[Axiom-developer] git in Axiom source download

2009-01-25 Thread daly
The Axiom source downloads from http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/downloads/axiom-jan2009-src.tgz contain not only the sources but a complete git tree. Thus, you can keep up to date with the silver development (experimental, pre-release) by doing the following: (get the sources and git

[Axiom-developer] GIT and Axiom

2007-05-20 Thread C Y
I went ahead and started looking at the GIT tutorials. First, my original assertion was incorrect - if handled correctly, FAQ DID change based on which branch was active. Based on this tutorial (http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html), here is what worked for me: git branc

[Axiom-developer] git repository

2007-05-20 Thread daly
the password for the git repository is 'linus'. ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] git-svn

2007-05-09 Thread Bill Page
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are you sure you can't commit. I see a commit to the daly branch Yes, the commit to the daly branch was a test to make sure that I had the correct permissions. It used the svn client directly. The git-svn connection does everything except commit. I'm still puzzled a

[Axiom-developer] git-svn

2007-05-09 Thread daly
>Are you sure you can't commit. >I see a commit to the daly branch Yes, the commit to the daly branch was a test to make sure that I had the correct permissions. It used the svn client directly. The git-svn connection does everything except commit. I'm still puzzled about it. Tim

Re: [Axiom-developer] git-svn

2007-05-08 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> Well checkout works and I can make changes. > I just cannot commit changes. I get > > Authorization failed: > MKACTIVITY of '/svnroot/axiom/!svn/act/.: > authorization failed (https://axiom.svn.sourceforget.net) at > /usr/bin/git-svn line 875 > > I'm open to suggestion about why I cannot c

[Axiom-developer] git-svn

2007-05-03 Thread daly
Well checkout works and I can make changes. I just cannot commit changes. I get Authorization failed: MKACTIVITY of '/svnroot/axiom/!svn/act/.: authorization failed (https://axiom.svn.sourceforget.net) at /usr/bin/git-svn line 875 I'm open to suggestion about why I cannot commit to SVN. t

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Friday, October 27, 2006 6:11 PM Gaby wrote: | > ... | > I would like to see changes Tim makes to axiom--silver--1 sent to | > this list or to the axiom-commits list. That helps keeping track | > of the changes. | > | | With the Tailor in place, I

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 6:11 PM Gaby wrote: > ... > I would like to see changes Tim makes to axiom--silver--1 sent to > this list or to the axiom-commits list. That helps keeping track > of the changes. > With the Tailor in place, I think this will automatically happen. Tailor creates the

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Friday, October 27, 2006 3:06 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: | > ... | > Bill Page wrote: | > > If you are able to identify and annonate the chunks of this | > > changeset that represent deletions, additions and those that | > > need further discussion, I t

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 3:06 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > ... > Bill Page wrote: > > If you are able to identify and annonate the chunks of this > > changeset that represent deletions, additions and those that > > need further discussion, I think that would be great. Except > > for the issue of

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> > I have fetsche /silver from SourceForge. I do not understand why > > you write about big differences. The biggest difference is that > > /silver contains .arch-ids subdirectories. AFAICS essential differences > > are tiny (869 lines). /silver has tla-1.1.tar.gz (IIRC removed > > from /trunk)

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Bill Page wrote: > On Friday, October 27, 2006 9:08 AM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Also, /trunk has added ChangeLog to some subdirectories. > > > > Maybe we need to discuss this ChangeLog policy. At one > point Gaby started adding per directory ChangeLogs, but > Tim has only every used one central

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread root
> I have fetsche /silver from SourceForge. I do not understand why > you write about big differences. The biggest difference is that > /silver contains .arch-ids subdirectories. AFAICS essential differences > are tiny (869 lines). /silver has tla-1.1.tar.gz (IIRC removed > from /trunk) and /trunk

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
On Friday, October 27, 2006 9:08 AM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > ... > Bill Page wrote: > > The reason I decided to leave /trunk was that in fact there > > are quite a large number of changes from /trunk to your new > > /silver and resolving these differences will take some time. > > If I just applied

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> Tim, > > On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:03 PM you wrote: > > > > I did a checkout of the sourceforge SVN root. > > I'll diff the SVN vs axiom--silver--1 so nothing gets lost. > > > > Ok. After a little messing things up, I think I now have a > working automatic procedure to update the SVN s

