Re: Git: How to keep multiple bare repos in sync?

2015-06-02 Thread David Lang
ast same building) repo and send a pull request to whoever is coordinating the changes, and they then pull all the different changes and deal with reconciling conflicts between them. David Lang -- chenxitwo not remote sync. We have three teams to participate in the same project,

RE: Repository Code Security (Plan Text)

2015-06-24 Thread David Lang
ny other sensitive data in your company. What measures do you have in place to keep them from taking sensitive Word Docs or spreadsheets when they leave? do the same thing to deal with their access to code. David Lang Thanks, Brian -Original Message- On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:18:00

RE: Repository Code Security (Plan Text)

2015-06-24 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, BGaudreault Brian wrote: Hi David Lang, I'm sorry, but I'm confused by your first two responses. Am I not contacting Git when I e-mail this e-mail address? You sound like you don't know exactly how GitHub works. Should I be contacting someone else for

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-18 Thread David Lang
colliding with your safe file, it's that if you are manipulating the contents of both files, you can create two that collide. This won't hurt a Git repository unless one of these manipulated files is able to be introduced as a legitimate part of the repo you are dealing with. Davi

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-19 Thread David Lang
A-256-based submodules. they have different upstreams, what if the upstream of the submodule has upgraded and is using signed commits of the sha-256 but the upstream of the parent hasn't and is using signed commits of sha1? David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-19 Thread David Lang
, how would you define this cutoff point? David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Git and SHA-1 security (again)

2016-07-19 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:34 PM, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: But we can recreate SHA-1 from the same content and verify GPG, right? I know it's super expe

Re: [OT] USENIX paper on Git

2016-08-03 Thread David Lang
ot;cool-internet-name" but how can I tell if this is really Joe Blow the developer? and if it is, I still have no way of knowing if he's working for the NSA or not. The lack of meaningful termination of the signatures to the real world is why so few people bother to check package si

Re: feature request

2016-10-27 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, John Rood wrote: Thanks, I think changing the default for windows is a good idea. notepad doesn't work well with unix line endings, wordpad handles the files much more cleanly. David Lang

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-16 Thread David Lang
when storing, diff-ing and merging these files? you should be able to use clean/smudge to have git store the files uncompressed, which will help a lot. I think there's a way to tell it to do a xml aware diff/patch, but I don't remember how. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-16 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: On Aug 16 2016, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I would like to store Simulink models in a Git repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the binary format happens to be a zipfile containing nicely

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-17 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: On Aug 16 2016, David Lang wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Nikolaus Rath wrote: I would like to store Simulink models in a Git repository. Unfortunately, the file format is binary. But luckily, the binary format happens to be a zipfile containing nicely

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-18 Thread David Lang
s... can you point at an example of how to do this? when I went looking about a year ago to deal with single-line json data I wasn't able to find anything good. I ended up using clean/smudge to pretty-print the json so it was easier to handle. David Lang

Re: Working with zip files

2016-08-18 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote: On 18 August 2016 at 18:56, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jakub Narębski wrote: JN>> You can find rezip clean/smudge filter (originally intended for JN>> OpenDocument Format (ODF), that is OpenOffice.org etc.) that stores JN&

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-06 Thread David Lang
recently, this looks like a very reasonable statement to me. But I am not a lawyer. I will also say that I think it would be very reasonable for projects to not accept code from someone who doesn't give them any way to contact them later in case there is a question about authorship or lic

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-07 Thread David Lang
lace, they want to keep it internally and use it. David Lang There is simply no justification for publishing against the explicit will of the subject, except for the rare circumstances where there are overriding legitimate grounds for doing so. I hardly see those for the average author entry i

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-07 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Peter Backes wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 03:38:49PM -0700, David Lang wrote: Again: The GDPR certainly allows you to keep a proof of copyright privately if you have it. However, it does not allow you to keep publishing it if someone exercises his right to be forgotten

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-08 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Peter Backes wrote: you are the one arguing that the GDPR prohibits Git from storing and revealing this license granting data, not me. It prohibits publishing, and only after a request to be forgotten. It does not prohibit storing your private copy. Wrong, if you have to

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-08 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, Peter Backes wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 12:42:54AM -0700, David Lang wrote: Wrong, if you have to delete info, you are not allowed to keep a private copy. Yes you are allowed. See Art. 17 (3) lit e GDPR. There is _nothing_ in the GDPR about publishing information

Re: Hash algorithm analysis

2018-06-11 Thread David Lang
re does it really make a human visible difference? David Lang

Re: GDPR compliance best practices?

