Re: git fuse

2013-12-25 Thread Drew Northup
questions are Git questions or web-app design questions. The latter should be taken elsewhere.) -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-09-04 Thread Drew Northup
explanations it can be argued that the staging area metaphor (it implies _completed_ bundles ready to package into commits and ship--I envision shipping trailers being filled with _immutable_ boxes and attached to trucks) is actually harmful, but we can talk about that if there's a need. -- -Drew Northup

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-09-03 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Piotr Krukowiecki piotr.krukowie...@gmail.com wrote: Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com napisał: I agree with Junio. This effort is better spent making the documentation clearer and more succinct. The reality is that a user needs to build a model in their mind

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-09-03 Thread Drew Northup
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Felipe Contreras felipe.contre...@gmail.com writes: It has

Re: Officially start moving to the term 'staging area'

2013-08-29 Thread Drew Northup
something special about commits, trees, and content blobs. That's the real model (with some rough edges). Explaining what that has to do with distributed version control is the hard part. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-24 Thread Drew Northup
*format, const char *name) static bool format_append_arg(struct format_context *format, const char ***dst_argv, const char *arg) { - format-bufpos = 0; + format-buf[0] = format-bufpos = 0; while (arg) { char *next = strstr(arg, %(); -- Jonas Fonseca -- -- -Drew Northup

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-19 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Jonas Fonseca fons...@diku.dk wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote: Somehow this patch breaks the main view to not open the correct commit in diff view when enter is pressed. Back to the debugger... Does

Re: [PATCH 1/2] git_mkstemps: correctly test return value of open()

2013-07-18 Thread Drew Northup
| O_EXCL | O_RDWR, mode); - if (fd 0) + if (fd= 0) return fd; /* * Fatal error (EPERM, ENOSPC etc). -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-18 Thread Drew Northup
Somehow this patch breaks the main view to not open the correct commit in diff view when enter is pressed. Back to the debugger... On 07/18/2013 12:51 AM, Drew Northup wrote: Since c7d67ab running tig with no options has failed with the error tig: No revisions match the given arguments

Re: [PATCH] TIG: Implement mkstemps() work-around for platforms lacking it

2013-07-17 Thread Drew Northup
license. On 07/09/2013 11:33 AM, Drew Northup wrote: The function mkstemps() isn't available in all libc implementations. In glibc it first became available in 2.11, so platforms such as RHEL 5 Slackware 13 lack it. This is likely true of many non-LINUX platforms as well. This fixes breakage

[PATCH] TIG: Fix to reinstate proper operation with no arguments

2013-07-17 Thread Drew Northup
' This fix works by teaching tig that when it is supplied with a blank field in the source argument buffer that it should skip over that field and continue instead of copying the previous field value into the destination buffer a second time. github issue # 167 Signed-off-by: Drew Northup n1xim.em

[PATCH] TIG: Implement mkstemps() work-around for platforms lacking it

2013-07-09 Thread Drew Northup
with name as suffix. Signed-off-by: Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com --- This work-around is taken from Git and was inspired by code in libiberty. It is presumed that this isn't a problem due to compatible license terms. A (virtually identical) version of this available in https://github.com

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

2013-04-17 Thread Drew Northup
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Drew Northup wrote: This is unobtrusive yet to the point. I agree with the spirit. [...] --- a/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitweb.conf.txt @@ -55,7 +55,8

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
that it should be mentioned somewhere in gitweb.conf.txt then (as it currently is not). -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com writes: + Note that the GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM system-wide configuration file is + only used for instances that lack per-instance configuration file. + You can use

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
of the common system-wide configuration file, the fallback system-wide configuration file and the per-instance configuration file -- 1.8.0 -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM is for backward compatibility

2013-04-16 Thread Drew Northup
Forgot the S-O-B... On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Jakub Narębski jna...@gmail.com wrote: Drew: gitweb(1) or gitweb.conf(5) solution is more involved, so perhaps something like that? That or: (or both I suppose

Re: [PATCH] gitweb/INSTALL: Simplify description of GITWEB_CONFIG_SYSTEM

2013-04-15 Thread Drew Northup
, starting at 2.x and no longer have the mental roller coaster problem at all.) As I'm the one that complained loudly enough to get this change to be made in the first place I'd appreciate being kept in the loop in this series. -- -Drew Northup

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15)

2013-04-15 Thread Drew Northup
on the eyes it fails to note why we don't just dump our idiosyncratic way of doing things and just make the system-wide defaults act individually. This information is useful to system administrators, as it explains what is actually going on. -- -Drew Northup

Re: inotify to minimize stat() calls

2013-02-19 Thread Drew Northup
. That information will tell us more clearly what, if anything, it is worth keeping a cache of and what form that cache should take. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59

Re: [PATCH v2 02/15] user-manual: Update for receive.denyCurrentBranch=refuse

2013-02-18 Thread Drew Northup
+in linkgit:git-config[1] for details. This looks safe to me, with the minor nit that ofthe (of the) isn't one word. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe

Re: feature request

2013-02-18 Thread Drew Northup
and Shibboleth. SAML is a standard and is supported (in whole or in part) by a lot of systems and SSOs out there. Given the way that systems like that work I don't see Git authenticating that way any time soon (but I've been surprised before). -- -Drew Northup

Re: Anybody know a website with up-to-date git documentation?

