To Jim, Phil, and Arjen: On 2017-02-20 00:38-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote:
> I need your help to sort out git. Long story short, I had a disk corruption on the VM that I was doing my development work and had to recover my work. I manage to get my wingdi driver recovered from the smoking heap. @Jim: My sympathies concerning your hardware troubles. I am especially sensitive to that issue because I just went through a hardware scare myself (spent a lot of yesterday running hardware tests when I ran into the *.pyc corruption issue). But amazingly this 9-year-old hardware (with an ASUS motherboard which might be the reason for this longevity) still passes all hardware tests, and I have concluded (with a fair amount of confidence) that the *.pyc corruption issue must be due to some Python bug. So I plan to keep using this hardware for a while longer. > Unfortunately, I appear to be having problems with the git repository on SourceForge and I am not sure of the cause—I cannot even clone from SourceForge. @Jim, Phil, and Arjen: I used the git SF server just this morning with no issues. Also, for the reasons discussed in README.developers you should avoid all gui versions or "enhanced" versions of git (i.e., try to stick as much as possible to the real thing). Bearing those constraints in mind, that file recommends <https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit> for Windows users, but I just discovered from looking at that site that it has been obsoleted and msysgit developers now recommend using the "Git for Windows" <https://git-for-windows.github.io/> version of git instead. (I confirmed from that website it considers itself light-weight [check!] and it does have a command-line version [check!]). So please give the command-line version of that project a try, and let us know whether it works well for you (which would allow us to recommend that Windows version of git in our README.developers file). Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
