Re: german translation bug

2013-12-25 Thread Drew Northup
On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 25. Dezember 2013, 17:14:31 schrieb Drew Northup: >> Git does not use KDE's language packs. > > Sorry, I meant ubuntu. I believe I heard before that they tend to replace > upstream translatio

Re: git fuse

2013-12-25 Thread Drew Northup
would be worth considering if your questions are Git questions or web-app design questions. The latter should be taken elsewhere.) -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites

Re: german translation bug

2013-12-25 Thread Drew Northup
%3a13.10+20131012_all.deb What does dpkg report for info about the installed git package (if you are using the packaged version)? -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-09-04 Thread Drew Northup
for dealing with some of the advanced usage explanations it can be argued that the "staging area" metaphor (it implies _completed_ bundles ready to package into commits and ship--I envision shipping trailers being filled with _immutable_ boxes and attached to truck

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-09-03 Thread Drew Northup
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> Felipe Contreras writes: >>> >>>> It has been discussed many times in the past

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-09-03 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > Drew Northup napisał: >>I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the >>documentation clearer and more succinct. The reality is that a user >>needs to build a model in their mind of what they are doin

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-08-29 Thread Drew Northup
the object store with the content and tree objects. Sometimes we create tag objects to record something special about commits, trees, and content blobs. That's the real model (with some rough edges). Explaining what that has to do with distributed version control is the hard part. -- -Drew Nort

[PATCH V2] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-24 Thread Drew Northup
g log --no-color --pretty=raw --parents --parents -- fatal: bad revision 'log' This fix works by properly and fully initializing "buf" before each use. github issue # 167 Helped-by: Jonas Fonseca Signed-off-by: Drew Northup --- This should apply cleanly to the tig public master

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-24 Thread Drew Northup
On 07/19/2013 12:07 AM, Jonas Fonseca wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Drew Northup wrote: Somehow this patch breaks the main view to not open the correct commit in diff view when is pressed. Back to the debugger... Does this (possibly white-space damaged) patch work for you? It

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Drew Northup wrote: >> >> Somehow this patch breaks the main view to not open the correct commit in >> diff view when is pressed. Back to the debugger... > > Does this (possibly

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-18 Thread Drew Northup
Somehow this patch breaks the main view to not open the correct commit in diff view when is pressed. Back to the debugger... On 07/18/2013 12:51 AM, Drew Northup wrote: Since c7d67ab running "tig" with no options has failed with the error "tig: No revisions match the given a

Re: [PATCH 1/2] git_mkstemps: correctly test return value of open()

2013-07-18 Thread Drew Northup
if (fd>= 0) return fd; /* * Fatal error (EPERM, ENOSPC etc). -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsB

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Implement mkstemps() work-around for platforms lacking it

2013-07-17 Thread Drew Northup
license. On 07/09/2013 11:33 AM, Drew Northup wrote: The function mkstemps() isn't available in all libc implementations. In glibc it first became available in 2.11, so platforms such as RHEL 5& Slackware 13 lack it. This is likely true of many non-LINUX platforms as well. This fixes brea

[PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-17 Thread Drew Northup
g log --no-color --pretty=raw --parents --parents -- fatal: bad revision 'log' This fix works by teaching tig that when it is supplied with a blank field in the source argument buffer that it should skip over that field and continue instead of copying the previous field value into the destinati

[PATCH] TIG: Implement mkstemps() work-around for platforms lacking it

2013-07-09 Thread Drew Northup
eate temporary file with name as suffix." Signed-off-by: Drew Northup --- This work-around is taken from Git and was inspired by code in libiberty. It is presumed that this isn't a problem due to compatible license terms. A (virtually identical) version of this available in https://g

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2013, #01; Sun, 2)

2013-06-03 Thread Drew Northup
ody who is interested in > tying its loose ends. I'd like to have a closer look at these. It may be a week however as there's some serious in-house chaos going on right now. (Finally starting to settle after about 2 months...) -- -Drew Northup -

Re: Typo in Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt

2013-06-03 Thread Drew Northup
) as noted in the documentation. Yes, it's a small change, but let Junio decide what to just squash in. It is much faster for him to just pull in the commit than to find what you've noted by hand and fix it in most cases. -- -Drew Northup --

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

2013-04-17 Thread Drew Northup
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Drew Northup wrote: > >> This is unobtrusive yet to the point. > > I agree with the spirit. > > [...] >> --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.con

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
Forgot the S-O-B... On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Drew Northup wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Jakub Narębski wrote: > >> Drew: gitweb(1) or gitweb.conf(5) solution is more involved, so >> perhaps something like that? > > > That or: (or both I suppose..