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-27 Thread Page, Bill
Tim, On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:03 PM you wrote: > > I did a checkout of the sourceforge SVN root. > I'll diff the SVN vs axiom--silver--1 so nothing gets lost. > Ok. After a little messing things up, I think I now have a working automatic procedure to update the SVN silver repository wit

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread root
Bill, I did a checkout of the sourceforge SVN root. I'll diff the SVN vs axiom--silver--1 so nothing gets lost. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Page, Bill
Onednesday, October 25, 2006 6:21 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Bill Page wrote: > > Well, the procedure that we agreed on (I think) was the Tim > > would be solely responsible for committing changes to Silver > > (axiom--silver-1 == SVN /trunk). Tim's preferred way to do this > > is entirely a man

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Bill Page wrote: > Well, the procedure that we agreed on (I think) was the Tim > would be solely responsible for committing changes to Silver > (axiom--silver-1 == SVN /trunk). Tim's preferred way to do this > is entirely a manual process - send him patches and copy the > axiom-developer list. Pers

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Page, Bill
On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 5:08 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: Bill Page wrote: > > ... Is deleteing and re-creating /trunk a safe and sensible > > thing to do? > > I am not sure if it is safe, but I wonder if it has any > advantages (like preserving history) compared to other options. > My plan w

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
First, I think we can agree that axiom--silver--1 is the master copy. (I haven't yet looked at it but it probably contains all the history since Tim started.) So in fact the history in the sourceforge or google mirror of silver are not too important. But anyway, if they the log data should b

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> One way to do this would be to first of all delete /trunk > from the repository and rebuild it from the current contents > of axiom--silver--1, but given the little I understand about > how SVN works, I am concerned that using svnadmin to delete > /trunk might have serious consequences for any br

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Page, Bill
On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:46 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > Doing a delete via svnadmin... I don't think that's the right way. > I am also worried about this. > ... > One problem with 'svn delete' applied to the trunk and then > recreation from new files is that you basically double the s

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
| One way to do this would be to first of all delete /trunk | from the repository and rebuild it from the current contents | of axiom--silver--1, but given the little I understand about | how SVN works, I am concerned that using svnadmin to delete | /trunk might have serious consequences for any b

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread root
Bill, fire up emacs, start a shell, do a diff -r --brief axiom--silver--1 sourceforge | grep -v svn | grep -v arch and you can see which files need to be copied. t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gaby, | | Since Tim has agreed to what I proposed below and no one | else has disagreed, I would like to plan for this but I | would appreciate your opinion first on how best to do it | without screwing up the SVN repository to badly. Specfically | what

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Page, Bill
Alfredo, You are right. I guess I will have to talk to him anyway since if we do this on SourceForge, we would still have the problem of updating Google the same say. I am quite sure that my current method of updating Google would not work properly if I were to try to delete SourceForge /trunk and

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Page, Bill
Gaby, Since Tim has agreed to what I proposed below and no one else has disagreed, I would like to plan for this but I would appreciate your opinion first on how best to do it without screwing up the SVN repository to badly. Specfically what we would be trying to do is to replace the existing /tru

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | SVN won't work for me so i have stopped trying to use it. | it should "just work" and it doesn't. Gaby likes it and it works | well for him so he uses it. Bill wrestled heroically with it. You did not look hard enough to see for whom else it is working.

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread root
> > > > > tla get axiom--silver--1 > > ... > > I hope it is not too hard for you to convince "tailor" to move > > the patches from Tim to SourceForge. > > ... > > If everyone agrees (and especially, Tim Daly agrees) then I would > delete the current SourceForge SVN /trunk and replace it with a

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread root
> > i've been unable to use SVN and could generate no interest in GIT. > > It's interesting to me, but I'm somewhat dismayed by the multitude of > systems we are going through. I would have been happy to standardize > on and learn Arch, but as it is no longer maintained that's not really > a viab

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
If everyone agrees (and especially, Tim Daly agrees) then I would delete the current SourceForge SVN /trunk and replace it with a copy of axiom--silver--1 that is automatically maintained in sync by running Tailor every night, like we currently do between SourceForge and Google and between the bui

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Bill Page
On October 25, 2006 5:18 AM Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > tla get axiom--silver--1 > ... > I hope it is not too hard for you to convince "tailor" to move > the patches from Tim to SourceForge. > ... If everyone agrees (and especially, Tim Daly agrees) then I would delete the current SourceForge SV

