Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Schnell
Reading about the Git user permissions, it seems that you can access a git repository in (read-only) mode via ssh as long as you are a registered SourceForge.net user. So it seems the username in question will be your registered username, instead of anonymous. I created a sourceforge user

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-11 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2009/7/10 Michael Schnell mschn...@lumino.de: I do use this method with another git server via an url = git+ssh://anonym...@... prefix. Works great, some 10 times faster and much more reliable than http: If sourceforge does support this method (as the page suggests) I would need a read-only

[fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I have been received the following connection was closed error from SubVersion's SVN client. I have to constantly resume the connection after a timeout error and is very annoying. The SVN client affected is any 1.4x, 1.5x or 1.6x client supplied by Collabnet.

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: We are based in South Africa - I'm not sure where the svn2.freepascal.org server is located. Austria. If it helps you, we can also setup a git read only mirror on one of the European server. ___ fpc-devel maillist -

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Vincent Snijders
Florian Klaempfl schreef: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: We are based in South Africa - I'm not sure where the svn2.freepascal.org server is located. Austria. If it helps you, we can also setup a git read only mirror on one of the European server. If I clone that mirror, can I commit (is that

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Vincent Snijders schrieb: Florian Klaempfl schreef: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: We are based in South Africa - I'm not sure where the svn2.freepascal.org server is located. Austria. If it helps you, we can also setup a git read only mirror on one of the European server. If I clone that

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Austria. If it helps you, we can also setup a git read only mirror on one of the European server. I'm almost done cloning the FPC repository for Git usage. I'll place it on the GitHub server - same as was done for the Lazarus (trunk) repository. Difference being,

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders wrote: If I clone that mirror, can I commit (is that push?) changes to the svn repository? It is possible via a GitHub hosted repository, but I have never done that before - and I don't have write access to the FPC or Lazarus repositories. As far as I know you can also

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Florian Klaempfl wrote: With tricks, I think it's explained on the git-svn man/help? page. I believe, to push back to SubVersion you use: $ git svn dcommit Just make sure you have a linear development path (using rebase command), because SubVersion doesn't support parallel development

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Schnell
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Git This does talk about ssh. Same can be run through a firewall with an appropriate tool (e.g. Corkscrew). But only if the server site provides the appropriate receiver. I do use this method with another git server

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Michael Schnell wrote: unfortunately fpgui.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/fpgui is not able to accept http requests, so everybody behind a firewall is excluded. Ummm, seems SourceForge.net only support read-only access via the git protocol. This is not an issue with GitHub though - and where

Re: [fpc-devel] SVN connection was closed error

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Schnell
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb: We are based in South Africa - I'm not sure where the svn2.freepascal.org server is located. Austria. If it helps you, we can also setup a git read only mirror on one of the European server. unfortunately