Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Lang
requirements, it can't just be implicit or in e-mail, it requires a signed document, so unless you sign a document stating that you are transferring copyright, you don't have to worry about that. David Lang On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:06:16 +0100 From

Re: question about: Facebook makes Mercurial faster than Git

2014-03-10 Thread David Lang
else is minor. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [RFC/WIP] Pluggable reference backends

2014-03-10 Thread David Lang
into a different directory thatn your source, you may be able to detect that things didn't change by the fact that the filesystem didn't have to do a rewrite of the parent node. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord

Re: question about: Facebook makes Mercurial faster than Git

2014-03-10 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Ondřej Bílka wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:13:45AM -0700, David Lang wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Dennis Luehring wrote: according to these blog posts http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/facebook-scaling-hg https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling

Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

2014-04-22 Thread David Lang
how there are inconsistancies between commands, or they don't understand what's happening. Adding a new inconsistancy, or changing words to abbreviations is a further barrier against new users, not an advantage for them. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git

Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

2014-04-23 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Felipe Contreras wrote: David Lang wrote: agreed, of all the things that people complain about regarding learning git, the fact that the commands are words instead of cryptic 2 letter abberviations is not one of them. It is when they start to use Git seriously and type

Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

2014-04-24 Thread David Lang
instead of rb causes a major problem Calm down and stop accusing everyone of sticking their heads in the ground David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-29 Thread David Lang
message, don't touch it. Then people can use whatever they want (including environment variables) as part of their messages. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-29 Thread David Lang
someone run it, and after that it will be installed locally and run after every pull (and can therefor replace itself), but it requires that they run it manually the first time. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord

Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

2014-05-02 Thread David Lang
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Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

2014-05-03 Thread David Lang
and are trying to improve Git. Thanks. No need to expand on the welcoming atmosphere here. note that this is one person taking the I don't see any commits from you so your opinion doesn't count attitude. the vast majority of people here do not take that attitude. David Lang My heinous plot

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29)

2014-05-08 Thread David Lang
be a possibility, but they are more like a hack. Well, if git.git can't use them, then how can anyone else be expected to. I haven't been paying close attention for a while, what would have to be done to make submodules an integral part of Git? David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Is there any efficient way to track history of a piece of code?

2014-05-09 Thread David Lang
do something along the lines of git filterbranch that could create a clone of a repo with all commits cleaned up. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org

Re: Watchman support for git

2014-05-09 Thread David Lang
, but with even stock git being faster than improved mercurial. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Watchman support for git

2014-05-09 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 9 May 2014, David Turner wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 00:08 -0700, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2014, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: On 03.05.2014 05:40, Felipe Contreras wrote: That's very interesting. Do you get similar improvements when doing something similar in Merurial

Re: Watchman support for git

2014-05-09 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 9 May 2014, David Turner wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 11:08 -0700, David Lang wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2014, David Turner wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 00:08 -0700, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2014, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: On 03.05.2014 05:40, Felipe Contreras wrote: That's

Re: Can I fetch an arbitrary commit by sha1?

2014-10-06 Thread David Lang
be very stable. You do have the namespace issue, but unless you have a lot of different people tagging in the same repository, that shouldn't be an issue (and if you do, can't you use the person's name as part of the tag?) David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

2013-06-04 Thread David Lang
improving them as standalone projects. If you can, you should leave just enough of a stub in place so that people who don't know about the change and try to run the stuff that used to be in contrib/ get a message pointing them to the new home. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

2013-06-06 Thread David Lang
, and then fade in favor of other languages while Perl has continued. It's not the sexy languange nowdays, but it's there, reliable, and used so heavily that there's really no chance of it dissapearing in the forseable future. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

2013-06-06 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: David Lang wrote: Perl use may or may not be declining (depending on how you measure it), but are you really willing to take on the task of re-writing everything that's in Perl into another language and force all developers of scripts to learn

Re: Reviews on mailing-list

2012-11-11 Thread David Lang
pending reviews along with everything else. David Lang

Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change

2012-11-25 Thread David Lang
be the last (even, or especially if it does get re-written in Python ;-) David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?

