[Monotone-devel] Re: Undo a commit

2008-10-09 Thread Lapo Luchini
break other uses) -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” (Isaac Asimov, Foundation, 1942-05) ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone

[Monotone-devel] Smashing Magazine on Monotone

2008-09-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/18/the-top-7-open-source-version-control-systems/ Doesn't say much, but states that it values integrity highly =) -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” (Isaac Asimov

[Monotone-devel] Re: mtn2git issues

2008-08-31 Thread Lapo Luchini
Felipe Contreras wrote: Right now I'm fetching the whole contents of the file anyway, git would check if the file has changed or not. Then you can easily have the file id, that is (currently) the SHA-1 of the file... ___ Monotone-devel mailing

[Monotone-devel] Re: character set.

2008-07-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
was pleasantly surprised by the fact that content was *always* using binary diffs and only using text for merging or annotating or so… -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “UNIX is user-friendly, it just chooses its friends.” (Andreas Bogk) ___ Monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] Re: character set.

2008-07-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
-safe, I guess we would have discovered any bug by now for sure, we even committed gigs of binary content (photos) at the summit ;-) -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

[Monotone-devel] MySQL and blue-sky wishlist

2008-06-20 Thread Lapo Luchini
projects in the wiki, more like bigger adoption implies more patch/developers eventually available) -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage” (Ron Rivest, RSA-129 challenge, 1977) ___ Monotone-devel mailing list

[Monotone-devel] ikiwiki

2008-06-19 Thread Lapo Luchini
with it, and continue the migration? It's not nice to have only one wiki visibile, and that one with a big migration in progress, please wait… we could have them both linked in homepage for some time… -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.” (Albert

[Monotone-devel] Re: ikiwiki

2008-06-19 Thread Lapo Luchini
at the summit because they were capable of crashing ikiwiki completely, but I see that Richard's website managed to update, so that ikiwiki bug was probably solved in the meantime ;-) -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary

[Monotone-devel] Re: Bug #21545 -- really annoying

2008-05-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
forget to use '-N' (non-recursive) flag and have to un-add lots of files at least once per week =) -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.” (Donald Knuth) ___ Monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] win32 root problems

2008-05-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
As reported to me by a french friend of mine, using win32 installer (I always use cygwin, so I know little about that) E:\mtn -d megatokyo.mtn -b it.megatokyo.test.www checkout e:\www\ mtn: avertissement : current directory 'E:' is not below root 'E:/' mtn: utilisation erronÚeá: la branche

[Monotone-devel] Re: Fw: [Monotone-commits-nodiffs] Revision 6e5ca0f5b488dd17a56a56301b51eabc5bb356a6

2008-05-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
\ --plugin graphviz --plugin table --exclude 'index\.mdwn' \ ikiwiki/checkout/dir/ output/dir/ -- Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/ “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” (Pablo Picasso) ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] Re: HEADS UP: wiki migration

2008-05-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
William Uther wrote: I had a quick look at this wanting to help. t seems that there are many good and useful pages (such as the BestPractices sub-tree). There are also a bunch of pages that were set up to list some points around a theme that have drifted way out of date (e.g. AttrUseCases).

[Monotone-devel] Cygwin + Vista = broken

2008-05-05 Thread Lapo Luchini
As reported by Christof during the summit, I can confirm the Cygwin port of Monotone is broken on Vista. I will try to solve the problem ASAP. Lapo ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org

[Monotone-devel] Re: HEADS UP: wiki migration

2008-05-05 Thread Lapo Luchini
Daniel Carosone wrote: We're in the process of migrating the wiki to ikiwiki, which will be used to generate the main website content, wiki parts included. ...and we did quite a bit of it, in the last couple of days, I'd say =) Graydon, could you please disable edits on the current wiki?