2013-02-17 Thread Drew Northup
Author: Junio C Hamano ju...@kernel.org Date: Wed Aug 31 00:49:25 2011 + Autogenerated manpages for v1.7.7-rc0-72-g4b5ea I haven't bothered to plunge and expunge my local repo yet as I never actually made use of those branches. -- -Drew Northup

Re: Lockless Refs? (Was [PATCH] refs: do not use cached refs in repack_without_ref)

2013-01-21 Thread Drew Northup
actually consist of moving the reference to the item's own allocation marker into a trashcan to be cleaned up after later. In other words, I'd not advise planning on directory deletes always being atomic nor always not being atomic. -- -Drew Northup

Re: Motd message on git cloning

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
on much of anything around here, but I cannot see this making much sense in the big picture of things. If you wanted to make this change to something more like Google's repo wrapper script that would make at least some modicum of sense to me. -- -Drew Northup

Re: Auto-repo-repair

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
). can we introduce a new or extend existing transports to support that ? How would the broken repository be sure of what it is missing to request it from the other side? -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John

Re: git-reset man page

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
) and other places where _only_ a single path was acceptable. Should that fail to be the case then there would be a good argument for changing the affected instances of paths to path in the documentation. (I know of no other good way to pluralize path myself.) -- -Drew Northup

Re: Auto-repo-repair

2012-11-18 Thread Drew Northup
doesn't suffer from this recursivity problem. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body

Re: [BUG] gitweb: XSS vulnerability of RSS feed

2012-11-13 Thread Drew Northup
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 01:55:46PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:28 PM, glpk xypron xypron.g...@gmx.de wrote: Gitweb can be used to generate an RSS feed. Arbitrary tags can be inserted into the XML

Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] push: update remote tags only with force

2012-11-13 Thread Drew Northup
it is an exercise left to the reviewer to find that you're talking about this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/208354 Cheers. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS

Re: splitting off shell test framework

2012-11-12 Thread Drew Northup
/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201591 -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message

Re: [OT] How to get the discussion details via notes

2012-10-31 Thread Drew Northup
push that kind of thing out to a remote repo. Does that help? -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git

Re: git push tags

2012-10-29 Thread Drew Northup
complicated all of this would be or not? [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/208473 -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from

Re: git push tags

2012-10-29 Thread Drew Northup
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Jeff King p...@peff.net wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 07:21:52AM -0400, Drew Northup wrote: I would have expected git to at least complain about updating an annotated tag with another annotated tag. But it actually uses the same fast-forward rule, just

Re: git push tags

2012-10-28 Thread Drew Northup
be game for that too...) -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to majord

Re: git push tags

2012-10-26 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Angelo Borsotti angelo.borso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Drew, --Adding for clarity: On Thurs, Oct 25, 2012 at 17:16 EDT, Drew Northup wrote: Changing the tag in the local repository is a tag modification operation. Pushing that change to a remote repository

Re: git push tags

2012-10-26 Thread Drew Northup
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Kacper Kornet drae...@pld-linux.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 05:16:00PM -0400, Drew Northup wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Angelo Borsotti angelo.borso...@gmail.com wrote: Are remote repositories less protected than the local ones? I think

Re: git push tags

2012-10-26 Thread Drew Northup
mail as the source for the cover page? -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message

Re: git push tags

2012-10-25 Thread Drew Northup
argument and Git is a computer program, not a philosopher. It is not the job of the machine to prevent the user from shooting himself in the foot when he clearly expressed an interest in doing so. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable

Re: Where should git-prompt.sh be installed?

