Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-05-10 Thread Dave MacFarlane
> > > > How does it compare performance wise with git9 ? > > https://github.com/oridb/git9 > Based on the unscientific testing I just did of cloning the same repo (dgit's) a few times, they're in the same ballpark (~13s on 9front amd64.) git9 had a couple faster runs and dgit a couple slower

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-05-10 Thread ori
> Den tors 7 maj 2020 16:17Dave MacFarlane skrev: > >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 9:12 PM Sean Hinchee wrote: >> >>> As a footnote, there's a decent git client written in Go that works >>> alright on plan9 [4], but it's slow and memory intensive at the >>> moment. >>> >>> >> [...] >> >> [4]

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-05-10 Thread Jim Manley
I don't know if he's on here, but Al Kossow (aek at bitsavers dot org), the Software Curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA (SillyCon Valley, just down the road from the Googleplex) might be interested in this, if he isn't already aware of what's going on. He's an expert on

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-05-10 Thread hiro
> state of shiny for Plan 9 from your advantage point? It deserves a since you posted this question to the list: what is shiny? -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T303744e1ec6d2108-M24bd2c157af206cb71b81655 Delivery

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-05-09 Thread Jens Staal
Den tors 7 maj 2020 16:17Dave MacFarlane skrev: > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 9:12 PM Sean Hinchee wrote: > >> As a footnote, there's a decent git client written in Go that works >> alright on plan9 [4], but it's slow and memory intensive at the >> moment. >> >> > [...] > > [4]

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-05-09 Thread Lucio De Re
Kudos to you, Dave, in spades! Could you please contact me off-list with a very brief summary of the state of shiny for Plan 9 from your advantage point? It deserves a full conference, but that isn't going to happen, is it? Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-05-07 Thread Dave MacFarlane
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 9:12 PM Sean Hinchee wrote: > As a footnote, there's a decent git client written in Go that works > alright on plan9 [4], but it's slow and memory intensive at the > moment. > > [...] [4] https://github.com/driusan/dgit This (and the fact that the speed of Go on

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-04-01 Thread Charles Forsyth
I moved all my hg repositories to git some time ago On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:39 PM Dave MacFarlane wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:46 AM wrote: > > > If anyone has further thoughts, anything they want added, or any lists > > > or indices of works they want archived/mirrored, I would love

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-31 Thread Fazlul Shahriar
It's worth highlighting the fact that Bitbucket will be deleting *all* hg repositories on May 30, 2020. Thankfully, the Software Heritage ( https://www.softwareheritage.org/) seems to be doing a great job of archiving all open source work. For example:

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-31 Thread Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:38 PM Dave MacFarlane wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:46 AM wrote: > > > If anyone has further thoughts, anything they want added, or any lists > > > or indices of works they want archived/mirrored, I would love to see > > > these posted. > > > > I think the lede

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-31 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Thanks for doing this. Please add me (jxy) to the GitHub org. I plan to maintain drawterm-metal so long as I'm using it. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T303744e1ec6d2108-Mb35e89ba494b39cee28abc84 Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-31 Thread Dave MacFarlane
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:46 AM wrote: > > If anyone has further thoughts, anything they want added, or any lists > > or indices of works they want archived/mirrored, I would love to see > > these posted. > > I think the lede got buried here, and people went of discussing git > clients. > >

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-31 Thread Lucio De Re
On 3/31/20, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > I think the lede got buried here, and people went of discussing git > clients. > Entirely your fault: that's the thanks you get for doing such a good job. Lucio. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-31 Thread ori
> If anyone has further thoughts, anything they want added, or any lists > or indices of works they want archived/mirrored, I would love to see > these posted. I think the lede got buried here, and people went of discussing git clients. Given that the aptly-named bitbucket is deleting mercurial

Re: [9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-30 Thread Fazlul Shahriar
> > As a footnote, there's a decent git client written in Go that works > alright on plan9 [4], but it's slow and memory intensive at the > moment. go-git also works well. I recently wrote a wrapper around it for plan9: https://github.com/fhs/gig --

[9fans] Software preservation in the post-hg era

2020-03-30 Thread Sean Hinchee
In the wake of Bitbucket removing hg (Mercurial) support [1], I feel it's topical to bring up software preservation for the plan9 community. A lot of community contributed software has been put up on Bitbucket or other hg hosts over time (RIP Google Code), but no consolidated effort, to my