[Monotone-devel] Re: Speedup chances

2008-05-05 Thread Lapo Luchini
Christof Petig wrote: Botan seems to call memset on buffer free. And since we call hex_decode some 100k times per OE roster read, this easily adds up. I don't know whether botan's hex_decode is slow or fast, but using dynamic buffering here kills performance. I don't think it's a problem of

[Monotone-devel] Re: Speedup chances

2008-05-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
Christof Petig wrote: (especially given that, according to Lapo, there is/was a specialized 40 digit hex decoder in monotone written by Graydon. It was Eric's mail pointing to that 2006 revision actually, but that should be in mainline even now... Lapo

[Monotone-devel] Re: Speedup chances

2008-05-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Another thing to keep in mind: instead of trying hard to squeeze out the last bits of performance from the decoder, it might rather be possible to avoid en- and decoding steps completely by using a binary roster format - thus also storing binary hashes. That's my

[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship

2008-05-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: Sorry, but just ranting that something doesn't work or something is missing doesn't bring you anywhere if you're working with an Open Source tool. Well, don't be too harsh, it's not like we don't accept suggestions as well, but the fact is: they are two different system,

[Monotone-devel] Re: hex en/decode speed measurement: 40% reduction by using the old specialized versions by graydon (2006) again

2008-05-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
Christof Petig wrote: mtn: Zertifikate | Schlüssel | Revisionen mtn: 76.702 |74 | 25.283 mtn: Bytes rein | Bytes raus | Zertifikate rein | Revisionen rein mtn: 1,1 M |361,4 k | 560/560 | 136/136 mtn: erfolgreicher Austausch mit localhost On all my

[Monotone-devel] Re: nuskool certs created after a revision

2008-05-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: This way I only have, on each sync, to double-check the certs created at the time of the frontier, which as we well know is usually composed of only a few heads (1, 2, rarely more). Uh, not so, this does not work as well, seen in the daylight: *which* frontier? The very

[Monotone-devel] Re: OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship

2008-05-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Anyway, once again, the eierlegende-wollmilchsau called policy branches will solve (as opposed to work around) these problems for monotone, one day. Is that some sort of German shmoo[1]? Lapo 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo

[Monotone-devel] Re: Howto help: detecting updates in a script

2008-05-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
Jack Lloyd wrote: Is there anything better? Sure it is =) http://monotone.ca/monotone.html#Hooks -- note_netsync_revision_received (new_id, revision, certs, session_id) ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org

Re: [Monotone-devel] OpenEmbedded looking to jump ship

2008-05-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Hi, Lapo Luchini wrote: Is that some sort of German shmoo[1]? Mh.. not quite. But you should have enough Germans around you to explain to you ;-) It's one of those very powerful and efficient animals which produce eggs (Eier), Wool (Wolle) and Milk (Milch

[Monotone-devel] nuskool certs created after a revision

2008-05-01 Thread Lapo Luchini
Today I had a quick chat with Markus and Derek about nuskool and actually went and read gsync.cc and -to my surprise- I have to agree with 'em when they said it's easy, really!. I didn't really thought so at first. OK. It transfers the DAG oh-so-nice, and cleverly so too. Then they told me

[Monotone-devel] see you at the summit

2008-04-24 Thread Lapo Luchini
I won't probably be able to read mail from this evening until the summit... see you there ;-) Lapo ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] summit flag day?

2008-04-23 Thread Lapo Luchini
I was thinking... during this past year after the last summit I read many times sentences like we are waiting to do that until the next flag day... is there a place those informations are kept? Is it now the time to actually suffer that flag day? Or, at least, to plan for it? (maybe a

[Monotone-devel] Re: summit flag day?

2008-04-23 Thread Lapo Luchini
Richard Levitte wrote: lapo 2. use principals instead of key names all around Uhmmm, what's a principal in this context? Something like the hash of the public key material instead of a user-chosen text. Lapo ___ Monotone-devel mailing list

[Monotone-devel] Re: summit flag day?

