There is a way to download files. I will poke around. Thanks!
Spencer

On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote:

> If they have any sort of front-end viewer to the repositories, and if there's 
> any way in that viewer to view/download the raw file (and the path for that 
> includes a "blob SHA1", which is the type of SHA1 that's in a diff -- should 
> be testable by doing your own diff against something in the repository and 
> comparing), then things will work.
> 
> Without having access to that server, I can't investigate it, though. You'll 
> have to poke around.
> 
> Christian
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> On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:34 PM, sma...@origamisoftware.com wrote:
> 
>> OK, so I won't be able to use Reviewboard because I don't have access to 
>> machine the repo is running on. Ah well. 
>> 
>> I am not sure which frontend it is using. It is branded 
>> source.the_company.com which 'the_company' is some big company. Everyone in 
>> this large company is encouraged to use it. 
>> 
>> It is entirely possibly that "the_company" rolled their own front end 
>> although it is a bit more polished than a lot of the other internal apps so 
>> I am guessing they started somewhere. I looked at the HTML for some clues as 
>> to wether this was a customized framework or their own but came up short. 
>> Featurewise it is like a poorman's github. You can't directly commit code 
>> using it. It provides a clone URL (just like github).  It has a dashboard. 
>> You can view commits. 
>> 
>> Sorry, I can't be more specific. I just don't know. 
>> 
>> Spencer
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:06:01 PM UTC-5, David Trowbridge wrote:
>> What frontend is it using?
>> 
>> 
>> -David
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:16 AM, <sma...@origamisoftware.com> wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> Thanks for the info. Ironically, 
>> ssh://x...@source.mycompany.com/base/git/project is already hosted on a 
>> website that like, but neither gitweb or cgit so introducing a third layer 
>> here seems like less than a good idea to me. 
>> 
>> Does cgit needs to be installed on the machine where the remote repo lives? 
>> (I don't have access to that machine)
>>  
>> I did try installing on the machine where I am running reviewboard, but when 
>> I got the second installation instruction (git submodule init), I got this 
>> error:
>> 
>> Submodule 'git' (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git) registered for 
>> path 'git'
>> 
>> -S. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 4:41:46 PM UTC-5, David Trowbridge wrote:
>> The issue here is that git does not support getting raw files directly from 
>> a remote repository. You'll need to use a frontend that supports this (such 
>> as cgit or gitweb) and use the raw-file URL. See 
>> http://www.reviewboard.org/docs/manual/1.7/admin/configuration/repositories/#raw-file-urls
>>  for more info.
>> 
>> 
>> -David
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:37 PM, <sma...@origamisoftware.com> wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> This looks a bit of FAQ, but I tried working through the solutions I found 
>> posted without success. 
>> 
>> Basically, I can't create reviews using git and git diff. I've tried both 
>> the command line line version of git-diff and using post-review. 
>> 
>> 
>> I got this:
>> 
>> Error uploading diff
>> 
>> The generated diff file was empty. This usually means no files were
>> modified in this change.
>> 
>> Try running with --output-diff and --debug for more information.
>> 
>> Your review request still exists, but the diff is not attached.
>> 
>> generates this:
>> 
>> So I did this 
>> 
>> post-review --parent=master --username=smarks --password=****
>> 
>> which generates: 
>> 
>>  post-review --parent=master --username=smarks --password=*** --output-diff 
>> --debug
>> >>> RBTools 0.4.3
>> >>> Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:16:07) 
>> [GCC 4.6.3]
>> >>> Running on Linux-3.2.0-37-generic-pae-i686-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
>> >>> Home = /home/sam
>> >>> Current Directory = /home/sam/project
>> >>> Checking the repository type. Errors shown below are mostly harmless.
>> DEBUG:root:Checking for a Bazaar repository...
>> DEBUG:root:Checking for a CVS repository...
>> DEBUG:root:Checking for a ClearCase repository...
>> DEBUG:root:Checking for a Git repository...
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git rev-parse --git-dir
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git config core.bare
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git rev-parse --show-toplevel
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git symbolic-ref -q HEAD
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git config --get branch.master.merge
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git config --get branch.master.remote
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git config --get remote.origin.url
>> DEBUG:root:repository info: Path: 
>> ssh://x...@source.mycompany.com/base/git/project, Base path: , Supports 
>> changesets: False
>> >>> Finished checking the repository type.
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git config --get reviewboard.url
>> >>> HTTP GETting api/info/
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git merge-base origin/master refs/heads/master
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git diff --no-color --full-index --no-ext-diff 
>> --ignore-submodules --no-renames master -M
>> DEBUG:root:Running: git diff --no-color --full-index --no-ext-diff 
>> --ignore-submodules --no-renames 
>> e3c8c6323531ba0dfd7790c49e984622cbac885f..master -M
>> diff --git a/doc/ReadMe.txt b/doc/ReadMe.txt
>> index 
>> 079eb6ba65d3a26ff88e7ef0908f4e4f0d61ab7a..9daa1db1b2eb7ace6e5f3b6086b9572ea90c2aac
>>  100644
>> --- a/doc/ReadMe.txt
>> +++ b/doc/ReadMe.txt
>> @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
>>  Project documentation can go in this folder. 
>>  
>> -Please put some here
>> +Link to a the wiki would be OK or please put some here.
>> +
>>  
>> -Link to a the wiki would be OK too
>>  
>>  Thanks...
>> +
>> +
>> 
>> So there is a diff (which is not empty), but apparently it not getting 
>> pushed up to review board correctly. 
>> 
>> 
>> When I tried just using git diff > my.diff
>> Which contains:
>> diff --git a/doc/ReadMe.txt b/doc/ReadMe.txt
>> index 079eb6b..9daa1db 100644
>> --- a/doc/ReadMe.txt
>> +++ b/doc/ReadMe.txt
>> @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
>>  Project documentation can go in this folder. 
>>  
>> -Please put some here
>> +Link to a the wiki would be OK or please put some here.
>> +
>>  
>> -Link to a the wiki would be OK too
>>  
>>  Thanks...
>> +
>> +
>> 
>> 
>> and uploading my.diff to the server I get:
>> fatal: Not a git repository: 'None'
>> 
>> There no logging entries for this error. 
>> 
>> My repository is configured like this:
>> 
>> name = "foo"
>> hosting server= None (Custom repository) 
>> Repository Type = Git
>> Path = ssh://x...@source.mycompany.com/base/git/project  (which works with 
>> git clone ssh://x...@source.mycompany.com/base/git/project from the command 
>> line)
>> 
>> All the other fields are empty. 
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any help resolving this issue. 
>> 
>> S. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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