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Alfredo Portes
> You see, Tim applied patches to his Gold-to-be and now Silver is no longer in sync with that. Tim, mirror your Gold-to-be branch publicly and accept the offer of Bill to move your changes to sourceforge. How to move things from any other place back to Tim is another issue. But the mailing-list

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread C Y
--- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've been unable to use SVN and could generate no interest in GIT. It's interesting to me, but I'm somewhat dismayed by the multitude of systems we are going through. I would have been happy to standardize on and learn Arch, but as it is no longer maintained

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-25 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> I fetched silver from SourceForge. The last ChangeLog entry is from > 2006-09-14 (so it is somewhat old) and it has build problems (fixed > in build-improvenents): one has to remove by hand '.svn' subdirectories, > full Latex installation is needed. I fetched silver about two > weeks ago, but

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread root
currently gold exists in arch (axiom--main--1) and in the CVS on sourceforge and savannah. i had planned to keep the silver branch up to date at the root of SVN but SVN fails to work for me. i've been unable to use SVN and could generate no interest in GIT. i've created a silver branch in the arc

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | So far as I know, no one has been updating SourceForge SVN /trunk | aka. "silver" lately. It was originally created by converting the | CVS version of patch-49 at SourceForge to SVN using the SourceForge | CVS to SVN migration tool. Gaby branched bu

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Page
On October 24, 2006 9:26 PM Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > Bill Page wrote: > > On October 24, 2006 2:53 PM Jay Belanger wrote: > > > I could check out from google, but it was an older version that > > > had build problems. > > > > ??? > > > > To the best of my ability to make this true, the contents

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Bill Page wrote: > On October 24, 2006 2:53 PM Jay Belanger wrote: > > I could check out from google, but it was an older version that > > had build problems. > > ??? > > To the best of my ability to make this true, the contents of > the SVN repository on Google is identical the the SourceForge >

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Page
On October 24, 2006 2:53 PM Jay Belanger wrote: > > "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > >> but svn had stopped working for me, and git finally gave me > >> a working silver branch of Axiom, and quickly, too. > >> > > > > What was your problem svn? Did you try the Google Code mirror? >

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread Jay Belanger
"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... >> but svn had stopped working for me, and git finally gave me a >> working silver branch of Axiom, and quickly, too. >> > > What was your problem svn? Did you try the Google Code mirror? When I tried to check out from axiom-developer, I kept getting er

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Page
Jay, On October 24, 2006 10:49 AM you wrote: > > I hope I'm not just cluttering up the mail list with more talk > about revision control systems, You can't clutter up something that is already cluttered up... ;) > but svn had stopped working for me, and git finally gave me a > working silver br

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread Jay Belanger
I hope I'm not just cluttering up the mail list with more talk about revision control systems, but svn had stopped working for me, and git finally gave me a working silver branch of Axiom, and quickly, too. "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > But Mercurial is faster (and some say better

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-24 Thread root
> On October 23, 2006 7:11 PM Jay Belanger > > > > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > man, this git thing is blindingly fast. > > > > It certainly is. I just got a copy of silver Axiom using git. > > It seems as if git got the whole thing in less time than it took > > svn to get a few

RE: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-23 Thread Bill Page
On October 23, 2006 7:11 PM Jay Belanger > > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > man, this git thing is blindingly fast. > > It certainly is. I just got a copy of silver Axiom using git. > It seems as if git got the whole thing in less time than it took > svn to get a few files from the zip

Re: [Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-23 Thread Jay Belanger
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > man, this git thing is blindingly fast. It certainly is. I just got a copy of silver Axiom using git. It seems as if git got the whole thing in less time than it took svn to get a few files from the zip directory. Jay __

[Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-23 Thread root
man, this git thing is blindingly fast. as it says in the docs sometimes you don't think anything happened. i put up a git version of all of the current changes since --patch-50 you can get an axiom copy with: git clone [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/silver/silver password: (send email to [EMAIL

[Axiom-developer] GIT

2006-10-23 Thread root
Has anyone used Git in any project? I found this page: http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html where he states that: The Mozilla CVS repository was 2.7GB, imported to Subversion it grew to 8.2GB. Under Git, it shrunk to 450MB. Given that a Mozilla checkout is around 350MB, it's fai