2008-04-23 Thread Lapo Luchini
Richard Levitte wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:39:32 +0200, Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: lapo Richard Levitte wrote: lapo lapo 2. use principals instead of key names all around lapo Uhmmm, what's a principal in this context? lapo lapo Something like

[Monotone-devel] Re: summit flag day?

2008-04-23 Thread Lapo Luchini
Koen Kooi wrote: Please ensure that new mtn releases can still talk to 'old' releases over netsync Some of the changes I mentioned can allow this, some other simply do not... As far as I know netsync (i.e. very little) changing the hash to something that's not 20 byte long will necessarily

[Monotone-devel] Re: cygwin, mingw32 binaries?

2008-04-21 Thread Lapo Luchini
Stephen Leake wrote: The cygwin and mingw32 binaries for 0.40 have not appeared on the monotone website yet. Cygwin binaries actually never appeared on the monotone website, only links to Cygwin's installer as far as I remember. Could whoever currently does the Cygwin binary add a

[Monotone-devel] Re: fatal: Botan::PRNG_Unseeded

2008-04-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
Zack Weinberg wrote: I'm not aware of any reason other than backward compatibility, but that's a doozy: this is yet another of the changes that would require a cert-reissuing event. AFAIR of the summit the ssh-agent support was a problem, too. On a tangent of the pros of abandoning the most

[Monotone-devel] Re: fatal: Botan::PRNG_Unseeded

2008-04-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: ECDSA signatures would be so small Which is of course of PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE, because signatures right now use almost 4% of database space. That's not acceptable. (yes, I'm kidding) % mtn db exec 'SELECT SUM(LENGTH(signature)) FROM revision_certs;' 5861887 % bc 5861888

[Monotone-devel] Re: Personal/Project/MtnSummit Introduction

2008-04-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
Philipp Gröschler wrote: I thought that a small viewing application based on PHP couldn't be that much of a problem. I had that phase too, and began a little something... but being alone, and being redundant, and having little precious free time, I eventually abandoned it... I had a little

[Monotone-devel] Re: fatal: Botan::PRNG_Unseeded

2008-04-01 Thread Lapo Luchini
Nathaniel Smith wrote: What else are random numbers used for? As I understand it, signing does not use random numbers, but maybe I'm confused. IIRC signatures do include random nonces -- I think this is one of the things I picked up from Paul's rants about our cryptography -- but I could be

[Monotone-devel] Re: Last Call: Google Summer Of Code 2008 application

2008-03-10 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: I urge everyone who is interested in seeing monotone as mentor organization in this year's Google Summer Of Code program to step up and [...] step up as mentor for one or more of those projects I'd like to, but I didn't had enough time to even completely acquaint myself

[Monotone-devel] Re: IPv6 addresses and ports (and netxx)

2008-03-05 Thread Lapo Luchini
Matthew Nicholson wrote: Perhaps we should start a branch to replace netxx with boost::asio[0] which is similar in design and functionality and maintained upstream (and will be a part of the next major boost release). It's used by projects as big as AbiWord (ons Boost), so the probability of

[Monotone-devel] Re: IPv6 addresses and ports (and netxx)

2008-03-05 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: (ons Boost), so the probability When and is mispelled ons, medical advise is highly suggested. ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] Re: Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: Could one of the guys who're sending the application last year / the year before last year give me the original application texts as blueprint for this year's application? AFAIR that was Nathaniel... I've also created a raw ideas page [1] I'll try to add to it soon =)

[Monotone-devel] Re: Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
Nathaniel Smith wrote: The application for 2007 (that they ended up not reading because of confusing deadline issues) is still up at http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/SummerOfCode2007 and probably most of it still applies. You really like the word 'grotty', don't you? ;-) Lapo PS: I guess

[Monotone-devel] IPv6 addresses and ports (and netxx)

2008-03-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
I've noticed that monotone doesn't accept the quite common form [::1]:4691 to specify both IPv6 address and port explicitly... I taken a look at the netsync code and discovered that well, except for the case :4691 where only the port is specified, it's not managed by monotone at all but by

[Monotone-devel] Re: [offtopic] Google Analytics for monotone's website

2008-02-27 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: It filters bots more effectively, the statistics are more extensive (geo targeting, f.e.) and the UI is very catchy. Ok, after having received three mostly negative answers, I'll drop the idea ;) FWIW I use it on my websites, and like it. =) (I *also* run

[Monotone-devel] Re: No windows buildbot?

