Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-09-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-09-01 07:55-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/24/2014 9:30 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >> DONE. See 6c81eb2. >> >> The files are called >> >> historical_repository_conversions/README_cvs2svn_conversion >> historical_repository_conversions/README_svn2git_conversion >> historical_reposito

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-09-01 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 8/24/2014 9:30 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > DONE. See 6c81eb2. > > The files are called > > historical_repository_conversions/README_cvs2svn_conversion > historical_repository_conversions/README_svn2git_conversion > historical_repository_conversions/authors.txt > historical_repository_conversio

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-24 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 8/24/2014 9:30 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2014-08-17 07:56-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >> This is fine with me. Perhaps the directory should be called something >> like "historical" and "vcs_conversions", and you could include what >> was done for the CVS to SVN conversion as well? > > DONE.

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-17 07:56-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/17/2014 2:41 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> To make this file proposal concrete, I am suggesting storing the file >> in PLplot_repo_information/README_svn2git_conversion (a directory and >> name that are unlikely to be deleted by accident by anyone

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-22 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-22 09:45-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/21/2014 8:48 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> So we were all in agreement that storage (in a file) of the SHA1 id of >> the HEAD commits from each branch to be deleted would be enough to >> guarantee branch resurrection, but it turns out that is inco

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-22 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 8/21/2014 8:48 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > So we were all in agreement that storage (in a file) of the SHA1 id of > the HEAD commits from each branch to be deleted would be enough to > guarantee branch resurrection, but it turns out that is incorrect. > Further reading shows that git automaticall

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-21 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-17 11:00-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: >>> To make this file proposal concrete, I am suggesting storing the file >>> in PLplot_repo_information/README_svn2git_conversion (a directory and >>> name that are unlikely to be deleted by accident by anyone) that >>> states the commands we used to

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-17 05:52-0700 phil rosenberg wrote: > Hi Hazen and Alan > Did you see the email I sent last night saying you can tag a branch head, > then if the branch is deleted the tag remains? > This makes it trivial to delete branches but make sure they can be restored > providing nobody deletes

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-17 07:56-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/17/2014 2:41 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2014-08-16 22:37-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >>> >>> "git reflog doesn't traverse HEAD's ancestry at all. The reflog is an >>> ordered list of the commits that HEAD has pointed to: it's undo >>> history

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-17 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Alan, On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Ideas from the git gurus, please. I think the ongoing concern/discussion of deleting branches in git might be due to a lingering svn mindset vis a vis branching. I could be wrong, but I think deleting a branch in subversion also d

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-17 Thread phil rosenberg
l] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status On 8/17/2014 2:41 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2014-08-16 22:37-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >> "git reflog doesn't traverse HEAD's ancestry at all. The reflog is an >> ordered list of the commits that HEAD has point

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-17 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 8/17/2014 2:41 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2014-08-16 22:37-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >> "git reflog doesn't traverse HEAD's ancestry at all. The reflog is an >> ordered list of the commits that HEAD has pointed to: it's undo >> history for your repo. The reflog isn't part of the repo itsel

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-16 22:37-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/13/2014 3:16 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2014-08-13 10:28-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: >> >> >> That method does not seem fool-proof. See the expire subcommand for "git >> reflog". Furthermore, some of the PLplot branches are still active >>

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-16 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 8/13/2014 3:16 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2014-08-13 10:28-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > > That method does not seem fool-proof. See the expire subcommand for "git > reflog". Furthermore, some of the PLplot branches are still active > (e.g., test_cmake) and useful even though I will likely n

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-16 Thread phil rosenberg
grouped together. Phil From: Alan W. Irwin To: Hazen Babcock Cc: Plplot-devel mailing list Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2014, 19:03 Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status On 2014-08-15 22:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I do agree removal

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-15 22:40-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I do agree removal of all these weird (from the git point of view) > branches is an excellent future goal so long as we have a fool-proof > permanent way to resurrect those branches (even just for the purpose > of understanding the early history of P

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-15 21:19-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/13/2014 4:38 PM, phil rosenberg wrote: >> The impression I get from reading the docs and the post you linked Alan, is >> that there is a tendency for people coming from svn to forget that git is a >> distributed vcs. Perhaps some of these bran

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-15 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 8/13/2014 4:38 PM, phil rosenberg wrote: > The impression I get from reading the docs and the post you linked Alan, is > that there is a tendency for people coming from svn to forget that git is a > distributed vcs. Perhaps some of these branches would be more at home in the > various develop

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-13 Thread phil rosenberg
nd I'm a newbie to git, so feel free to ignore me completely :-) Phil From: Alan W. Irwin To: Hazen Babcock Cc: Plplot-devel mailing list Sent: Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 20:16 Subject: Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

Re: [Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-13 10:28-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > Sending this to a wider audience. In short, PLplot is now using git for > version control. > > http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/master/tree/ > > -Hazen > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion stat

[Plplot-devel] Fwd: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status

2014-08-13 Thread Hazen Babcock
Sending this to a wider audience. In short, PLplot is now using git for version control. http://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/master/tree/ -Hazen Original Message Subject: Re: [Plplot-core] git conversion status Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:24:27 -0400 From: Hazen Babcock