2012-10-24 Thread Drew Northup
-prompt(1) Sensible? Does the LSB provide any guidance? If not, or if such guidance isn't helpful, I say that looks reasonable. What I'd like to know is why we are saying copy when symlinking is likely to be more easily maintainable? (Less chance to screw up.) -- -Drew Northup

Re: looking for suggestions for managing a tree of server configs

2012-10-21 Thread Drew Northup
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:34 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Drew Northup wrote: On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:57 AM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Sat, 13 Oct 2012, Junio C Hamano wrote: da...@lang.hm writes: today I have just a single git tree covering everything, and I make

Re: git fetch documentation problem or bug

2012-10-21 Thread Drew Northup
are different? git fetch $from $branch... VS git fetch $from $branch: I strongly prefer EXPLICITLY setting tracking than expecting some extreme syntactic nuance to quietly do it for me now and confuse the heck out of me later. -- -Drew Northup

Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-21 Thread Drew Northup
expand them as zip archives and diff what's inside of them. The text in particular is stored as XML. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from

Re: looking for suggestions for managing a tree of server configs

2012-10-20 Thread Drew Northup
except for a couple of lines) David, Is there any particular reason you aren't using etckeeper? -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from this list

Re: rm and add, but not rename, of identical files

2012-10-11 Thread Drew Northup
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:47 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: Drew Northup drew.nort...@maine.edu writes: # Untracked files: # (use git add file... to include in what will be committed) # # rc.d/rc2.d/S08iptables # rc.d/rc3.d/S08iptables # rc.d/rc4.d/S08iptables

rm and add, but not rename, of identical files

2012-10-10 Thread Drew Northup
I use etckeeper on some of my systems, backed by Git. On a system still using a SYSV style init I recently modified my iptables settings, changing which runlevels would stop/start the firewall. [root@drew-northup ~]# etckeeper vcs status # On branch master # Changes not staged for commit

Re: Git diff-file bug?

2012-10-03 Thread Drew Northup
status internally runs an equivalent of --refresh before it goes to find changes, so after running it, until that something smudges the inode data behind your back, gitk will not be confused. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable

Re: [PATCH] Retry HTTP requests on SSL connect failures

2012-10-02 Thread Drew Northup
setup then applying TCP/IP like back-off semantics is the right way to go. The only reason the network stack isn't doing it for you is because the load balancers wait for the SSL/TLS start before dumping the excess (exceeding of license) SSL connections. -- -Drew Northup

Re: [PATCH] Retry HTTP requests on SSL connect failures

2012-10-01 Thread Drew Northup
apply much of anywhere else. (They have done presentations publicly, which are archived on the 'net, about how they do things.) -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59

Re: DWIM .git repository discovery

2012-09-27 Thread Drew Northup
the trick can be opted in for a command subset where it makes sense to do so. I would recommend stopping now then. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59

Re: Gitweb characters not encoded/decoded properly

2012-09-18 Thread Drew Northup
screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/06skV.png Joseph, What character set is that supposed to be in? In addition, if it is UTF-(something), what code segment are you using? -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John

[PATCH] Documentation/git-blame.txt: --follow is a NO-OP

2012-09-18 Thread Drew Northup
Make note that while the --follow option is accepted by git blame it does nothing. Signed-off-by: Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com --- Documentation/git-blame.txt | 5 - 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt

Re: [PATCH 66/66] Use imperative form in help usage to describe an action

2012-08-22 Thread Drew Northup
of off hand is that the documentation is describing what the program options do to the user (a different audience)--which explains why the text wasn't in imperative form to begin with. -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable

Re: FW: Git

2012-08-19 Thread Drew Northup
this or reference a site or page that discusses it? Jean, If you take a close look at the git.git repo itself you will notice that several different (and at times totally non-overlapping) branches are available. The same option is available for other projects as well. -- -Drew Northup

Re: Installing GIT Server

2012-08-10 Thread Drew Northup
me with this? Raj, You may find that using Gitolite [1] (and following the documentation that comes with it) to be a good solution to what you are trying to do. (1): https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/ -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed

Android Replies to Git List getting rejected

2012-08-07 Thread Drew Northup
this from the webmail interface in the hopes that it goes through.) Am I the ONLY ONE seeing this? -- -Drew Northup -- As opposed to vegetable or mineral error? -John Pescatore, SANS NewsBites Vol. 12 Num. 59 -- To unsubscribe from

Re: PROPFIND 405 with git-http-backend and Smart HTTP

2012-08-05 Thread Drew Northup
outside of the base Document Root all sorts of interesting possibilities for failure become available. I am pretty sure that this isn't a Git problem, it is a CGI hosting / configuration problem. An Apache-centric list may be able to help you better and is likely a better place to ask. -- -Drew

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-29 Thread Drew Northup
but they are not a good solution for installing client code into a webspace on a shared server (yes, heresy, I know). For this common use case Git is not a half-bad ADDITION to the toolkit of a website development and maintenance team. -- -Drew Northup

Re: ninja build

2012-07-25 Thread Drew Northup
it be a productive use of the community's time? So many platforms include standard varieties of MAKE and it is well supported by the autotools framework. Tons of people know how to maintain it. So it may sound cool, but that alone does not make it a good idea. -- -Drew Northup