Re: Git's Perl scripts can fail if user is configured for perlbrew

2015-01-01 Thread Ben Aveling
On 29/12/14 09:36, Randy J. Ray wrote: I don't know enough about the overall git ecosystem to know if this would have an adverse effect on anything else (in particular, Windows compatibility, but then Windows probably isn't having this issue in the first place). Perlbrew doesn't support Windo

Re: [RFC/PATCH] fsck: do not canonicalize modes in trees we are checking

2014-10-19 Thread Ben Aveling
On 16/10/14 11:20, Jeff King wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:46:19AM +1100, Ben Aveling wrote: I have a corrupt repository, and every time I run fsck, it reports one corrupt object, then stops. Corrupt how? Bit-corruption, or a malformed object? Bit-corruption, in multiple places. If you

fsck option to remove corrupt objects - why/why not?

2014-10-15 Thread Ben Aveling
On 14/10/2014 19:21, Jeff King wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 09:37:27AM +1100, Ben Aveling wrote: A question about fsck - is there a reason it doesn't have an option to delete bad objects? If the objects are reachable, then deleting them would create other big problems (i.e., we wou

Re: [RFC/PATCH] fsck: do not canonicalize modes in trees we are checking

2014-10-12 Thread Ben Aveling
Hi, A question about fsck - is there a reason it doesn't have an option to delete bad objects? Regards, Ben On 24/09/2014 02:30, Jeff King wrote: [-cc Kirill, as his address seem out-of-date] On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:23:43PM +, Edward Thomson wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:47:51

Re: [PATCH] wording fixes in the user manual and glossary

2014-05-26 Thread Ben Aveling
On 25/05/14 20:37, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: How about this: Eventually the upstream developer will do additional work in their repository. Creating new commits and advancing the branches to point at the new commits. The second sentence needs a verb. Maybe something along the lines o

Re: Bisect needing to be at repo top-level?

2013-09-19 Thread Ben Aveling
On 19/9/13 23:15, Ben Aveling wrote: On 18/9/13 05:20, Junio C Hamano wrote: Lukas Fleischer writes: why do we allow running git-checkout(1) from a subdirectory? We may want to check the condition and forbid such a checkout. It would probably make sense. It might also make sense to relax

Re: Bisect needing to be at repo top-level?

2013-09-19 Thread Ben Aveling
On 18/9/13 05:20, Junio C Hamano wrote: Lukas Fleischer writes: why do we allow running git-checkout(1) from a subdirectory? We may want to check the condition and forbid such a checkout. It would probably make sense. It might also make sense to relax the check in git bisect somewhat. Cur

Re: Files excluded but not ignored

2013-02-01 Thread Ben Aveling
On 31/01/2013 3:17 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Jason Wenger writes: Trying to start up discussion of whether there would be merit to a "half- ignored" state -- Files which are excluded from tracking, but which still show in git status, and which are removed by git clean. I see no merit for "ign

Re: git send-email should not allow 'y' for in-reply-to

2013-01-11 Thread Ben Aveling
On 12/01/2013 10:54 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: Antoine Pelisse writes: I would simply go for: What Message-ID are you replying to (if any)? If I don't know what to answer, I would definitely not say y/yes/n/no, but press enter directly. Sounds sensible (even though technically you reply t

Unexpected behaviour when trying to merge two new repositories.

2012-12-14 Thread Ben Aveling
Hi, I have a directory of files that have been copied between different machines, and then drifted apart. I was trying to merge the different versions into a single unified repository. I succeeded, but I had to navigate though, and recover from, what seems to me to be counter-intuitive be