On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:11:50AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ryan Anderson:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo "Don't get a git - use gt!
> Ouch.
:) I meant it as a joke, obviously. I also thinkoed the sentence I was
aiming for, thus losing the humor. Oh well.
> > echo "Do
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Debian folks on the list: We had to make this ugly hack in
our Debianization because Debian heavyweights did not like
to see "Conflicts:" and us lowly new maintainers needed to
obey their wishes.
Linus: The alleged name clash appears to be a Debian
specific problem. No oth
Hi,
Ryan Anderson:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "Don't get a git - use gt!
Ouch.
> echo "Don't get a git - use gt!" >&2
if at all.
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:35:55PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> David Lang:
> > after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never
> > having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still
> > avilable?
> >
> Lots.
>
> > I'm assuming that the much
Hi,
Martin Langhoff:
> It is correct to have Architecture: i386, as you'd naturally have
> multiple binary packages.
However, git(-t)k doesn't contain any i386 code, just a tk script.
> Packages with arch 'all' are interpreted languages.
Exactly. ;-)
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> I just noticed from "dpkg --info" output that the generated
> git-tk has "Architecture: i386". Shouldn't it read "all" and
> resulting package also named git-tk_${VERSION}_all.deb, instead
> of whatever architecture I happened to build it?
It is correct to have Architecture: i386, as you'd natu
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - Split gitk off to its own package;
> it needs tk installed, but nothing else does.
I just noticed from "dpkg --info" output that the generated
git-tk has "Architecture: i386". Shouldn't it read "all" and
resulting package also named git-tk_${VER
Hi,
David Lang:
> after so many years of software development (and with the policy of never
> having conflicting command names) what three letter combinations are still
> avilable?
>
Lots.
> I'm assuming that the much smaller pool of two letter commands was long
> since exhausted, but if not
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
Hi, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Not sure I understand the proper use of dpkg-divert in Debian, but could
> _this_ git-core package perhaps ask the user which set of the two
> packages he wish to keep as git command and use dpkg-divert to change
> the other to another name to some other name?
IIRC, t
On Thursday 11 August 2005 23:53, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this "I
> have a package" crap.
http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst
#Format
#
# is the package name;
# is the number of people who installed this package;
# is the number o
Hi,
Linus Torvalds:
> Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this "I
> have a package" crap.
>
You're preaching to the converted here.
The Debian-package-for-Debian could pop up a notice asking the user to
symlink /usr/local/bin/git => /usr/bin/gitscm (or whatever) i
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 16:20 -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this "I
> > have a package" crap.
>
> Obviously no one on the git list uses GNU Interactive Tools, or this
> problem wou
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>rank nameinstvote old recent
>>6591 git 114 24 83 7
>>2 git-core 2 1 0 1 (Not in sid)
>>29939 cogito-scm 1 0 1 0 (Not in sid)
>
> Thi
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hands up people. Does anybody _use_ GNU interactive tools? None of this "I
> have a package" crap.
Obviously no one on the git list uses GNU Interactive Tools, or this
problem would have been caught much sooner.
It's only when you release it into the w
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > A small Debian-specific patch to rename the offending scripts (and drop
> > the Conflicts: entries) is cheap.
>
> Not sure I understand the proper use of dpkg-divert in Debian, but could
> _this_ git-core package perhaps ask t
Matthias Urlichs wrote:
A small Debian-specific patch to rename the offending scripts (and drop
the Conflicts: entries) is cheap.
Not sure I understand the proper use of dpkg-divert in Debian, but could
_this_ git-core package perhaps ask the user which set of the two
packages he wish to
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>
> What I have is bug reports against the cogito package, from people who
> want to install both. The reports came very soon after I released the
> package, so I dont think it's a totally freak occurance.
The point is, people have the thing _ins
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
> mandatory anyway (as far as my quick grep told me).
It's not "mandatory", but the tutorial etc use it as an example.
