Re: [Plplot-devel] Trying to understand how git workflow for CMake is enforced

2014-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-15 20:45-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/15/2014 2:53 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Hi Hazen: >> >> Earlier today I sent an e-mail to Brad King, the CMake git guru (with >> CC to you to keep you fully informed) asking how they implemented the >> enforcement hooks in their git repo to ma

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trying to understand how git workflow for CMake is enforced

2014-08-16 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/15/2014 2:53 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> Hi Hazen: >> >> Earlier today I sent an e-mail to Brad King, the CMake git guru (with >> CC to you to keep you fully informed) asking how they implemented the >> enforcement hooks in their git rep

Re: [Plplot-devel] exit() calls

2014-08-16 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Hazen Babcock wrote: > On 8/14/2014 6:00 PM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: >> Hi Hazen >> The approach of just don't call exit and see what happens was also my first >> thought. Then the first case i looked at was plscmap0n, which attempts to >> set the number of colours

Re: [Plplot-devel] exit() calls

2014-08-16 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Okay, well that seems like a quorum then. I'll start putting it into action. Interesting that for Cairo it says it is safe to use an object if in error state. Wonder if errors get cleared at any point. Phil -Original Message- From: "Hezekiah M. Carty" Sent: ‎16/‎08/‎2014 12:09 To: "Haz

Re: [Plplot-devel] Trying to understand how git workflow for CMake is enforced

2014-08-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2014-08-16 06:50-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > I agree with Hazen here - adding hooks on day one seems overkill for > the project. [...] > Given that the project and developers are overall new to git I think > it would be premature to start stacking automated restrictions on top > of our use

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

2014-08-16 Thread phil rosenberg
Hi Alan I just had a play with this. So even if tags can be deleted, this is fine so long as nobody deletes them. So I just tested to find that deleting a branch does not delete the tags on that branch so the following sequence allows you to tag the head of a branch, delete the branch then resto

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] Trying to understand how git workflow for CMake is enforced

2014-08-16 Thread Hazen Babcock
On 8/16/2014 1:50 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2014-08-16 06:50-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > >> I agree with Hazen here - adding hooks on day one seems overkill for >> the project. [...] >> Given that the project and developers are overall new to git I think >> it would be premature to start s

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 >>