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
. Locations of the common system-wide configuration file, the fallback system-wide configuration file and the per-instance configuration file -- 1.8.0 -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pes

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Drew Northup writes: > >>> + Note that the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM system-wide configuration file is >>> + only used for instances that lack per-instance configuration file. >>> + You can use GITWEB

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
rical behavior (and backward compatibility) > has place (if any) in manpages, not gitweb/INSTALL. > -- > Jakub Narębski Let us then agree that it should be mentioned somewhere in gitweb.conf.txt then (as it currently is not). -- -Drew Northup -

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15)

2013-04-15 Thread Drew Northup
ext is easier on the eyes it fails to note why we don't just dump our idiosyncratic way of doing things and just make the system-wide defaults act individually. This information is useful to system administrators, as it explains what is act

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM

2013-04-15 Thread Drew Northup
t; part of the explanation entirely we can expect to end up in exactly the situation that I complained about to begin with. (Or we could just do this the way everybody else does, with partial overrides being the common case, starting at 2.x and no longer hav

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-19 Thread Drew Northup
ll give a clear signal of the prominence of those segments of code versus others elsewhere in the "git stat" flow path. That information will tell us more clearly what, if anything, it is worth keeping a cache of and what form that cache should take. -- -Drew Northup --

Re: feature request

2013-02-18 Thread Drew Northup
sing is (something written in python if I'm not mistaken), but @$dayjob we've managed to authenticate to Google Apps using SAML 1.1 & SAML2 wrappers "living" in both CAS and Shibboleth. SAML is a standard and is supported (in whole or in part) by a lot of syst

Re: [PATCH v2 02/15] user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse

2013-02-18 Thread Drew Northup
the description ofthe receive.denyCurrentBranch option > +in linkgit:git-config[1] for details. This looks safe to me, with the minor nit that "ofthe" ("of the") isn't one word. -- -Drew Northup -- "As o

Re: Anybody know a website with up-to-date git documentation?

2013-02-17 Thread Drew Northup
2011 + Autogenerated HTML docs for v1.7.7-rc0-72-g4b5ea n1xim@atom:~/tmp/git_dev/git$ git log refs/remotes/origin/man commit e193e4189407968b3c46992e3eac60d38424286e Author: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed Aug 31 00:49:25 2011 + Autogenerated manpages for v1.7.7-rc0-72-g4b5ea I

Re: Lockless Refs? (Was [PATCH] refs: do not use cached refs in repack_without_ref)

2013-01-21 Thread Drew Northup
depends largely upon the filesystem and VFS api in use. It is not unheard of that a delete operation actually consist of moving the reference to the item's own allocation marker into a "trashcan" to be cleaned up after later. In other words, I'

Re: Auto-repo-repair

2012-11-20 Thread Drew Northup
4) that requires the most user interaction. I could see building up a shell script that does all but (4) nearly automatically. None of this requires modifying Git itself. -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?&q

Re: Auto-repo-repair

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
;s solution doesn't suffer from this recursivity problem. -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &quo

Re: git-reset man page

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
ths_ was acceptable (which isn't a pathspec, as it isn't a search expression) and other places where _only_ a single path was acceptable. Should that fail to be the case then there would be a good argument for changing the affected instances of "" to "" in the documentat

Re: Auto-repo-repair

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
ory, but it's not automated). > > can we introduce a new or extend existing transports to support that ? How would the broken repository be sure of what it is missing to request it from the other side? -- -Drew Northup -- "As

Re: Motd message on git cloning

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
see this being an improvement for enough users to justify the extra noise. Granted, I am not the definitive word on much of anything around here, but I cannot see this making much sense in the big picture of things. If you wanted to make this change to something more like Googl

Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] push: update remote tags only with force

2012-11-13 Thread Drew Northup
exercise left to the reviewer to find that you're talking about this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/208354 Cheers. -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pesca

Re: [BUG] gitweb: XSS vulnerability of RSS feed

2012-11-13 Thread Drew Northup
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:55:46PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:28 PM, glpk xypron wrote: >> > Gitweb can be used to generate an RSS feed. >> > >> > Arbitrary tags can be in

Re: splitting off shell test framework

2012-11-12 Thread Drew Northup
an idea. Interesting, or terrible? :) Done at least once already: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201591 -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS News