2018-06-12 Thread David Lang
a from the Git commit history once it has been recorded. End Quote I'll point out that not only did the Github lawyers need to sign off on this stance, but the Microsoft lawyers would have looked at it as well as part of their purchase of Github. David Lang

Re: [PATCH v1 00/25] RFC: structured logging

2018-07-13 Thread David Lang
Please make an option for git to write these logs to syslog, not just a local file. Every modern syslog daemon has lots of tools to be able to deal with json messages well. David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
panic, but it is one more push to make the changes to support something else. David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
rve either repository to targeted users. This will require attackers to compute their own collision. David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
ew one (breaking into github or assuming that github is putting both files into the same repo, both of which are fairly unlikely) David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-23 Thread David Lang
shattered-1.pdf 5bd9d8cabc46041579a311230539b8d1 shattered-2.pdf David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
one. as the saying goes "in computer science the interesting numbers are 0, 1, and many", does it really simplify things much to support 2 hashes vs supporting more so that this issue doesn't have to be revisited? (other than selecting new hashes over time) David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
t's call this flag "newhash" for lack of a better term. so how do you interact with someone who only expects the old commit instead of the commit-v2? David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
le. There's a LOT of pain during that process. Is that really the best way to go? David Lang

Re: SHA1 collisions found

2017-02-24 Thread David Lang
here there may be holdouts for whatever reason) David Lang

Re: RFC: Another proposed hash function transition plan

2017-03-05 Thread David Lang
es recording the commits is going to be in the millions, whiel the list of hashes of individual files for all those commits is going to be substantially larger. David Lang

Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
rigger may work, but we need it to work on Linux, Windows and OSX) Any thoughts on a sane way to handle this situation? David Lang

Re: Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 3:29 PM, David Lang wrote: for an embedded project built inside the Arduino IDE, (alternate firmware for a home automation project) there is a need to set a number of parameters that we really don't want in the

Re: Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
s can include config.h without having to know anything about config.h.sample's existence. Did I miss something? There is no makefile with the arduino IDE/build system :-( David Lang

Re: Is there a way to have a local version of a header file?

2017-03-18 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang writes: Ship a config.h.sample file, have a Makefile rule that is forced to run before any compilation happens that checks if config.h exists and then created it if missing by copying config.h.sample over, and then all other source files

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread David Lang
will affect the repository in the same way that binaries do. Not quite the same way that binaries do, because text files compress well. but close. David Lang

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread David Lang
e file (whereas this is not the case with binary files, hence the need for LFS). well, it wouldn't be 4G because text compresses well, but if the file changes drastically from version to version (say a quarterly report), the diff won't help. David Lang

hot to get file sizes in git log output

2017-10-20 Thread David Lang
I'm needing to scan through git history looking for the file sizes (looking for when a particular file shrunk drastically) I'm not seeing an option in git log or git whatchanged that gives me the file size, am I overlooking something? David Lang

Re: hot to get file sizes in git log output

2017-10-20 Thread David Lang
red tabs to a dozen or so will be very obvious). But I don't have any specific line I can look at, the lines that are there change pretty regularly, and/or would not have changed at the transition. git whatchanged shows commits like: commit fb7e54c12ddc7c87c4862806d583f5c6abf3e7

Re: hot to get file sizes in git log output

2017-10-20 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, David Lang wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2017, Eric Sunshine wrote: I'm not exactly sure what you mean by size, but if you want to show how many lines were added and removed by a given commit for each file, you can use the "--stat" option to produce a diffstat. Th

Re: question about: Facebook makes Mercurial faster than Git

2014-03-10 Thread David Lang
this status change, everything else is minor. David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: [RFC/WIP] Pluggable reference backends

2014-03-10 Thread David Lang
fs and you compile into a different directory thatn your source, you may be able to detect that things didn't change by the fact that the filesystem didn't have to do a rewrite of the parent node. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in

Re: question about: Facebook makes Mercurial faster than Git

2014-03-10 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Ondřej Bílka wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:13:45AM -0700, David Lang wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Dennis Luehring wrote: according to these blog posts http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/facebook-scaling-hg https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling

Re: Can I fetch an arbitrary commit by sha1?