2012-11-27 Thread David Lang
. If the timestamps are within a minute or so, you are in pretty good shape. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
in their local repository and what you then bless as the authoritative 'released' version of the code. However, this master repository is just a matter of convention, it is possible to use any repository as the 'origin', changing it is just a config change away. David Lang -- To unsubscribe

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
of problems. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: David Lang da...@lang.hm wrote in message news:alpine.deb.2.02.1301161459060.21...@nftneq.ynat.uz... But if you try to have one filesystem, with multiple people running git on their machines against that shared filesystem, I would expect you

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: Linus seemed to think it should work: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/122670 In the link you point at, he says that you can

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] Linus says that git does not have proper locking, so think about it, what do you think will happen if person A does git add a/b; git commit and person B does git add c/d; git commit? Sorry, I wasn't

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: 1. a bare repository that is normally accessed only by git push and git pull (or git fetch), the central repository model. pulling from it would

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-17 Thread David Lang
to any of the local machines, such as on a network server (and which I'm assuming has git installed locally as well). What am I missing? The 'other' David Lang ;-) -Original Message- From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 6:01 PM To: Stephen Smith Cc

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-17 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz wrote: From: git-ow...@vger.kernel.org [git-ow...@vger.kernel.org] on behalf of Lang, David [david.l...@uhn.ca] The other David Lang (da...@lang.hm) believes that using git push using NFS or CIFS/SMB may not be safe and reliable. Based on the following

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-18 Thread David Lang
, David Lang On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Lang, David wrote: Hi Matt and David, Your responses have been very helpful for this newbie...thanks very much! I have a good sense now of the difference btw a CVCS and a DVCS. Here are two more questions... 1. I now get the sense that there's quite a few

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-18 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang da...@lang.hm writes: What I would do is to have each developer have their own local copy that they are working on. I would then find a machine that is going to be on all the time (which could be a developer's desktop), and create

Re: Merge with git-pasky II.

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
is a patch, and a rename-file.c to use it. Simon given that you have multiple machines creating files, how do you deal with the idea of the same 'unique id' being assigned to different files by different machines? David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way

Re: space compression (again)

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
in that directory, this would be that if the hash on the file hasn't changed we don't need to re-check the chunks inside that file. David Lang On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Ray Heasman wrote: Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:33:03 -0700 From: Ray Heasman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: space

Re: SHA1 hash safety

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
quote statistics that show how hard it is to intentiallly create two files with the same hash and insist it just doesn't happen until presented by the proof, at which point it is a big deal. a difference in viewpoints. David Lang On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Date: Sat, 16 Apr

Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
-rc2 David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Yet another base64 patch

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
been accessed by a kernel that didn't understand the extention then the htree functionality won't be used until you manually tell the system to generate the tree) David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously

Re: [PATCH] write-tree performance problems

2005-04-19 Thread David Lang
sense or be useful? David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Last mile to 1.0?

2005-07-16 Thread David Lang
will save a significant amount of processing power. would it make sense to have it do something along the lines of sending the day;s pack file plus a small number of individual object (even if the pack file will partially duplicate object the puller already has) David Lang -- There are two ways

Re: Git chokes on large file

2014-05-28 Thread David Lang
that show up in the implementation when you use individual files 4GB such files tend to also not diff well. git-annex and other offshoots hae methods boled on that handle such large files better than core git does. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git

Re: Git chokes on large file

2014-05-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Dale R. Worley wrote: From: David Lang da...@lang.hm Git was designed to track source code, there are warts that show up in the implementation when you use individual files 4GB I'd expect that if you want to deal with files over 100k, you should assume that it doesn't

Re: Git chokes on large file

2014-05-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang da...@lang.hm writes: On Wed, 28 May 2014, Dale R. Worley wrote: It seems that much of Git was coded under the assumption that any file could always be held entirely in RAM. Who made that mistake? Are people so out of touch

Re: Multi-threaded 'git clone'

2015-02-16 Thread David Lang
:-) David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Multi-threaded 'git clone'

2015-02-16 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Jeff King wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 05:31:13AM -0800, David Lang wrote: I think it's an interesting question to look at, but before you start looking at changing the architecture of the current code, I would suggest doing a bit more analisys of the problem to see

Re: Promoting Git developers

2015-03-16 Thread David Lang
visibility. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Promoting Git developers