2008-02-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
Stephen Leake wrote: I've got Cygwin installed, so I'm hoping the Unix instructions will just work; so far they have. More later. What stopped me in the past (together with a general lack of time) is the fact that I'd like such a bot to use a separated user privileges and was not very

[Monotone-devel] Re: FOSDEM'08

2008-02-21 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Ludovic, Markus? Who else for a mini-meeting? I'm in for a mini-meeting, even if we only discuss the differences between German and Belgian beer, French and Italian wine, and various key signing policies. My motivation for FOSDEM itself is way down […] I will confirm my

[Monotone-devel] Re: locale bug ?

2008-02-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Zack Weinberg wrote: It's a consequence of certain fields in the database being run through a canonicalization designed for domain names (that's what IDNA is). The only person who might possibly have remembered the rationale is Graydon, but I already asked him and he doesn't. :-/ One (valid,

[Monotone-devel] Re: bundled libs

2008-02-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: On the other hand, Windows Cygwin is easy to use. On the gripping hand, some people just hate Windows Cygwin. Yes, from what I know, it's said to be slow. And some others just love it ;) It certainly adds syscall-overhead (main reason being that copy-on-write

[Monotone-devel] Re: bundled libs

2008-02-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Windows will keep DLLs separate if they are in separate directories. So putting the DLLs for mtn in the same directory as mtn.exe should be enough. Sure, but that drives the concept of shared libraries ad absurbum. It's probably safer and simpler to provide a single

[Monotone-devel] Re: bundled libs

2008-02-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Anybody with a sane windows box brave enough to try using a PCRE dll? Unfortunately my only remaining Windows box is currently not able to power up... any Windows-related development and packaging will have to wait a bit on my side =(

[Monotone-devel] Re: [windows] locale problems

2008-02-15 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: It's weird because for example, (révision de base) is output as (rÚvision de base) where: - é is ISO8859-1 0xE9 or U+00E9 - Ú is ISO8859-1 0xDA or U+00DA I can't recall in which version this problem appeared. Which package do you use? The native binary or the cygwin package?

[Monotone-devel] Re: couple of things

2008-02-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
Zack Weinberg wrote: 1a) The configure script now will not let you use a system-provided libpcre if it's a different version than the bundled one. Wow, does PCRE *really* break backward-compatibility so often and so badly to need such a check? Lapo

Re: [Monotone-devel] couple of things

2008-02-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
? (just curiosity) -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OpenPGP X.509) www.lapo.it (Jabber, ICQ, MSN) ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] Re: Release recommendations?

2008-02-12 Thread Lapo Luchini
Zack Weinberg wrote: Yeah, I should have time to do that this evening or tomorrow. --with-system-pcre works ok, does it? (yes, to a quick test it seems to me it is) In that case, I'll probably use that in next FreeBSD port update, I think it's better that way, as security bugs are then followed

[Monotone-devel] Re: Release recommendations?