In other words, if you remove the git script, you are going to have a
_b
On Thursday 11 August 2005 15:11, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>>> People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid
>>> people, and I bet not just Debian people.
>>
>> Why do you say that?
>>
>> D
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another possible solution: Rename git's git to X and install ours as Y.
> Ask the user which should be symlinked to /usr/bin/git, if both are
> installed, via the existing "alternatives" system.
I suggested this on debian-devel, and was told that updat
Hi,
Sebastian Kuzminsky:
> > The cg script has a bit more value.
>
> Tried that too, and I got the bug reports to prove it. ;-)
>
Another possible solution: Rename git's git to X and install ours as Y.
Ask the user which should be symlinked to /usr/bin/git, if both are
installed, via the existi
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:24:10PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sam Ravnborg:
> > >
> > > Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
> > > ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
> >
> > The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is
Hi,
Sam Ravnborg:
> >
> > Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
> > ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
>
> The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
> mandatory anyway (as far as my quick grep told me).
I'd vote to keep the sc
Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
> > ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
>
> The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
> mandatory anyway (as far as my quick grep told me).
>
>
> Anyway, enough of this. I understand the name will not change and I'm
> ok with that. I'll deal with it on our (Debian's) end.
The easy fix is to kill the small git script that is not
mandatory anyway (as far as my quick grep told me).
The cg script has a bit more value.
Sam
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Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>>
>> People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
>> and I bet not just Debian people.
>
> Why do you say that?
>
> Do you have anybody who actually does, or are you just claim
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> >
> > People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
> > and I bet not just Debian people.
>
> Why do you say that?
>
> Do you have anybody who actually does, or are you just
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>
> People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
> and I bet not just Debian people.
Why do you say that?
Do you have anybody who actually does, or are you just claiming so?
Some distributions seems to disagree with yo
Hi, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> People still use GNU Interactive Tools. Not just crazy, stupid people,
> and I bet not just Debian people.
Possibly. But the number of people running both git and git are, I'd bet,
smaller than those who will send annoying emails when they install git and
can't r
Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While we're at it, renaming cogito's "cg" to "cog" would fix another
> filename conflict in Debian, and would give the right hand something to
> do while the left hand seeks from c to g. ;-)
Well, these days cogito ships without git, so maybe it
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The top man-page I found for GNU interactive tools says:
>
> A Set of Interactive Programs
> Edition 2.5, for GIT version 4.3.16
> January 1997
>
> just let it die in peace.
The top of the RCS changelog says:
Fri Jun 16 06:19:24
Hi,
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> A Set of Interactive Programs
> Edition 2.5, for GIT version 4.3.16
> January 1997
>
> just let it die in peace.
God have mercy over (old) GIT's soul.
Amen
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>
> Well, I doubt this problem lies with Debian.
Oh, it definitely does.
>GNU Interactive Tools is
> packaged for most (all?) distributions, and has been there for ages.
.. but no other distribution seems to install i
Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/11/05, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree completely - it's super bogus to rename the two central programs.
> > It makes Debian essentially incompatible with the rest of the world.
>
> Well, I doubt this problem lies with De
On 8/11/05, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree completely - it's super bogus to rename the two central programs.
> It makes Debian essentially incompatible with the rest of the world.
Well, I doubt this problem lies with Debian. GNU Interactive Tools is
packaged for most (all
Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cogito 0.12.1 (which includes git) has been packaged by Sebastian
> Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; it's in Debian Unstable. I assume
> he'll do something about packaging the current version; I just filed a
> wishlist bug in Debian.
>
> The current "cog
Hi,
Martin Langhoff:
> On 8/11/05, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Debian packaging fixes for 0.99.4:
>
> Is this anywhere in the archive?
>
Cogito 0.12.1 (which includes git) has been packaged by Sebastian
Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; it's in Debian Unstable. I assume
he'll do
On 8/11/05, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Debian packaging fixes for 0.99.4:
Is this anywhere in the archive?
cheers,
martin
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