2015-03-16 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang da...@lang.hm writes: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote: Christian Couder christian.cou...@gmail.com writes: I wrote something about a potential Git Rev News news letter: I read it. Sounds promising. Just one suggestion

Re: VCS popularity

2015-03-31 Thread David Lang
datapoint, but activity in the repos would be far more interesting. There are a lot of repos of various types out there that haven't been touched for years. David Lang

Re: VCS popularity

2015-03-31 Thread David Lang
copies public more than Mercurial does (with github being the extreme case) David Lang

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread David Lang
to point at to justify your opinion. I'm not saying that there isn't room for improvement, I'm just saying that the evidence provided is not as one-sided as they make it sound. David Lang

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] protocol v2

2015-03-01 Thread David Lang
reason and attempt to recover. how would these approaches be affected by a client that is pulling from different remotes into one local repository? For example, pulling from the main kernel repo and from the -stable repo. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] protocol v2

2015-03-01 Thread David Lang
of disk space compared to CPU and be willing to have lots of packs around, others are less busy and will only want to keep a few around. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http

RE: Repository Code Security (Plan Text)

2015-06-24 Thread David Lang
measures do you have in place to keep them from taking sensitive Word Docs or spreadsheets when they leave? do the same thing to deal with their access to code. David Lang Thanks, Brian -Original Message- On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:18:00 + BGaudreault Brian bgaudrea...@edrnet.com

RE: Repository Code Security (Plan Text)

2015-06-24 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, BGaudreault Brian wrote: Hi David Lang, I'm sorry, but I'm confused by your first two responses. Am I not contacting Git when I e-mail this e-mail address? You sound like you don't know exactly how GitHub works. Should I be contacting someone else for GitHub support

Re: Git: How to keep multiple bare repos in sync?

2015-06-02 Thread David Lang
a pull request to whoever is coordinating the changes, and they then pull all the different changes and deal with reconciling conflicts between them. David Lang -- chenxitwo not remote sync. We have three teams to participate in the same project, and is located in different places

Re: [OT] USENIX paper on Git

2016-08-03 Thread David Lang
t how can I tell if this is really Joe Blow the developer? and if it is, I still have no way of knowing if he's working for the NSA or not. The lack of meaningful termination of the signatures to the real world is why so few people bother to check package signatures, etc. David Lang -- To u

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-18 Thread David Lang
that collide. This won't hurt a Git repository unless one of these manipulated files is able to be introduced as a legitimate part of the repo you are dealing with. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-19 Thread David Lang
SHA-1-based project using SHA-256-based submodules. they have different upstreams, what if the upstream of the submodule has upgraded and is using signed commits of the sha-256 but the upstream of the parent hasn't and is using signed commits of sha1? David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-19 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:34 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote: But we can recreate SHA-1 from the

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-19 Thread David Lang
ld you define this cutoff point? David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
the best way to go? David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
for whatever reason) David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
his flag "newhash" for lack of a better term. so how do you interact with someone who only expects the old commit instead of the commit-v2? David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
one. as the saying goes "in computer science the interesting numbers are 0, 1, and many", does it really simplify things much to support 2 hashes vs supporting more so that this issue doesn't have to be revisited? (other than selecting new hashes over time) David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
ng into github or assuming that github is putting both files into the same repo, both of which are fairly unlikely) David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
it is one more push to make the changes to support something else. David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
tively serve either repository to targeted users. This will require attackers to compute their own collision. David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
shattered-1.pdf 5bd9d8cabc46041579a311230539b8d1 shattered-2.pdf David Lang

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-18 Thread David Lang
you point at an example of how to do this? when I went looking about a year ago to deal with single-line json data I wasn't able to find anything good. I ended up using clean/smudge to pretty-print the json so it was easier to handle. David Lang

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-18 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote: On 18 August 2016 at 18:56, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote: JN>> You can find rezip clean/smudge filter (originally intended for JN>> OpenDocument Format (ODF), that is OpenOffice.org et

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-16 Thread David Lang
of this when storing, diff-ing and merging these files? you should be able to use clean/smudge to have git store the files uncompressed, which will help a lot. I think there's a way to tell it to do a xml aware diff/patch, but I don't remember how. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-16 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: On Aug 16 2016, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I would like to store Simulink models in a Git repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the binary format happens to be a z

