Re: Zero padded file modes...

2013-09-05 Thread A Large Angry SCM
On 09/05/2013 11:36 AM, Jeff King wrote: [...] I haven't looked carefully at the pack v4 patches yet, but I suspect that yes, it's still a problem. The premise of pack v4 is that we can do better by not storing the raw git object bytes, but rather storing specialized representations of the var

Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

2013-07-16 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Those text files are installed as documentation (at least on my distribution). That's probably a distribution bug (or a git makefile bug, depending on how you look at it). It would be better to ship the HTML documentation, converted to text, instead of keeping the version with markup includin

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CommunityGuidelines

2013-06-10 Thread A Large Angry SCM
On 06/10/2013 04:56 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: A Large Angry SCM wrote: It is absolutely imperative to keep all our contributors productive, and maximize output. Why? A useful "product" with a maintainable code base are what seems to be more important to a successful open sou

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/CommunityGuidelines

2013-06-10 Thread A Large Angry SCM
On 06/10/2013 03:45 PM, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: [...] It is absolutely imperative to keep all our contributors productive, and maximize output. Why? A useful "product" with a maintainable code base are what seems to be more important to a successful open source effort. A L

Re: RFD: fast-import is picky with author names (and maybe it should - but how much so?)

2012-11-11 Thread A Large Angry SCM
On 11/11/2012 12:15 PM, Jeff King wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:00:44PM -0500, A Large Angry SCM wrote: a) Leave the name conversion to the export tools, and when they miss some weird corner case, like 'Author [...] b) Do the name conversion in fast-import itself, perhaps optionall

Re: RFD: fast-import is picky with author names (and maybe it should - but how much so?)

2012-11-11 Thread A Large Angry SCM
On 11/11/2012 12:16 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:00 PM, A Large Angry SCM wrote: On 11/11/2012 07:41 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: Such a filter would probably be quite complicated, and would decrease performance. Really? The fast import stream protocol is pretty

Re: RFD: fast-import is picky with author names (and maybe it should - but how much so?)

2012-11-11 Thread A Large Angry SCM
On 11/11/2012 07:41 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:25 PM, A Large Angry SCM wrote: On 11/10/2012 01:43 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: So, the options are: a) Leave the name conversion to the export tools, and when they miss some weird corner case, like 'Author

Re: RFD: fast-import is picky with author names (and maybe it should - but how much so?)

2012-11-10 Thread A Large Angry SCM
On 11/10/2012 01:43 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Michael J Gruber wrote: Felipe Contreras venit, vidit, dixit 09.11.2012 15:34: On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: Hg seems to store just anything in the author field ("committer"). The v

Documentation call for help

2005-09-09 Thread A Large Angry SCM
The good news: There is now some usable documentation for all the git commands except for the following: git-archimport (Martin?) gitk(Paul?) The bad news: Some, if not most, of the command documentation is incomplete or possibly incorrect. Mostly it's a case o

Re: [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

2005-09-09 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Naming and Directory Structure -- Annotations are named by appending ".txt" to the basename of the r

Re: [PATCH 0/2] A new merge algorithm, take 3

2005-09-08 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: [...] Subject: [PATCH] Multi-backend merge driver. This is just an illustration of concept patch. The new command 'git merge' takes the current head and one or more remote heads, with the commit log message for the automated case. If the heads being merged are simple fast

Re: [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

2005-09-08 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Naming and Directory Structure -- Annotations are named by appending ".txt" to the basename of the repository component it describes, and by appending ".dir" to each

Re: [RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

2005-09-08 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Chuck Lever wrote: yay! are you also proposing some git tools to deal with these? it would be great to have some version control (keep these like generation files so we can see the history of revisions). A Large Angry SCM wrote: GIT Repository Annotation Convention [...] I'

[RFC] GIT Repository Annotation Convention

2005-09-08 Thread A Large Angry SCM
GIT Repository Annotation Convention GIT repositories can benefit from descriptions of /intent/ for portions of the repository. This document formalizes a method to store those descriptions in the repository. Annotations Annotations are UTF8 text

Re: gitweb feature request: tarball for each commit

2005-09-08 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Kay Sievers wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:45:45AM +0200, Sven Verdoolaege wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:30:22PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: Actually... should get it done. I'll see if I can sneak it in sometime soon... This has been done at least twice already. See e.g., http://www.l

Re: git/cogito suggestion: tags with descriptions

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It would be great if tags also allowed a brief description to go along with them, that would show up in cg-tag-ls. Then I could seek to a tag that's just an easy-to-type version number, and still have an idea of what's significant abo

Re: Add git-version-script.