2008-02-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Hi, Koen Kooi wrote: Releases are cheap[1] Not sure how much Richard and the downstream packet managers agree with that, even given [1]. Provided it continues to build with the same compiler and so on (which wasn't so, for example, for AMD64 + gcc3 + 0.37 :-P)

[Monotone-devel] Re: BSD Buildbots

2008-02-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
Zack Weinberg wrote: About the hypotetic debug mode... I don't know nothing about that, i.e. if something of that sort is in place it's not intentional (but I really know nothing about the python/twistd part of the bot). malloc(3) lists a bunch of debugging options.[1] I don't see

[Monotone-devel] Re: BSD Buildbots

2008-02-04 Thread Lapo Luchini
William Uther wrote: Firstly, I note that 10768*1024 = 11026432. That means that the maximum resident set size is greater than the softlimit you set, no? Not necessarily, softlimit -d only limits the data segment, not the code size. /usr/bin/time -l './unit_tester refiner:various_counts

Re: [Monotone-devel] BSD Buildbots

2008-02-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
the python/twistd part of the bot). -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OpenPGP X.509) www.lapo.it (Jabber, ICQ, MSN) ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] Re: BSD Buildbots

2008-02-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
William Uther wrote: Hi, The BSD buildbots have been failing for a while. This itches. I do agree =) (The VMware settings gave the virtual machine a minimal 256Mb of RAM). Everything passed. The buildbots are softlimited to -d25600 from memory. I couldn't find softlimit on my

[Monotone-devel] Re: --non-interactive: run in non-interactive

2008-01-31 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: the thing is just that the key prompt is localized and therefor not nice to parse. I strongly suggest to have LANG=C in the environment each time the caller is an application and not an user, you can modulo out translation problems, at least ;-) Lapo

[Monotone-devel] Re: --non-interactive: run in non-interactive

2008-01-31 Thread Lapo Luchini
Zack Weinberg wrote: net.venge.monotone.read-password-from-dev-tty branch, but I never finished it. It was my intent to implement --passphrase-fd as part of that work. I don't know enough about Windows to say how it ought to work there, nor do I know enough about what you're doing to say

[Monotone-devel] Re: unhexification of revision hashes

2008-01-30 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: The following supposedly still works, provided you use a monotone enhanced sqlite, which provides an unhex() function: WHERE unhex(id) LIKE 'deadbe%' Don't you need the HEX() function, in fact, to do this? That's standard SQLite, AFAIR =) Lapo

[Monotone-devel] symlinks support [Was: Future of monotone]

2008-01-28 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: - support of symlinks Symlinks could be supported with hooks right now, but if you want to have this into mtn core we'd need somebody with experience on Win32 i.e. how symlinks could be handled there. AFAIK Windows doesn't really have

[Monotone-devel] Re: symlinks support [Was: Future of monotone]

2008-01-28 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: PS: I don't know about SFU, but even if it did emulate them, they wouldn't work using plain native processes anyway, I guess. Just as I suspected: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/05/InterOp/ SFU and the Interix subsystem support both hard

[Monotone-devel] Re: Future of monotone

2008-01-28 Thread Lapo Luchini
Alvaro Herrera wrote: There was some code posted that was extracting all heads and them removing the ones that were suspended. Or something like that. [...] What you're doing amount to 1 query to get the list, and then N queries to potentially remove each of the N results. I don't think

[Monotone-devel] Re: Is the windows port active?

2008-01-27 Thread Lapo Luchini
For the records, using Cygwin I can add/remove accented filenames correctly, and mtn status reports them correctly, while the message of add/remove does not; mtn ls unknown fails completely though. % export LANG=en_US.CP1252 % touch zzzà.txt % mtn add zzzà.txt mtn: adding zzzà .txt to

[Monotone-devel] Re: FOSDEM'08

2008-01-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
Ludovic Brenta wrote: The developers' rooms have all been assigned now, so it would be too late to ask for one even if we had 100 confirmed attendees. There is also the opportunity (expiring in 9 days) for a lightning talk: http://www.fosdem.org/2008/lightningtalks Lightning Talks are your 15

[Monotone-devel] Re: speed of mtn ls branches

2008-01-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Daniel Carosone wrote: Let's think about what the user might be asking for: - show me branches that are alive/interesting (for checkout, propagate, etc). This is ls branches and should validate branch and suspend certs, and filter accordingly. Clearly, the common operation.