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-17 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: On Aug 16 2016, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I would like to store Simulink models in a Git repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the binary format happens to be a z

Re: feature request

2016-10-27 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, John Rood wrote: Thanks, I think changing the default for windows is a good idea. notepad doesn't work well with unix line endings, wordpad handles the files much more cleanly. David Lang

Re: Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang <da...@lang.hm> writes: Ship a config.h.sample file, have a Makefile rule that is forced to run before any compilation happens that checks if config.h exists and then created it if missing by copying config.h.sample over, and th

Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
, but we need it to work on Linux, Windows and OSX) Any thoughts on a sane way to handle this situation? David Lang

Re: Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 3:29 PM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: for an embedded project built inside the Arduino IDE, (alternate firmware for a home automation project) there is a need to set a number of parameters that we really

Re: Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
other source files can include config.h without having to know anything about config.h.sample's existence. Did I miss something? There is no makefile with the arduino IDE/build system :-( David Lang

Re: RFC: Another proposed hash function transition plan

2017-03-05 Thread David Lang
hashes recording the commits is going to be in the millions, whiel the list of hashes of individual files for all those commits is going to be substantially larger. David Lang

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread David Lang
will affect the repository in the same way that binaries do. Not quite the same way that binaries do, because text files compress well. but close. David Lang

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread David Lang
this is not the case with binary files, hence the need for LFS). well, it wouldn't be 4G because text compresses well, but if the file changes drastically from version to version (say a quarterly report), the diff won't help. David Lang

Re: hot to get file sizes in git log output

2017-10-20 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, David Lang wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Eric Sunshine wrote: I'm not exactly sure what you mean by size, but if you want to show how many lines were added and removed by a given commit for each file, you can use the "--stat" option to produce a diffstat.

Re: hot to get file sizes in git log output

2017-10-20 Thread David Lang
But I don't have any specific line I can look at, the lines that are there change pretty regularly, and/or would not have changed at the transition. git whatchanged shows commits like: commit fb7e54c12ddc7c87c4862806d583f5c6abf3e731 Author: David Lang <da...@lang.hm> Date: Fri Oct 20

Re: Hash algorithm analysis

2018-06-11 Thread David Lang
it really make a human visible difference? David Lang

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-08 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Peter Backes wrote: you are the one arguing that the GDPR prohibits Git from storing and revealing this license granting data, not me. It prohibits publishing, and only after a request to be forgotten. It does not prohibit storing your private copy. Wrong, if you have to

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-08 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Peter Backes wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 12:42:54AM -0700, David Lang wrote: Wrong, if you have to delete info, you are not allowed to keep a private copy. Yes you are allowed. See Art. 17 (3) lit e GDPR. There is _nothing_ in the GDPR about publishing information

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-12 Thread David Lang
the Git commit history once it has been recorded. End Quote I'll point out that not only did the Github lawyers need to sign off on this stance, but the Microsoft lawyers would have looked at it as well as part of their purchase of Github. David Lang

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-07 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Peter Backes wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 03:38:49PM -0700, David Lang wrote: Again: The GDPR certainly allows you to keep a proof of copyright privately if you have it. However, it does not allow you to keep publishing it if someone exercises his right to be forgotten

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-07 Thread David Lang
to keep it internally and use it. David Lang There is simply no justification for publishing against the explicit will of the subject, except for the rare circumstances where there are overriding legitimate grounds for doing so. I hardly see those for the average author entry in your everyday

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-06 Thread David Lang
, this looks like a very reasonable statement to me. But I am not a lawyer. I will also say that I think it would be very reasonable for projects to not accept code from someone who doesn't give them any way to contact them later in case there is a question about authorship or licensing. David Lang

hot to get file sizes in git log output

2017-10-20 Thread David Lang
I'm needing to scan through git history looking for the file sizes (looking for when a particular file shrunk drastically) I'm not seeing an option in git log or git whatchanged that gives me the file size, am I overlooking something? David Lang

Re: [PATCH v1 00/25] RFC: structured logging

2018-07-13 Thread David Lang
Please make an option for git to write these logs to syslog, not just a local file. Every modern syslog daemon has lots of tools to be able to deal with json messages well. David Lang