2014-10-06 Thread David Lang
gn tags, they should be very stable. You do have the namespace issue, but unless you have a lot of different people tagging in the same repository, that shouldn't be an issue (and if you do, can't you use the person's name as part of the tag?) David Lang -- To unsubscribe from th

Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

2014-04-22 Thread David Lang
ple complain about regarding learning git, the fact that the commands are words instead of cryptic 2 letter abberviations is not one of them. The complaints tend to be far more about how there are inconsistancies between commands, or they don't understand what's happening. Adding a new

Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

2014-04-23 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Felipe Contreras wrote: David Lang wrote: agreed, of all the things that people complain about regarding learning git, the fact that the commands are words instead of cryptic 2 letter abberviations is not one of them. It is when they start to use Git seriously and type

Re: What is missing from Git v2.0

2014-04-24 Thread David Lang
problem Calm down and stop accusing everyone of sticking their heads in the ground David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-29 Thread David Lang
ir editor. If there is a commit message, don't touch it. Then people can use whatever they want (including environment variables) as part of their messages. David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Recording the current branch on each commit?

2014-04-29 Thread David Lang
e respository. You can include a hook, and then have someone run it, and after that it will be installed locally and run after every pull (and can therefor replace itself), but it requires that they run it manually the first time. David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

2014-05-02 Thread David Lang
agreement on the result" paralysis) doesn't seem right. It's just when the merge-left/merge-right/rebase-left/rebase-right decision kicks in that prescribing one git-pull behavior looks like a recipe for trouble. confusion at least. It's not fatal confusion, people have b

Re: Pull is Mostly Evil

2014-05-03 Thread David Lang
trying to improve Git. Thanks. No need to expand on the welcoming atmosphere here. note that this is one person taking the "I don't see any commits from you so your opinion doesn't count" attitude. the vast majority of people here do not take that attitude. David Lang

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2014, #09; Tue, 29)

2014-05-08 Thread David Lang
would be a possibility, but they are more like a hack. Well, if git.git can't use them, then how can anyone else be expected to. I haven't been paying close attention for a while, what would have to be done to make submodules "an integral part of Git"? David Lang -- To u

Re: Is there any efficient way to track history of a piece of code?

2014-05-08 Thread David Lang
could do something along the lines of git filterbranch that could create a clone of a repo with all commits cleaned up. David Lang -- 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 http://

Re: Watchman support for git

2014-05-09 Thread David Lang
resented for normal disks that show an improvement, but with even stock git being faster than improved mercurial. David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Watchman support for git

2014-05-09 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 9 May 2014, David Turner wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 00:08 -0700, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2014, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: On 03.05.2014 05:40, Felipe Contreras wrote: That's very interesting. Do you get similar improvements when doing something similar in Mer

Re: Watchman support for git

2014-05-09 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 9 May 2014, David Turner wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 11:08 -0700, David Lang wrote: On Fri, 9 May 2014, David Turner wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 00:08 -0700, David Lang wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2014, Sebastian Schuberth wrote: On 03.05.2014 05:40, Felipe Contreras wrote: That&#

Re: Git chokes on large file

2014-05-28 Thread David Lang
here are warts that show up in the implementation when you use individual files >4GB such files tend to also not diff well. git-annex and other offshoots hae methods boled on that handle such large files better than core git does. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: Git chokes on large file

2014-05-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Dale R. Worley wrote: From: David Lang Git was designed to track source code, there are warts that show up in the implementation when you use individual files >4GB I'd expect that if you want to deal with files over 100k, you should assume that it doesn'