Re: [OT] How to get the discussion details via notes

2012-10-31 Thread Drew Northup
ion. > > Care to explain? If I have an email thread I'd like to store alongside a commit I'll put that into a note, but I usually don't push that kind of thing out to a remote repo. Does that help? -- -Drew Northup ---

Re: [PATCH] git-push: update remote tags only with force

2012-10-31 Thread Drew Northup
ted to reconstruct CC list of discussion] -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git"

Re: git push tags

2012-10-29 Thread Drew Northup
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:21:52AM -0400, Drew Northup wrote: >> > I would have expected git to at least complain about updating an >> > annotated tag with another annotated tag. But it actually uses the same >> >

Re: git push tags

2012-10-29 Thread Drew Northup
d a patch set including the snippet that Kacper posted earlier (1) in response to my comment about not being sure how complicated all of this would be or not? [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/208473 -- -Drew Northup

Re: git push tags

2012-10-28 Thread Drew Northup
here's somebody better than me to take this over I'd be game for that too...) -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscrib

Re: git push tags

2012-10-26 Thread Drew Northup
27;s patch, some manpage changes, a test. Angelo, may we use your original mail as the source for the cover page? -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num.

Re: git push tags

2012-10-26 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Kacper Kornet wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:16:00PM -0400, Drew Northup wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Angelo Borsotti >> wrote: >> > Are remote repositories less protected than the local ones? I >> > thin

Re: git push tags

2012-10-26 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Chris Rorvick wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Drew Northup wrote: >> (As for deleting the current branch, you can't really do that on a >> proper bare remote anyway as there is no such thing as a "current >> branch" i

Re: git push tags

2012-10-26 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Angelo Borsotti wrote: > Hi Drew, > --Adding for clarity: On Thurs, Oct 25, 2012 at 17:16 EDT, Drew Northup wrote: >> >> Changing the tag in the local repository is a tag modification >> operation. Pushing that change to a remote rep

Re: git push tags

2012-10-25 Thread Drew Northup
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Angelo Borsotti wrote: ---At 13:19 on Oct 25, 2012, Drew Northup wrote: [added for clarity] >>Tags have many uses. Some of those uses are harmed when tags change > and some aren't. That's a philosophical argument > > I agree, but in this c

Re: git push tags

2012-10-25 Thread Drew Northup
es are harmed when tags change and some aren't. That's a philosophical argument and Git is a computer program, not a philosopher. It is not the job of the machine to prevent the user from shooting himself in the foot when he clearly expressed an interest in doing so. -- -Drew Northup ---

Re: Where should git-prompt.sh be installed?

2012-10-24 Thread Drew Northup
and ~/.git-prompt.sh. > > Proposal: > > 1) /usr/lib/git-core/git-sh-prompt > 2) git-sh-prompt(1) > > Sensible? Does the LSB provide any guidance? If not, or if such guidance isn't helpful, I say that looks reasonable. What I'd like to know is why we are saying &

Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-21 Thread Drew Northup
them as zip archives and diff what's inside of them. The text in particular is stored as XML. -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe fr

Re: git fetch documentation problem or bug

2012-10-21 Thread Drew Northup
etch $from $branch:" to > explicitly decline copying. How are we supposed to remember those are different? "git fetch $from $branch..." VS "git fetch $from $branch:" I strongly prefer EXPLICITLY setting tracking than

Re: looking for suggestions for managing a tree of server configs

2012-10-21 Thread Drew Northup
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:34 PM, wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Drew Northup wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:57 AM, wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2012, Junio C Hamano wrote: >>>> da...@lang.hm writes: >>>>> >>>>> today I h

Re: looking for suggestions for managing a tree of server configs

2012-10-20 Thread Drew Northup
7;what is', the result of changes from all the tools. > > The systems are all built with a standard image, but the automation tools I > do have tend to push identical files out to many of the systems (or files > identical except for a couple of lines) David, Is there any particular

Re: rm and add, but not rename, of identical files

2012-10-11 Thread Drew Northup
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:47 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Drew Northup writes: > > > # Untracked files: > > # (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed) > > # > > # rc.d/rc2.d/S08iptables > > # rc.d/rc3.d/S08iptables >

Re: A basic question

2012-10-10 Thread Drew Northup
undergoing testing. > > Thanks, > > Jim Vahl Jim, Have you looked at http://git-scm.com/book yet? It sounds to me like you have some misconceptions about how Git works. (If so, did it leave you more or less confused?) -- -Drew Northup

rm and add, but not rename, of identical files

2012-10-10 Thread Drew Northup
I use etckeeper on some of my systems, backed by Git. On a system still using a SYSV style init I recently modified my iptables settings, changing which runlevels would stop/start the firewall. [root@drew-northup ~]# etckeeper vcs status # On branch master # Changes not staged for commit

Re: Git diff-file bug?