Re: [Monotone-devel] speed of mtn ls branches

2008-01-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: I don't know that removes the warm fuzzy feeling of absolute correctness, but would certainly help in the speed side. *If* we decide to do this of this sort, we could consider using a single common speed over security option... with maybe more levels, in this case

Re: [Monotone-devel] speed of mtn ls branches

2008-01-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
? Not as a default, I'd say. When used on a one-person-only PC it certainly has some sense... and we could check permissions to be 0600 like SSH does for his keys (and explain it clearly in the option's help, also). -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OpenPGP X.509) www.lapo.it (Jabber, ICQ, MSN

[Monotone-devel] Re: options for automate inventory

2008-01-15 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: Well, if others are ok with it, leave it as is (I don't have to decide that, really ;). Just note that, next time you do wanted/accidential formatting changes, do that in a separate revision to make it easier for others to read the diff afterwards. But if they are

[Monotone-devel] Re: Perhaps strange request: partial per-file commit

2008-01-15 Thread Lapo Luchini
Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: Sorry, in case this seems too strange for most of you, but it a problem I'm faced with mostly every day and I really would appreciate some additional support from Monotone. Let me describe... In fact that happens to me often enough, too. (and right now I'm usually

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008 (it's decided!)

2008-01-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
Question about European flights: Ryanair has some quite-low-cost offers, *but* arrives in NRN, not DUS... and as far as GoogleMaps goes, it seems to be on the opposite side of Dusseldorf, to Wuppertal. Is there a good train service from there to Dusseldorf and/or Wuppertal? Mhh, ok, I mostly

[Monotone-devel] svn_sync / svn_import [Was: nvm.experiment.encapsulation review]

2008-01-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: I wonder is CVS import actually all that important anymore? Should we rather be concentrating on SVN, git, and mercurial compatibility? Well, at least to me and to Kelly, is still *is* pretty important. IMHO it is still important... but OTOH we're kinda missing

[Monotone-devel] Re: unexpected behavior from merge_into_dir + propagate

2008-01-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: PS: mtn pluck on the new main-revision did the correct thing... even tough I don't like pluck very much, as it leaves no DAG-evidence of what was done... ...and not even the perfectly correct thing after all, as the very fact of leaving no evidence lead to a rename target

[Monotone-devel] unexpected behavior from merge_into_dir + propagate

2008-01-11 Thread Lapo Luchini
I first created a sample sub-project: sub% mtn au get_manifest_of format_version 1 dir file sub_file content [71fa367aa2adf747bd05a43d516495cedcbf2b0b] Then a sample main project: main% mtn au get_manifest_of format_version 1 dir file main_a content

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008 (it's decided!)

2008-01-09 Thread Lapo Luchini
Siegfried Herbold wrote: So, new version of http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/MtnSummit2008 is now available. (I'm back from my winter holiday.) The room is reserved for us from Apr 28 until May 4. Hooray! =) Hope to see a lot of people AFAIR last year quite a few people showed up only

[Monotone-devel] MtnSummit 2008 (time to decide)

2008-01-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
As Thomas Keller said: Stand up, speak up! http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/MtnSummit2008 There seem to be two columns when our gracious host and self-proposed main organizer (that is, Siggi, as per [EMAIL PROTECTED]) is available: a) 31 march - 6 april b) 38 april - 4 may (thought he marked

[Monotone-devel] We want YOU at the Summit, REALLY!

