Remove empty Mercurial tag commits?

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Marius Gedminas
The current Git conversion has a lot of empty commits like https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/e675d947a7ec993176262a888bfde5702427056d Are they of any use to anyone? Can they be stripped away when doing the final conversion ('git filter-branch --prune-empty' might be helpful here)? Marius

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 04:42:31PM +1300, Jan Larres wrote: James McCoy james...@jamessan.com: $ git clone https://github.com/vim/vim ... $ cd vim $ du -hs .git . 685M.git 47M . $ git gc --aggressive ... $ du -hs .git . 34M .git 47M . The Google Code to

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie John Szakmeister
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Manuel Ortega mannyvim...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] While git gc will *sometimes* produce similar results to git gc --aggressive, it very, very often in my experience does not. This is perhaps one of those cases. --aggressive is really about letting Git go back

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Alejandro Exojo
El Thursday 26 March 2015, Christian Brabandt escribió: Am 2015-03-25 21:48, schrieb Bram Moolenaar: Christian Brabandt wrote: [...] @Bram, perhaps it is necessary to split the runtime directory into a separate github repository, so they could be easier handled. How is that

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Kana Natsuno wrote: On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 5:00:19 AM UTC+9, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Isn't there a way to clone only up to some time ago, e.g., the 7.4 release? I rather leave this a decision on the user side than on the server side (meaning that history would be lost forever).

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Marius Gedminas wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 04:42:31PM +1300, Jan Larres wrote: James McCoy james...@jamessan.com: $ git clone https://github.com/vim/vim ... $ cd vim $ du -hs .git . 685M.git 47M . $ git gc --aggressive ... $ du -hs .git . 34M .git

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Manuel Ortega
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Peter Aronoff telemac...@arpinum.org wrote: On Friday, March 27th, 2015 at 9:11AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Kana Natsuno wrote: On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 5:00:19 AM UTC+9, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Isn't there a way to clone only up to some time ago,

Re: [Patch] Build Vim on Mac OS X with Privately Installed Python (src/configure.in)

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Kazunobu Kuriyama
On Mar 27, 2015, at 13:53, Francisco Lopes francisco.mailing.li...@oblita.com wrote: Em sexta-feira, 27 de março de 2015 01:51:05 UTC-3, Francisco Lopes escreveu: Em sexta-feira, 27 de março de 2015 01:44:37 UTC-3, Francisco Lopes escreveu: Em quinta-feira, 26 de março de 2015 00:10:51

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Peter Aronoff
On Friday, March 27th, 2015 at 9:11AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Kana Natsuno wrote: On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 5:00:19 AM UTC+9, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Isn't there a way to clone only up to some time ago, e.g., the 7.4 release? I rather leave this a decision on the user side than on

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Peter Aronoff
On Friday, March 27th, 2015 at 9:47AM, Manuel Ortega wrote: No, that's not the case. You can just do a regular git pull. I do this all the time with other repos that I shallowly clone, such as Homebrew. If you *want* to pull in the full history after starting with a shallow clone, then you

Re: log messages slightly corrupted in new github repo

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Manuel Ortega wrote: I cloned the new testing repo from github. When I do git log and scroll through the results, I find that multi-line log messages that look fine in the hg repo are a bit mangled in the github repo. For example, a line starting with Problem: that has a description

Re: [Patch] Build Vim on Mac OS X with Privately Installed Python (src/configure.in)

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Francisco Lopes
Em sexta-feira, 27 de março de 2015 10:52:22 UTC-3, Kazunobu Kuriyama escreveu: On Mar 27, 2015, at 13:53, Francisco Lopes francisco.mailing.li...@oblita.com wrote: Em sexta-feira, 27 de março de 2015 01:51:05 UTC-3, Francisco Lopes escreveu: Em sexta-feira, 27 de março de 2015