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: Martin Atukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This script simply reports the version of git you have installed. I wanted to ahve some way of recording the git version, but I am wondering if 'git' without parameter telling the version number would be good enough without int

git-stripspace unfairly accused of being undocumented.

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio, Looking over the latest commits I just noticed the "no documentation" section in git.txt lists git-stripspace in error. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-

Re: [PATCH] Docs for git-checkout-script.

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Actually, I'm cherry-picking the easier ones in an effort to reduce my stress about my impending move to the LA area. Hopefully you did git-diff-script, git-format-patch-script, and git-rev-parse which don't look easy to document. Junio C Hamano wrote: You read my mind. I just finished docu

[PATCH] Docs for git-show-rev-cache.

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/git-show-rev-cache.txt | 19 +-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) 818a8f421dfa978aa4df7103e34aeadf1ba971f5 diff --git a/Documentation/git-show-rev-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-sh

[PATCH] Docs for git-build-rev-cache.

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/git-build-rev-cache.txt | 20 ++-- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) c7c6e77b9efa05b8a7b84fdf630f4ff64664872f diff --git a/Documentation/git-build-rev-cache.txt b/Documentati

[PATCH] Docs for git-reset-script.

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/git-reset-script.txt | 27 +-- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) e6c59b4622ab3eac9c4a74cd1571136ab586ac5a diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset-script.txt b/Documentati

[PATCH] Docs for git-checkout-script.

2005-09-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/git-checkout-script.txt | 23 ++- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) ac5328903884c402905dd2a778ce51a00c041ffc diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout-script.txt b/Documentati

Re: git/gitweb - feature request: Add description to the branches.

2005-09-06 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Santi Béjar wrote: [...] One thing I'm missing is a way to describe a branch. It can be done in the $GIT_DIR/description, the first line for the whole repository and the rest for the branches. So description file for the git.git repository could be: [description]

Missing documentation

2005-09-05 Thread A Large Angry SCM
The following is the list of files in the Documentation directory that have *NO* useful text in them at all. git-build-rev-cache.txt git-checkout-script.txt git-diff-script.txt git-format-patch-script.txt git-get-tar-commit-id.txt git-reset-script.

Re: Bisection visualization hint..

2005-08-30 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm testing bisection to find a bug that causes my G5 to no longer boot, and during the process have found this command line very nice: gitk bisect/bad --not $(cd .git/refs ; ls bisect/good-*) it basically shows the sta

Re: [PATCH] Documentation for git-daemon.

2005-08-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, A Large Angry SCM wrote: >>Signed-off-by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Btw, I enjoy your email address and name, but especially with something > that is supposed to hopefully have some legal value down the line if > somebody s

[PATCH] Update Thunderbird specific hints.

2005-08-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
ches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ Thunderbird (A Large Angry SCM) Here are some hints on how to successfully submit patches inline using -Thunderbird. [*3*] +Thunderbird. This recipe appears t

[PATCH] Documentation for git-request-pull-script.

2005-08-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Copy & paste source comments into documentation. Signed-off-by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/git-request-pull-script.txt | 18 ++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) c309197099fceb12fa05d9aa23b0b7e5adf5f061 diff --git a/Documentation/git-request-pull-

[PATCH] Documentation for git-daemon.

2005-08-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Copy & paste source comments into documentation. Signed-off-by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/git-daemon.txt | 26 +- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) ea71ec7bde99f05a3766f5e1ad4ecc7bcb89ab13 diff --git a/Documentation/git-daemon.txt b/Docum

[PATCH] Documentation for git-applypatch.

2005-08-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Copy & paste source comments into documentation. Signed-off-by: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/git-applypatch.txt | 22 +- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) 0c00e0e3bd83cc1297e2581cae66aeebc65e52a6 diff --git a/Documentation/git-applypatch.txt b/D

Re: [PATCH] git-repack-script: Add option to repack all objects.

2005-08-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank, Can you produce a patch to update the git-repack-script documentation to reflect the new functionality? Not including the doc changes in the patch was my fault, but the message was meant primarily as an expla

Re: [PATCH] git-repack-script: Add option to repack all objects.

2005-08-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: This originally came from Frank Sorenson but with a bit of rework to allow future enhancement to the command without changing the external interface for removal part. With the '-a' option, all objects in the current repository are packed into a single pack. When the '-d' o

Re: [PATCH 6/9] New option --ignore-whitespace for git-apply.

2005-08-28 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Robert Fitzsimons wrote: Allow the user to force a patch to be applied even though there might be whitespace differences. Added a test case for the new option. If you ignore whitespace, then you should probably accept patches that are whitespace corr

Subject: [PATCH] Add some documentation.