2007-12-20 Thread Lapo Luchini
http://venge.net/mtn-wiki/MtnSummit2008 Just to remind everyone that the Summit is not something only the 3-4 big-developers can and should attend to. As the page states: Our bar is strict but low: if you're willing to work, you're welcome to come. Even if you haven't worked with monotone source

[Monotone-devel] Re: Replace key with new one (same key ID)

2007-12-19 Thread Lapo Luchini
Boris wrote: A developer lost his key and generated a new one (with the same key ID). He sent his new public key to me and asked me to update the central monotone server everyone uses to sync with. Can I simply drop his old key and add his new one? Or will this be a problem as his old key has

[Monotone-devel] Re: Merging issue

2007-12-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Peter Schanhorst wrote: NOTE: the mtn explicit_merge rev1 rev3 --branch=branch1 is DISALLOWED by mtn, and there is not possible to enforce it using some special cmd parameter. I may be completely wrong (and I know nothing of ClearCase, in fact), but I think the main problem is not what merge

Re: [Monotone-devel] MtnSummit 2008

2007-12-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
vote counts double as you're the host, IMvHO ;-) -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OpenPGP X.509) www.lapo.it (Jabber, ICQ, MSN) ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

2007-12-15 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Everybody did? IMHO we should begin to talk about actual dates... (which can, in turn, help people decide to participate, like I kinda remember it was last year..?) Well... it seems the *only* date that got a yes in every single row is 28apr-4may... and the conference room

[Monotone-devel] Re: Information for binary uploaders

2007-12-14 Thread Lapo Luchini
Stephen Leake wrote: Cygwin is also 32 bit. Yes, and won't be different anytime soon. Perhaps it should be: o Windows (32 bit) _native_ _cygwin_ There are people running 64 bit Windows now. I assume it has some sort of 32 bit compatibility mode, but we should still make it clear. I do

[Monotone-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] monotone 0.38 released

2007-12-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
Richard Levitte wrote: A new release! 0.38 has few but important changes and bug fixes. Impressive... my server in Nuremberg is in a nice server farm and has a lot of bandwidth... but it's the first time I experience a 2Mbps trans-oceanic download =) (though monotone sources are probably too

[Monotone-devel] Re: Information for binary uploaders

2007-12-13 Thread Lapo Luchini
Richard Levitte wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:19:01 +0100, Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: lapo Cygwin binary and source packages on their way to Cygwin mirrors lapo already... I wonder: should we advertise it someway in the lapo homepage? Hosting

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

2007-12-10 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Let's start with this: EVERYBODY FILL IN AVAILABILITY-DATE TABLE! http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/MtnSummit2008 ...so that we can decide it (and thus book tickets) shortly ;-) Everybody did? IMHO we should begin to talk about actual dates... (which can, in turn, help people

[Monotone-devel] Re: Is this the right mailing list? [Was: upgrading 0.36-0.37: mtn: fatal: std::logic_error: roster.cc:186: invariant 'fetching nonexistent entry from children' violated]

2007-12-07 Thread Lapo Luchini
Arthur A. Gleckler wrote: All is well now. That was a real scare! What about the broader UI problem this exposed? I wonder what's best: 1. don't allow commits with names that are caseless-equals to existing ones (or allow only it with a switch that clearly states use this only if this project

[Monotone-devel] Re: What does it mean when a revision hastwobranch certs?

2007-12-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
Craig L. Ching wrote: Well, that brings up an interesting question. So would it also be possible for a revision to have two author certs as well? I mean, if you can add certs manually, what sorts of things should I be watching for? I'm working on a repository browser so I'm trying to make

[Monotone-devel] Re: Is this the right mailing list? [Was: upgrading 0.36-0.37: mtn: fatal: std::logic_error: roster.cc:186: invariant 'fetching nonexistent entry from children' violated]

2007-12-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
Arthur A. Gleckler wrote: That seems to indicate that the history has been corrupted even before the version where I upgraded. Don't ever worry about that, really: committing a corrupted revision, it *might* happen with a buggy release, but corrupting previously working history is simply not

[Monotone-devel] Re: What does it mean when a revision has twobranch certs?

