Hi Jim Good luck with the restoration. If this helps for the future then as a windows user you can get 1 TB of OneDrive space as part of an Office 365 subscription. I basically symlinked my Documents folder into my OneDrive folder so that everything I do gets continually synced with the cloud.
Anyway, as far as git is concerned I use Git within Cygwin even for my Windows development. I always feel the Linux environment that goes along with this gives the best development environment. You could probably get an identical setup by using the new Bash on Ubuntu on Windows feature if you are using Windows 10. Windows now ships with the ability to install a native but stripped down (command line only) version of Ubuntu within Windows. This runs native Linux executables and you have access to apt-get so it's pretty handy! Phil On 21 February 2017 at 21:45, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: > To Jim, Phil, and Arjen: > > On 2017-02-20 00:38-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> I need your help to sort out git. Long story short, I had a disk > > corruption on the VM that I was doing my development work and had to > recover my work. I manage to get my wingdi driver recovered from the > smoking heap. > > @Jim: > > My sympathies concerning your hardware troubles. I am especially > sensitive to that issue because I just went through a hardware scare > myself (spent a lot of yesterday running hardware tests when I ran > into the *.pyc corruption issue). But amazingly this 9-year-old > hardware (with an ASUS motherboard which might be the reason for this > longevity) still passes all hardware tests, and I have concluded (with > a fair amount of confidence) that the *.pyc corruption issue must be > due to some Python bug. So I plan to keep using this hardware for > a while longer. > >> Unfortunately, I appear to be having problems with the git > > repository on SourceForge and I am not sure of the cause—I cannot even > clone from SourceForge. > > @Jim, Phil, and Arjen: > > I used the git SF server just this morning with no issues. Also, for > the reasons discussed in README.developers you should avoid all gui > versions or "enhanced" versions of git (i.e., try to stick as much as > possible to the real thing). Bearing those constraints in mind, that > file recommends <https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit> for Windows > users, but I just discovered from looking at that site that it has > been obsoleted and msysgit developers now recommend using the "Git for > Windows" <https://git-for-windows.github.io/> version of git instead. > (I confirmed from that website it considers itself light-weight > [check!] and it does have a command-line version [check!]). So please > give the command-line version of that project a try, and let us know > whether it works well for you (which would allow us to recommend that > Windows version of git in our README.developers file). > > Alan > __________________________ > Alan W. Irwin > > Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, > University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). > > Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state > implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time > Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting > software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project > (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); > and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). > __________________________ > > Linux-powered Science > __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
