Re: Find the starting point of a local branch

2012-12-24 Thread Kevin
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Woody Wu narkewo...@gmail.com wrote: But thanks anyway, I see you guys's discussions and it's a little hard to understand to me at the moment. Currently, I still have to use gitk with narrowed outputs. Each commit refers to it's parent. If you take a branch,

Re: Find the starting point of a local branch

2012-12-24 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:28:45PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: You want to know what commit was I at when I typed `git branch mybranch`? The problem is git doesn't record this information and doesn't have the slightest

Re: Find the starting point of a local branch

2012-12-24 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclo...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Tomas Carnecky tomas.carne...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we should store this information. reflog is a perfect place for this, I think. If

GIT get corrupted on lustre

2012-12-24 Thread Eric Chamberland
Hi, we are using git since may and all is working fine for all of us (almost 20 people) on our workstations. However, when we clone our repositories to the cluster, only and only there we are having many problems similiar to this post:

Re: GIT get corrupted on lustre

2012-12-24 Thread Andreas Schwab
Eric Chamberland eric.chamberl...@giref.ulaval.ca writes: #1) However, how can we *test* the filesystem (lustre) compatibility with git? (Is there a unit test we can run?) Have you considered running git's testsuite? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint =

Re: GIT get corrupted on lustre

2012-12-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 12-12-24 09:08 AM, Eric Chamberland wrote: Hi, Hi, Doing a git clone always work fine, but when we git pull or git gc or git fsck, often (1/5) the local repository get corrupted. Have you tried adding a -q to the git command line to quiet down git's feedback messages? I discovered other

Re: [PATCH] Python scripts audited for minimum compatible version and checks added.

2012-12-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Pete Wyckoff p...@padd.com: e...@thyrsus.com wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:13 -0500: diff --git a/git-p4.py b/git-p4.py index 551aec9..ec060b4 100755 --- a/git-p4.py +++ b/git-p4.py @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ import optparse, sys, os, marshal, subprocess, shelve import tempfile, getopt,

Re: Find the starting point of a local branch

2012-12-24 Thread Jeff King
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 06:16:05PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: The reason that git does not bother storing where did I start this branch is that it is usually not useful. The right question is usually what is the merge base. There are exceptions, of course (e.g., if you are asking

Re: Find the starting point of a local branch

2012-12-24 Thread Martin von Zweigbergk
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Woody Wu narkewo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:09:58PM -0500, Seth Robertson wrote: In message 20121224035825.GA17203@zuhnb712, Woody Wu writes: How can I find out what's the staring reference point (a commit number or tag name) of a

Re: Find the starting point of a local branch

2012-12-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclo...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy pclo...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Tomas Carnecky tomas.carne...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we should store this information.

Re: [PATCH] Python scripts audited for minimum compatible version and checks added.

2012-12-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Eric S. Raymond e...@thyrsus.com writes: Pete Wyckoff p...@padd.com: e...@thyrsus.com wrote on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:13 -0500: ... Many of your changes have these three problems; I just picked on my favorite one. Should I resubmit, or do you intend to fix these while merging? I'd

Re: [PATCH] Python scripts audited for minimum compatible version and checks added.

2012-12-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com: Should I resubmit, or do you intend to fix these while merging? I'd appreciate a re-roll, perhaps in a few days after the dust settles. You'll get it. It will take a little longer than it otherwise might have because I'm in the middle of straightening out

[LHF] making t5000 tar xf tests more lenient

2012-12-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
I've been running testsuite on a few platforms that are unfamiliar to me, and was bitten by BSD implementation of tar that do not grok the extended pax headers. I've already fixed one in t9502 [*1*] where we produce a tarball with git archive and then try to validate it with the platform

Re: Find the starting point of a local branch

2012-12-24 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: I looked briefly at reflog before writing my previous mail and noticed that when I create a new branch (usually using git checkout -b branch ref) it does not record the base commit. Hmph. Perhaps you are referring to

[PATCH] t9200: let cvs init create the test repository

2012-12-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Some platforms (e.g. NetBSD 6.3) seem to configure their CVS to allow cvs init in an existing directory only to members of cvsadmin. Instead of preparing an empty directory and then running cvs init on it, let's run cvs init and let it create the necessary directory. Signed-off-by: Junio C

Re: GIT get corrupted on lustre

2012-12-24 Thread Greg Troxel
we are using git since may and all is working fine for all of us (almost 20 people) on our workstations. However, when we clone our repositories to the cluster, only and only there we are having many problems similiar to this post: What filesystem tests have you run on lustre? I would

Re: [PATCH] t9200: let cvs init create the test repository

2012-12-24 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com writes: Some platforms (e.g. NetBSD 6.3) seem to configure their CVS to s/6.3/6.0/; sorry for the noise. -- 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