2012-10-03 Thread Drew Northup
of these commands (in your case, gitk) knows that any change in the >> information returned by lstat(2) on the paths in the working tree >> files since that call indicate real changes to the files. >> >> "git status" internally runs an equivalent of "--refresh&

Re: [PATCH] Retry HTTP requests on SSL connect failures

2012-10-02 Thread Drew Northup
alanced setup then applying TCP/IP like back-off semantics is the right way to go. The only reason the network stack isn't doing it for you is because the load balancers wait for the SSL/TLS start before dumping the "excess" (exceeding of license) SSL connections. -- -Drew Northup -

Re: [PATCH] Retry HTTP requests on SSL connect failures

2012-10-01 Thread Drew Northup
refore, I would not attempt to argue that the results that apply to their systems would apply much of anywhere else. (They have done presentations publicly, which are archived on the 'net, about how they do things.) -- -Drew Northup --

Re: DWIM .git repository discovery

2012-09-27 Thread Drew Northup
e. "DWIM" is a very fraught concept because you are assuming that everybody is going to want to do things exactly (or nearly so) the way you do. >> I think that this is a road to insanity; anybody who thinks along >> this line is already on the other side of the line, I would

[PATCH] Documentation/git-blame.txt: --follow is a NO-OP

2012-09-18 Thread Drew Northup
Make note that while the --follow option is accepted by git blame it does nothing. Signed-off-by: Drew Northup --- Documentation/git-blame.txt | 5 - 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt index 7ee9236..7465bd8

Re: Gitweb characters not encoded/decoded properly

2012-09-18 Thread Drew Northup
rectly? > Example screenshot: > http://i.imgur.com/06skV.png Joseph, What character set is that supposed to be in? In addition, if it is UTF-(something), what code segment are you using? -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable

Re: CRLF, LF ... CR ?

2012-09-13 Thread Drew Northup
ly disabled in this case. (Given that you seem to be working on a Mac I suspect that "disabled" is likely the default setting for that configuration item.) -- -Drew Northup "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pes

Re: [PATCH 66/66] Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action

2012-08-22 Thread Drew Northup
think of off hand is that the documentation is describing what the program options do to the user (a different "audience")--which explains why the text wasn't in imperative form to begin with. -- -Drew Northup -- &quo

Re: FW: Git

2012-08-19 Thread Drew Northup
Can you tell me about this or reference a site or page that > discusses it? Jean, If you take a close look at the git.git repo itself you will notice that several different (and at times totally non-overlapping) branches are available. The same option is available for other projects as

Re: Installing GIT Server

2012-08-10 Thread Drew Northup
SH or file share? > > Can someone help me with this? Raj, You may find that using Gitolite [1] (and following the documentation that comes with it) to be a good solution to what you are trying to do. (1): https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/ -- -Drew Northup --

Re: Sync production with Git

2012-08-08 Thread Drew Northup
rior the divergence and pull the changes onto the production system--re-applying those changes you discovered in the "git diff -b -w" step on a developer's system first, in a temporary branch, before doing the reset, merging back to development, etc. So, in conclusion, this is a sit

Android Replies to Git List getting rejected

2012-08-07 Thread Drew Northup
ults). (I am writing this from the webmail interface in the hopes that it goes through.) Am I the ONLY ONE seeing this? -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num.

Re: PROPFIND 405 with git-http-backend and Smart HTTP

2012-08-05 Thread Drew Northup
o things outside of the base Document Root all sorts of interesting possibilities for failure become available. I am pretty sure that this isn't a Git problem, it is a CGI hosting / configuration problem. An Apache-centric list may be able to help you be

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-29 Thread Drew Northup
ying tens of thousands of them. Most of us can't afford that. (Yes, there is an overhead to building packages. I've done it enough times to know about that quite intimately.) Packages and package management are great for system softwar

Re: ninja build

2012-07-25 Thread Drew Northup
e use of the community's time? So many platforms include standard varieties of MAKE and it is well supported by the autotools framework. Tons of people know how to maintain it. So it may sound cool, but that alone does not make it a good idea.

Re: [PATCH] Fix Q-encoded multi-octet-char split in email.

2012-07-25 Thread Drew Northup
g I was trapped in a DOS prompt was bad. Dreaming in patches? OUCH! -- -Drew Northup -- "As opposed to vegetable or mineral error?" -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line