On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Felipe Contreras :
>> Most of those old projects have a linear history,
>
> INTERCAL didn't. There were two branches for platform ports.
Fine:
tag v0.1 gst-av-0.1.tar "Release 0.1"
tag v0.2 gst-av-0.2.tar "Release 0.2"
checkout port1
tag
Felipe Contreras :
> Most of those old projects have a linear history,
INTERCAL didn't. There were two branches for platform ports.
> But different commit/author and respective dates, and merges? Sounds
> like overkill.
I felt it was important that the metadata format be able to specify
git's e
Felipe Contreras :
> > The main objective of the logfile design is to make hand-crafting
> > these easy.
>
> Here's another version with YAML:
Clever.
Now I have to decide if I should allow my aesthetic dislike of YAML to
prevail despite the fact that it's pretty well suited to this job. Ther
Felipe Contreras :
> I believe that log file is much more human readable. Yet I still fail
> to see why would anybody want so much detail only to import tarballs.
The first time I needed such a tool (and I really should have built it then)
was during the events I wrote up in 2010 the INTERCAL Rec
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> ---
> commit 1
> directory foo-1.1
>
> Release 1.1 of project foo
> .
> commit 2
> directory foo-1.2
>
> ..This is an example of a byte-stuffed line.
>
> Release 1.2 of project foo
> .
> commit 3
> director
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Felipe Contreras :
>> Might be easier to just call 'git ls-files --with-three foo', but I
>> don't see the point of those calls:
>
> Ah, much is now explained. You were looking at an old version. I had
> in fact already fixed the subdire
Felipe Contreras :
> Might be easier to just call 'git ls-files --with-three foo', but I
> don't see the point of those calls:
Ah, much is now explained. You were looking at an old version. I had
in fact already fixed the subdirectories bug (I've updated my
regression test to check) and have ful
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Felipe Contreras :
>> 1) I tried it, and it doesn't seem to import (pack?) are repository
>> with sub-directories in it
>
> I'll make sure my regression test checks this case. The options to git
> ls-files are a bit confusing and it's pos
Felipe Contreras :
> 1) I tried it, and it doesn't seem to import (pack?) are repository
> with sub-directories in it
I'll make sure my regression test checks this case. The options to git
ls-files are a bit confusing and it's possible my invocation of it
needs to change.
> 2) Using 'git fast-
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Some days ago I reported that I was attempting to write a tool that could
> (a) take a git repo and unpack it into a tarball sequence plus a metadata log,
> (b) reverse that operation, packing a tarball and log sequence into a repo.
>
> Th
"Eric S. Raymond" writes:
> if commitcount > 1:
> do_or_die("rm `git ls-tree --name-only HEAD`")
This will fail on file names containing whitespace or glob meta
characters. Better use "git rm -qr ." here. You don't have to care
about the index since
Max Horn :
> > I'm still looking for a better name for it and would welcome suggestions.
>
> Isn't "gitar" the kind of natural choice? ;) At least for a stand-alone tool,
> not for a git subcommand.
I just renamed it git-weave. I keep talking about tarballs because I keep
thinking about using i
On 15.11.2012, at 22:28, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Some days ago I reported that I was attempting to write a tool that could
> (a) take a git repo and unpack it into a tarball sequence plus a metadata log,
> (b) reverse that operation, packing a tarball and log sequence into a repo.
Ah, I could h
Some days ago I reported that I was attempting to write a tool that could
(a) take a git repo and unpack it into a tarball sequence plus a metadata log,
(b) reverse that operation, packing a tarball and log sequence into a repo.
Thanks in part to advice by Andreas Schwab and in part to looking at
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