Migrating from svn to git

2009-02-12 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
I've been keeping my home directory in Subversion for about 5 years now, and I am now interested in switching over to git. I'll be breaking up a single massive svn repository into a collection of smaller repositories, corresponding to subdirectories of the original repository. I've determined that

Re: Version control system better suted than SVN

2009-04-19 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
ctory. * Bzr supports history-less checkouts. See http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/index.html#getting-a-lightweight-checkout They also discuss other strategies for saving disk space when cloning repositories. -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition

Re: Best practice for Documents directory: looking for comments on my current setup

2009-04-19 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
hiving (of the Documents directory) and actual project > management. This makes me wonder if I'm trying too hard to use one tool > here. Maybe there are other tools to be considered? I use git for all of these things. There are a few places where I feel

Re: Version control system better suted than SVN

2009-04-19 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 02:55:28PM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > > * Git keeps a local repository with full history in your working > >directory. This means at least two copies of everything are &g

Re: Best practice for Documents directory: looking for comments on my current setup

2009-04-20 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:59 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > > > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:40 +0200, W. Kaplan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just recently started giving version control systems

Re: Git merge disappointment

2010-04-24 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 19:31 +0100, chombee wrote: > I'd like to keep a text file in my homedir called 'notes' which contains > all my notes to myself, and track this file and sync it between > computers using git. I write the file in markdown syntax and each new > entry usually begins with a header

Re: Git merge disappointment

2010-04-26 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
ight be a great help in your specific case. http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/libxdiff-and-patience-diff-td1452272i40.html --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute

Re: Preserving timestamps with git

2010-05-27 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:44 +0200, Jakob Voss wrote: > Thanks, this will be helpful for special repositories that need to > preserve file permissions. But as long as I use git for replication I > prefer to have the timestamp metadata directly in the commit as if I > would commit everytime I cha

Re: using git to version large files w/o checking them in

2010-10-02 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 00:16 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > > Would bzr checkout --lightweight do the trick? > > I think that's the same as git clone --shared -- still has all the > overhead of needing to check the files in, in the first place. It&

Backing up Evolution files in Git

2011-03-09 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
r and addressbook data live in .local/share/evolution, so it looks like I'm going to have to migrate that into git. Before I do so, does anyone know of better ways to keep evolution backed up in git? (I'm interested in backing up the non-email stuff.) --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom

Re: Python script for automatic synchronization based on inotify

2011-03-14 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
k. You can run `git rebase --interactive` again (on the rebased tree) if you spot errors. --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ _

Re: may be something like 3.0 (git-annex) source format?

2012-01-24 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 15:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > I just thought to check with you on either the idea itself sounds any > > reasonable... > > > > in the frame of NeuroDebian we package "data" packages which are usually > > quite large in size... there were numerou

Re: Please add (upstream) changelog to vcsh

2012-02-18 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 14:20 +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:53, Thomas Koch wrote: > > Just entered Debian Testing: git2cl > > I tried that on sid, but I really don't like the output. It's a > firehose, not a changelog. Yes, in general one wants to create git commit m

Re: dvcs-autosync+git is broken by design

2012-03-04 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 20:08 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:19:25 + > Adam Spiers wrote: > > I have not yet used dvcs-autosync in anger; > what do you mean? It's a stretch from a military idiom. To say that a soldier "never fired a shot in anger" means that he never f