2005-08-26 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Add some documentation. Text taken from the the commit messages and the command sources. --- I made no attempt to use the proper terminology, as defined by the new glossary, but instead used the text from the original commit messages and/or the program source. These are some of the easy ones. S

Re: [RFC] Looking at multiple ancestors in merge

2005-08-24 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Daniel Barkalow wrote: > I'm starting to work on letting the merging process see multiple > ancestors, and I think it's messy enough that I should actually discuss > it. > > Review of the issue: > > It is possible to lost reverts in cases when merging two commits with > multiple ancestors, in the

Submitting patches w/ Thunderbird [was: Re: [PATCH] Add SubmittingPatches]

2005-08-16 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >>Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Maybe we should enhance git-applymbox to detect whitespace corruption in >>>particular, and output the User-Agent header (or if that does not >>>exist, the M

Re: gitk "parent information" in commit window

2005-08-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Linus Torvalds wrote: This adds a useful "Parent:" line to the git commit information window. It looks something like this (from the infamous octopus merge): Author: Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-05-05 16:16:54 Committer: Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-05-05

Re: gitk "parent information" in commit window

2005-08-07 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Paul Mackerras wrote: ... I have been thinking about adding dialog windows to allow the user to select which repository and which range of commits they want to look at. Do you think that would be useful for you? Yes! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body o

Re: Template files location

2005-08-05 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: ... If the template files are to become something that always have to exist, /etc first and then falling back on /usr/share would make a lot of sense. But as Johannes Schindelin correctly argued against the "Use the template mechanism to set up refs/ hierarchy as well." pat

[PATCH] Fix warning about non-void return in a void function.

2005-08-01 Thread A Large Angry SCM
[PATCH] Fix warning about non-void return in a void function. Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- receive-pack.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) 8eda2e60f24221255b77e48f4dd60e2b025839ed diff --git a/receive-pack.c b/receive-pack.c --- a/r

Re: Fix interesting git-rev-list corner case

2005-07-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Ryan Anderson wrote: Maybe it'd make sense to have the commits refuse to add a commit when it would be younger than one of it's parents? Better not to trust timestamps in distributed federations since you can't guarantee any kind of accuracy across administrative boundaries. - To unsubscribe

Re: [RFC] extending git-ls-files --exclude.

2005-07-29 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Petr Baudis wrote: Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:25:45PM CEST, I got a letter where Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... Hi, A Large Angry SCM wrote: So you're arguing for "last match wins" versus "first match wins". I, personally, f

Re: [PATCH/RFC] "Recursive Make considered harmful"

2005-07-28 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: ... While I agree gitk should not come as part of git package, this brings up a different issue. Ideally, I'd want to see gitk packaged from its repository kernel.org:/pub/scm/gitk/git.git/ Paul Mackerras maintains, not from GIT one which _will_ lag behind. ... While I

Re: [RFC] extending git-ls-files --exclude.

2005-07-28 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Petr Baudis wrote: I think this is wrong, and my brief experiments confirm that. I think that the actually useful semantics of exclusion would be for _subsequent_ exclusions, not preliminary ones. You generally don't say "I never want this ignored, but I want the rest of that ignored", but "I w

Re: [PATCH/RFC] "Recursive Make considered harmful"

2005-07-27 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: While I do not have strong objections to make the build process go faster, it is somewhat disturbing that the Makefile pieces maintained in subdirectories need to name things they touch using paths that include the subdirectory names. I do not have a better alternative to s

Re: [PATCH/RFC] "Recursive Make considered harmful"

2005-07-27 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Kirby C. Bohling wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:25:10AM -0400, A Large Angry SCM wrote: Ryan Anderson wrote: Convert build process from recurse Make to a single Make Please explain the rational for this. I'm new to the list, but given the subject, I'm fairly confident it

Re: [PATCH/RFC] "Recursive Make considered harmful"

2005-07-27 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Ryan Anderson wrote: Convert build process from recurse Make to a single Make Please explain the rational for this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Linux BKCVS kernel history git import..

2005-07-26 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Diego Calleja wrote: > El Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:57:43 -0700 (PDT), > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >>I'm planning on doing the 2.4 tree too some day - either as a separate >>branch in the same archive, or as a separate git archive, I haven't quite > > It'd be great to have the sam

[PATCH] Add -a option to get-tag-script to annotate but not sign a tag

2005-07-24 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Add -a option to get-tag-script to annotate but not sign a tag Also fix the test for an existing tag. Signed-off-by: A Large Angry SCM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- git-tag-script | 21 +++-- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 del

Re: [PATCH 0/2] apply.c: a fix and an enhancement

2005-07-22 Thread A Large Angry SCM
Junio C Hamano wrote: Ryan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:56:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Now if we had a mechanism to graft a later history which starts at 2.6.12-rc2 on top of this earlier history leading up to it,... ;-) We do - it's not even very har