Re: Git chokes on large file

2014-05-28 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 28 May 2014, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang writes: On Wed, 28 May 2014, Dale R. Worley wrote: It seems that much of Git was coded under the assumption that any file could always be held entirely in RAM. Who made that mistake? Are people so out of touch with reality? Git was

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Lang
trict requirements, it can't just be implicit or in e-mail, it requires a signed document, so unless you sign a document stating that you are transferring copyright, you don't have to worry about that. David Lang On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, David Kastrup wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:0

Re: Multi-threaded 'git clone'

2015-02-16 Thread David Lang
asure, then optimize :-) David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Multi-threaded 'git clone'

2015-02-16 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, Jeff King wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 05:31:13AM -0800, David Lang wrote: I think it's an interesting question to look at, but before you start looking at changing the architecture of the current code, I would suggest doing a bit more analisys of the problem to s

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] protocol v2

2015-03-01 Thread David Lang
ot of disk space compared to CPU and be willing to have lots of packs around, others are less busy and will only want to keep a few around. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordom

Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] protocol v2

2015-03-01 Thread David Lang
en it goes out of sync for any reason and attempt to recover. how would these approaches be affected by a client that is pulling from different remotes into one local repository? For example, pulling from the main kernel repo and from the -stable repo. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this li

Re: An interesting opinion on DVCS/git

2015-03-03 Thread David Lang
de, you will find lots of things to point at to justify your opinion. I'm not saying that there isn't room for improvement, I'm just saying that the evidence provided is not as one-sided as they make it sound. David Lang

Re: Promoting Git developers

2015-03-16 Thread David Lang
n a particularly discussed topic, they would probably give it pretty good visibility. David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Promoting Git developers

2015-03-16 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang writes: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015, Junio C Hamano wrote: Christian Couder writes: I wrote something about a potential Git Rev News news letter: I read it. Sounds promising. Just one suggestion on the name and half a comment. How would

Re: VCS popularity

2015-03-31 Thread David Lang
ositories is an interesting datapoint, but activity in the repos would be far more interesting. There are a lot of repos of various types out there that haven't been touched for years. David Lang

Re: VCS popularity

2015-03-31 Thread David Lang
does (with github being the extreme case) David Lang

Re: Reviews on mailing-list

2012-11-11 Thread David Lang
don't have connectivity. Coincidently, one of the common times when people don't have connectivity is when they are traveling, and this can be a good time to do things like code review. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in t

Re: Reviews on mailing-list

2012-11-11 Thread David Lang
any pending reviews along with everything else. David Lang

Re: Python extension commands in git - request for policy change

2012-11-25 Thread David Lang
f it) in the language-of-the-day, and you won't be the last (even, or especially if it does get re-written in Python ;-) David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Millisecond precision in timestamps?

2012-11-27 Thread David Lang
s. If the timestamps are within a minute or so, you are in pretty good shape. David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
n what the developers produce in their local repository and what you then bless as the authoritative 'released' version of the code. However, this master repository is just a matter of convention, it is possible to use any repository as the 'origin', changing it is just a

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
would expect you to have all sorts of problems. David Lang -- 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: "David Lang" wrote in message news:... But if you try to have one filesystem, with multiple people running git on their machines against that shared filesystem, I would expect you to have all sorts of problems. What leads you to

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: Linus seemed to think it should work: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/122670 In the link you point at, he says that you can

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] Linus says that git does not have "proper locking", so think about it, what do you think will happen if person A does git add a/b; git commit and person B does git add c/d; git commit? Sorry

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-16 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: 1. a bare repository that is normally accessed only by "git push" and "git pull" (or "git fetch"), the central repository

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-17 Thread David Lang
repository which resides externally to any of the local machines, such as on a network server (and which I'm assuming has git installed locally as well). What am I missing? The 'other' David Lang ;-) -Original Message- From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] Sent: W

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-17 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Matt Seitz wrote: From: git-ow...@vger.kernel.org [git-ow...@vger.kernel.org] on behalf of Lang, David [david.l...@uhn.ca] The other David Lang (da...@lang.hm) believes that using "git push" using NFS or CIFS/SMB may not be safe and reliable. Based on the

