn't have to be modified, it would just be needed (if there are
>some di
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Hi,
as you probably know, git is a content tracker, and (at the moment at
least) it completely ignores empty directories. Unfortunately, some
upstream tend to ship tarballs containing empty directories, which lead
to such problems while trying
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