2007-12-05 Thread Lapo Luchini
Craig L. Ching wrote: Heh, I figured that but thought I'd just make sure, sometimes things aren't as obvious as they seem, not so in this case ;-) The most common source of dual-branched revisions is (I think) when you propagate and no change is needed (a new branch cert is simply added, as the

[Monotone-devel] TortoiseBzr

2007-12-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
Suggestion for people that might consider writing TortoiseMtn (a monotone-equivalent of TortoiseCVS or TortoiseSVN): the Bazaar team is growing a TortoiseBzr (written in Python). Since Bazaar is closer to Monotone than, say, CVS or SVN are, that's probably the best starting point ;-)

[Monotone-devel] Re: Time for a release, I think...

2007-12-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: AFAIR Matt did a small, but very noticable change wrt merging in 139613dd1ee3f2c7e4b0578aaacf1d8a67f240d9. We got pretty often complains that a complex merge result was abandoned just because no or a wrong key was given. Another IMHO NEWS-worthy merge-related news is that

[Monotone-devel] Re: exit code of '1' in 0.37 win32 version when using ssh-agent signature

2007-12-01 Thread Lapo Luchini
Daniel Atallah wrote: I've gotten in the habit of using `mtn pull mtn up` to update my working copies (I use the native win32 version of monotone in a cygwin shell). While I don't have answers to your problem (I didn't use the win32 version in ages), just out of curiosity, can I ask you why

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

2007-11-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: Siegfried Herbold wrote: OK, I'll organize the event. Cool, thank you! Let us know how we can be of help. Yeah, if there is anything we can do remotely, let us know. Let's start with this: EVERYBODY FILL IN AVAILABILITY-DATE TABLE!

[Monotone-devel] FOSDEM'08

2007-11-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus wrote: we've also thought about a DevRoom at FOSDEM. Up until now, I only know that Ludovic Brenta wants to attend FOSDEM, Lapo showed some interest and I myself am still undecided if I want to go to Brussels. If nobody else speaks up, I don't think that justifies a DevRoom there.

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

2007-11-24 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Siegfried Herbold wrote: OK, I'll organize the event. Cool, thank you! Let us know how we can be of help. Ditto =) Lapo ___ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

2007-11-22 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Zurich vs Wuppertal: shall we need to toss the proverbial coin? ;-) Err... my message was *NOT* meant to stop every discussion, rather the opposite in fact :P (or is it gmane.org bridge with monotone-ml suddenly broken

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

2007-11-19 Thread Lapo Luchini
Thomas Keller wrote: Stand up, speak up! Zurich vs Wuppertal: shall we need to toss the proverbial coin? ;-) Both seem interesting and have their pros, and no one seems like really standing up for one or the other... but this way time flies and we risk more and more likely to choose neither,

[Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

2007-11-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Markus Schiltknecht wrote: I've offered that for Zurich about a month ago. But I got the impression that it's too expensive for most people. Zurich would be übercool! Awesome! Great! 0=) BTW: I wouldn't dislike Wuppertal either... I guess the decision between the two will be mainly fought as:

[Monotone-devel] Re: Key identities...

2007-11-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
Richard Levitte wrote: I won't deny that William's change is going to make a difference, but I question if it will be *enough* of a difference. IMHO as creation of more keys with same name will always be possible (in disconnected spaces), we better accept to work with them properly (using only

Re: [Monotone-devel] cvs_import

2007-11-12 Thread Lapo Luchini
of needed memory. The import doesn't run through, though. It hits another invariant later on. Whops, that doesn't even fit in the swap, right now... Well, I should have a box with more RAM HDD in the near future. -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OpenPGP X.509) www.lapo.it (Jabber, ICQ, MSN

[Monotone-devel] Re: cvs_import

2007-11-11 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: Richard Levitte wrote: markus Please let me know if you have an urgent desire for importing markus a specific CVS repository or if you'd like to test importing markus one yourself. And I will try FreeBSD anytime soon. It always stops at version 101454 like this: mtn

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