RE: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-18 Thread David Lang
nother one, David Lang On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Lang, David wrote: Hi Matt and David, Your responses have been very helpful for this newbie...thanks very much! I have a good sense now of the difference btw a CVCS and a DVCS. Here are two more questions... 1. I now get the sense that there

Re: Question re. git remote repository

2013-01-18 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote: David Lang writes: What I would do is to have each developer have their own local copy that they are working on. I would then find a machine that is going to be on all the time (which could be a developer's desktop), and create a master repos

Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

2013-06-04 Thread David Lang
rse, interested folks can take the last version of the removed ones and continue improving them as standalone projects. If you can, you should leave just enough of a stub in place so that people who don't know about the change and try to run the stuff that used to be in contrib/ get a mess

Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

2013-06-06 Thread David Lang
pting languages show up, make a lot of press, and then fade in favor of other languages while Perl has continued. It's not the sexy languange nowdays, but it's there, reliable, and used so heavily that there's really no chance of it dissapearing in the forseable future. David Lang

Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

2013-06-06 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: David Lang wrote: Perl use may or may not be declining (depending on how you measure it), but are you really willing to take on the task of re-writing everything that's in Perl into another language and force all developers of scripts to

Re: Last mile to 1.0?

2005-07-16 Thread David Lang
pdates will save a significant amount of processing power. would it make sense to have it do something along the lines of sending the day;s pack file plus a small number of individual object (even if the pack file will partially duplicate object the puller already has) David Lang -- There a

Re: [RFD] server-info to help clients

2005-07-19 Thread David Lang
t A is part of this 40% of the trees, while object B is part of that otehr 40% (disjoint set) so it's probably a good idea to put them into seperate packs' but that can be done much futher down the road without having to change the clients at all. David Lang On Tue, 19 J

Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4

2005-08-12 Thread David Lang
s are available? David Lang On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:34:45 +0200 From: Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4 Hi, Alan Chandler wrote: Not sure I understand the proper use of

Re: [OT?] git tools at SourceForge ?

2005-08-12 Thread David Lang
same object blob. now when you start makeing packs this sort of thing can make the optimal logic for deciding what's in each pack 'interesting', but as long as each pack is self contained the rest of the git tools will handle things just fine. David Lang -- There are two way

Re: Merge with git-pasky II.

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
one wanted to build a traditional SCM on top of a git-a-like. Attached is a patch, and a rename-file.c to use it. Simon given that you have multiple machines creating files, how do you deal with the idea of the same 'unique id' being assigned to different files by different machines? David Lan

SHA1 hash safety

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
d the same hash.. David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: space compression (again)

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
es in that directory, this would be that if the hash on the file hasn't changed we don't need to re-check the chunks inside that file. David Lang On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Ray Heasman wrote: Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:33:03 -0700 From: Ray Heasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: git@vger.ker

Re: SHA1 hash safety

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: this issue was raised a few days ago in the context of someone tampering with the files and it was decided that the extra checks were good enough to prevent this (at least for now), but what about accidental coll

Re: SHA1 hash safety

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
ant a unique ID that can be computed directly from the file contents. what file integrety programa (ala tripwire) do is to use multiple identification routines (aide uses MD4+MD5+filesize IIRC) David Lang wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: SHA1 hash safety

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
researches quote statistics that show how hard it is to intentiallly create two files with the same hash and insist it just doesn't happen until presented by the proof, at which point it is a big deal. a difference in viewpoints. David Lang On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Da

Re: Re: SHA1 hash safety

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:36:28 -0400 (EDT) From: C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, git@vger.ke

Re: Re: Merge with git-pasky II.

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
tely, but it won't solve the problem of running into a collision locally (and won't do much to help you figure out what's wrong when you run into a remote collision) David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that th

Re: full kernel history, in patchset format

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
t to go back before -rc2 David Lang -- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare - To unsubscribe from this

Re: fix mktemp (remove mktemp ;)

2005-04-16 Thread David Lang
ks in this directory) David Lang On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Dave Jones wrote: Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:57:57 -0400 From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], git@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fix mktemp (remove mktemp

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