Re: [Monotone-devel] linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Brian May
J == J Decker J writes: J Harsh (also beware of falling rants) Unforutnatly, J although monotone has become much much better for performance J issues... it was knocked out of the world of 'valid' J distributed version control systems because of speed. Maybe I got this

Re: [Monotone-devel] linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Brian May
J == J Decker J writes: J I dunno... only MS thing that really fails badly is J notepad but then who edits code in notepad? I think that J tab doesn't even work there... Notepad still seems to be the default association for some file types :-(, and for some reason I can't

[Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Bruce Stephens
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J == J Decker J writes: J Harsh (also beware of falling rants) Unforutnatly, J although monotone has become much much better for performance J issues... it was knocked out of the world of 'valid' J distributed version control systems

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:21:11PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: Just doing update, monotone checks RSA signatures (to see if revisions are on the branch), calls lua hooks (for the same reason); and throughout all that gets its information from SQLite. (At that time, IIRC, base64 encoded

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:04:29PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: Ah, there isn't a revision cert. Revisions just are. Oh, oops! put_simple_revision_cert and cert_revision_in_branch in cert.cc threw me off. Obviously I understand Montone's schema even less than I thought I did. Thanks for the

Re: [Monotone-devel] linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Nuno Lucas
On 5/21/07, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J == J Decker J writes: J Harsh (also beware of falling rants) Unforutnatly, J although monotone has become much much better for performance J issues... it was knocked out of the world of 'valid' J distributed version control

Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Julio M. Merino Vidal
On 21/05/2007, at 14:47, Jack Lloyd wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:21:11PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote: Just doing update, monotone checks RSA signatures (to see if revisions are on the branch), calls lua hooks (for the same reason); and throughout all that gets its information from

[Monotone-devel] Fwd: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-21 Thread Jack Lloyd
[Article summary: 307 digit = 1019 bit integer of special form factored by Lenstra. It took 11 months on a very large cluster (exact size not mentioned)] While of course most/all Monotone keys are not high value enough to be worth this kind of effort, it may be worthwhile to either increase the

Re: [Monotone-devel] Fwd: 307 digit number factored

2007-05-21 Thread Timothy Brownawell
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:42 -0400, Jack Lloyd wrote: [Article summary: 307 digit = 1019 bit integer of special form factored by Lenstra. It took 11 months on a very large cluster (exact size not mentioned)] While of course most/all Monotone keys are not high value enough to be worth this

[Monotone-devel] Re: linus talk on git

2007-05-21 Thread Graydon Hoare
Nuno Lucas wrote: Maybe I got this wrong, but based on what I have seen so far of this talk, I couldn't help but think that Linus didn't consult the Monotone developers with his concerns about speed, why it was slow, or how much work it would take to improve its speed. He talked to us a bit.

Re: [Monotone-devel] need error message for missing dlls on Windows

2007-05-21 Thread Stephen Leake
Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 2007-05-20T10:42:00-0400, Stephen Leake wrote: When I run a mtn on Windows, it fails with no message if the required dlls are not in PATH. The DLLs do not need to be in the PATH. Windows will look for them in the same directory as the monotone