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Ben Fritz
I'd just like to point out that all you githeads arguing over the various different options on pull and fetch and whether they break or keep your repository intact, are making me VERY sad about losing Mercurial. Bram, is there a chance you'd be willing to also push to a Mercurial mirror using

Re: Bug with renderoptions

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Hi zeug! On Do, 26 Mär 2015, z...@tuxproject.de wrote: Hmm, it should; still, as I only replaced one image file, I wonder which one is responsible for the windowbar itself...? Actually, I was wrong. This worked. It justed didn't look different enough, that I didn't notice. Best, Christian

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Ben Fritz
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 11:28:42 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote: If I have understood correctly, it's easy enough to setup a mirror somewhere else. If that is straightforward, I could set it up for github to mirror somewhere else (bitbucket?) Yes, it's pretty easy to set up

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Ben! On Fr, 27 Mär 2015, Ben Fritz wrote: I'd just like to point out that all you githeads arguing over the various different options on pull and fetch and whether they break or keep your repository intact, are making me VERY sad about losing Mercurial.

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Benjamin Fritz
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net wrote: Bram, is there a chance you'd be willing to also push to a Mercurial mirror using one of the various bridge methods, either automatically via repository hook or manually when you push patches to the public repo? I

Re: [PATCH] Fix javascript syntax highlight

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie José Monteiro
Have you contacted the javascript syntax maintainer? Best, Christian -- Der einzige Unterschied zwischen dem Heiligen und dem Sünder ist, daß jeder Heilige eine Vergangenheit und jeder Sünder eine Zukunft hat. -- Oscar Wilde I simply saw a problem and fixed it, it was

Re: [PATCH] Fix javascript syntax highlight

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Hi José! On Fr, 27 Mär 2015, José Monteiro wrote: Have you contacted the javascript syntax maintainer? I simply saw a problem and fixed it, it was also my first contribution so I wasn't aware of the proper channels for this type of problem. Sorry, if I sounded like scaring you away.

Re: expand(%) and utf-8 characters in directory names

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Charles Campbell
Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Charles! On Fr, 27 Mär 2015, Charles Campbell wrote: Bram Moolenaar wrote: Charles Campbell wrote: I tried a directory named josé and found that netrw wasn't handling it well. One of the reasons is expand(%), which is used to get the full path. However,

Re: [PATCH] Fix javascript syntax highlight

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie José Monteiro
sexta-feira, 27 de Março de 2015 às 17:02:22 UTC, Christian Brabandt escreveu: Hi José! On Fr, 27 Mär 2015, José Monteiro wrote: Have you contacted the javascript syntax maintainer? I simply saw a problem and fixed it, it was also my first contribution so I wasn't aware of the

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Ben Fritz wrote: I'd just like to point out that all you githeads arguing over the various different options on pull and fetch and whether they break or keep your repository intact, are making me VERY sad about losing Mercurial. Keep in mind that 95% of the users will only use the very

Re: To keep good projects on github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Taro Muraoka wrote: I suggest to give write access permission of vim organization to some reliable users. It is important to act for PR on github. PR becomes a cause of flaming sometimes. So we need to close, lock, or delete PR which have seed of troubles. But this kind of operations

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Hi Ben! On Fr, 27 Mär 2015, Ben Fritz wrote: I'd just like to point out that all you githeads arguing over the various different options on pull and fetch and whether they break or keep your repository intact, are making me VERY sad about losing Mercurial. Bram, is there a chance you'd be

Re: [PATCH] Fix javascript syntax highlight

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Hi José! On Fr, 27 Mär 2015, José Monteiro wrote: Hi, I was coding in javascript and noticed that in the following example:  0 | var str = this is a \  1 | long string; line 1 is highlighted as normal code, when in javascript the '\' allows the interperter to ignore the end of line.

