> On Mar 30, 2015, at 4:55 AM, Giacomo Tesio <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ah, a small addendum: obviously we also use tags a lot to give a specific
> commit (and related history) a name.
> This is done automatically by build servers for the "official" tags, and
> manually by developers whenever they want in their own repository (often with
> tags like, "workedhere", "shittorefactortomorrow" and so on).
All of those features are available in hg, darcs, and other dscm tools.
But to get back on topic, unless I’ve overlooked a contrib package somewhere,
how about we begin with the requirements to get a fully working git installed
on Plan 9. For example,
## the dependencies required for git on a bare-bones FreeBSD install:
# pkg install git
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 18 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
git: 2.3.4
expat: 2.1.0_2
p5-Authen-SASL: 2.16_1
p5-GSSAPI: 0.28_1
perl5: 5.18.4_11
p5-Digest-HMAC: 1.03_1
p5-Net-SMTP-SSL: 1.01_3
p5-IO-Socket-SSL: 2.012
p5-Mozilla-CA: 20141217
p5-Net-SSLeay: 1.68
p5-Socket: 2.018
p5-IO-Socket-IP: 0.37
python27: 2.7.9
libffi: 3.2.1
p5-Error: 0.17023
curl: 7.41.0
ca_root_nss: 3.18
cvsps: 2.1_1
I’m not sure what cvsps is for, that seems to have cropped up on the fbsd pkg
sometime between git versions 2.3.1 and 2.3.4. It’s been years^wdecades since
I’ve tinkered with perl, and I’m fairly certain the perl 5.8 version available
on Plan 9 won’t support the modules included in the above list. So Plan 9
needs a modern perl to run git effectively with specific attention to the
additional modules. Expat is the “eXpat XML parser library”. Libffi is
something maintained on sources.redhat.com. Many of those modules depend on
OpenSSL, so add that to the list. It’s also possible a recent port of bash
will also be required as the git support scripts may not work with our ape/sh
or ape/psh. We’ve got python 2.7.8 [.9 soon] covered.
Piece of cake, all that should fit on a coaster.
-jas
