Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

2015-10-07 Thread Álvaro Jurado
Yes, it has no sense in Plan 9, I know, thanks. I was talking about ape lib because is what was used to port git in my case. I even found a Rob's old mail answering a similar question saying that it's a matter of file server (I can't remember original question). And there are many debates around

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

2015-10-07 Thread Álvaro Jurado
Source should be in the same site, just add /files to hostname and look for tgz. I think 1.5.8.3, last year version. It was built with gcc 4.8 port for plan9 (static). You'll need some kind of ksh to use it, git has many shell scripts. It works with go get but sometimes it fails miserably

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

2015-10-07 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 7 October 2015 at 16:17, Álvaro Jurado wrote: > because it has an strong dependency of fsync to freeze sha keys in fs > during fetching. And that is just a dummy in Plan 9 ape fsync causes any operating system buffers in the "buffer cache" to be flushed to "disk" (not