Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Stillwell
On 15-02-09, Tom Roche wrote: For the gory details, see https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh/issues/147 but my request boils down to this: I'm using `vcsh` to VC files in $HOME (et al), but 1. I want to leverage the goodness of `vcsh`/`mr` and have repos for bash, emacs, ssh, etc 2. I also want

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Mark Stillwell wrote: > Note that the version of vcsh that is packaged with some versions of ubuntu > has a bug in it, so that it will look for hooks in > $XDH_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-enabled rather than > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-enabled. The easiest fix is just

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Stillwell
On 15-02-10, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Mark Stillwell wrote: Note that the version of vcsh that is packaged with some versions of ubuntu has a bug in it, so that it will look for hooks in $XDH_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-enabled rather than $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Stillwell
On 15-02-10, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Mark Stillwell wrote: Note that the version of vcsh that is packaged with some versions of ubuntu has a bug in it, so that it will look for hooks in $XDH_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-enabled rather than $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Mark Stillwell wrote: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vcsh/+bug/1352280 Just poked around. In Ubuntu-speak, I will need to prepare a SRU to get this fixed. Sounds easy enough to do in the next day or two. Richard

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Stillwell
On 15-02-10, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Mark Stillwell wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vcsh/+bug/1352280 Just poked around. In Ubuntu-speak, I will need to prepare a SRU to get this fixed. Sounds easy enough to do in the next day or two. Cool.

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Roche
While I appreciate everyone's assistance ... you seem to be answering someone else's question :-( I know from reading what little I have about this matter (generally, VCing $HOME content) that a lotta people, for a long time, has been concerned with what I would call "the output side" (or, tem

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Vincent Demeester
Hi, On February 10, 2015 7:00:07 PM GMT+01:00, Tom Roche wrote: > >but I guess I should've spelled it out: > >1. I create repo=vcsh-bash to VC files including ~/.bash* . I add a >~/README.rst to make it available to its remote/web repo, then commit >and push. > >2. I create repo=vcsh-emacs to VC

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread John Whitley
Tom Roche wrote: > Unfortunately, that's not my question/problem[2]: I'm asking about the > *input* side, or *pre-commit*: how can I get a README into the root of a > vcsh-based repo (to make it available for a remote/web repo) *without* > putting it into ${HOME} pre-commit? Tom, if I understand y

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Mark Stillwell
Hi Tom, I don't know that this would address your problem, but have you considered just using normal git to create your repo in a subdirectory? So you might have a project/vcsh-bash directory which is a git repo containing .bashrc and your readme. On 10 Feb 2015 18:03, "Tom Roche" wrote: > > Whi

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Roche
Vincent Demeester Tue Feb 10 19:30:08 CET 2015 (rearranged) [1] > The downsides of this approach is that you have to create/edit the README > "outside" ~/ and vcsh (in another working copy). That does *not* sound like a problem to me. In fact, (IIUC) I originally proposed doing something like t

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Roche
Mark Stillwell Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:41:41 + [1] > have you considered just using normal git to create your repo in a > subdirectory? Yes, originally I did this with subdirs and symlinks ... which got whacked by changes to `git` as mentioned, e.g., here[2]. thanks anyway, Tom Roche [1]: ht

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Richard Hartmann
I am still not 100% sure if I understand what you want. Another option thrown into the ring, without being sure if that would work for you: You could have one branch with and one without README.rst and have one rebase on the other automagically. As an aside: If you have more than one instance of

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Tom Roche
TomRoche 9 Feb 2015 ~1730 EST [1] >>> I thought I could do something like >>> $ mkdir -p ~/info/software/vcsh/fake_repositories/vcsh-bash-fake/ >>> # edit ~/info/software/vcsh/fake_repositories/vcsh-bash-fake/README.rst >>> $ pushd ~/info/software/vcsh/fake_repositories/vcsh-bash-fake/ >>>

Re: newbie: "fake" README for remote of a `vcsh` repo?

2015-02-10 Thread Vincent Demeester
Re, Tom Roche writes: Vincent Demeester Tue Feb 10 19:30:08 CET 2015 (rearranged) [1] The downsides of this approach is that you have to create/edit the README "outside" ~/ and vcsh (in another working copy). That does *not* sound like a problem to me. In fact, (IIUC) I originally proposed