[PATCH] Fix javascript syntax highlight

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie José Monteiro
Hi, I was coding in javascript and noticed that in the following example: 0 | var str = this is a \ 1 | long string; line 1 is highlighted as normal code, when in javascript the '\' allows the interperter to ignore the end of line. I then searched for a patch to this problem and found the

Re: expand(%) and utf-8 characters in directory names

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Charles Campbell
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Charles Campbell wrote: I tried a directory named josé and found that netrw wasn't handling it well. One of the reasons is expand(%), which is used to get the full path. However, when in that directory, expand(%) shows /home/cec/joee9 instead of the desired

Re: expand(%) and utf-8 characters in directory names

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Hi Charles! On Fr, 27 Mär 2015, Charles Campbell wrote: Bram Moolenaar wrote: Charles Campbell wrote: I tried a directory named josé and found that netrw wasn't handling it well. One of the reasons is expand(%), which is used to get the full path. However, when in that directory,

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Amadeus Demarzi
Ben: I would argue that Github provides a huge variety of useful tools to manage Vim that will net a major net positive going forward. Having a central place for issues and patches that is very familiar to many developers will help to make the barrier of entry for new contributors far lower as

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Navdeep Parhar
On 03/27/2015 12:00, Ben Fritz wrote: On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 1:21:48 PM UTC-5, James McCoy wrote: Why should this be different than any other open source project? If you want to contribute, you need to learn the tools that are being used. When tools change, then something different needs

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie James McCoy
On Mar 27, 2015 1:32 PM, Benjamin Fritz fritzophre...@gmail.com wrote: If we use Bitbucket (or another service that supports both), nobody needs to learn a new tool. And we can combine both repositories together under one project page. People could clone server-side from either repository

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Ben Fritz
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 1:21:48 PM UTC-5, James McCoy wrote: Why should this be different than any other open source project?  If you want to contribute, you need to learn the tools that are being used. When tools change, then something different needs to be learned. It's not up to the

Re: log messages slightly corrupted in new github repo

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Manuel Ortega
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net wrote: Manuel Ortega wrote: I cloned the new testing repo from github. When I do git log and scroll through the results, I find that multi-line log messages that look fine in the hg repo are a bit mangled in the

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Marshall Ward
Bram- Just a quick comment, followed by a maintenance question: First: Despite being a long time git and github user, I would still vote that you go with your personal preference by sticking with hg. I feel that much of the vim development cycle is built on your personal style of development,

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Manuel Ortega
We can't forget either that a MAJOR part of the Vim plugin ecosystem lives on Github already. I don't know why people keep bringing this up. It's (a) not even clear that it is true, and (b) even if it is true, it strikes me as completely irrelevant to the question of where to host vim. Who

Re: log messages slightly corrupted in new github repo

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Manuel Ortega
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net wrote: Manuel Ortega wrote: I cloned the new testing repo from github. When I do git log and scroll through the results, I find that multi-line log messages that look fine in the hg repo are a bit mangled in the

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Bruno Sutic
Indeed, we haven't even seen *that* reason.  All we've seen is it makes the vocal git users happy.  I don't know why people keep saying the majority of vim users prefer git/github.  This has in no way been established.  The poll this thread created shouldn't be assumed to be a

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Ben Fritz
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 4:06:47 PM UTC-5, Bruno Sutic wrote: - lastly, it has been mentioned a couple times vim plugin community is already on github. The objective statement that proves this: github currently has 42,636 vim related repositories, bitbucket has only 1652 (this is based on

Re: Preparations for moving to github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie Manuel Ortega
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Bruno Sutic bruno.su...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, we haven't even seen *that* reason. All we've seen is it makes the vocal git users happy. I don't know why people keep saying the majority of vim users prefer git/github. This has in no way been established.

Re: To keep good projects on github

2015-03-27 Fir de Conversatie MURAOKA Taro
2015-03-28 2:18 GMT+09:00 Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net: Yes, I hope several people can help out making Vim on Github work well. With a bit of luck I only have to take care of patches and push to the repository. Others can look into issues, pull requests, etc. I have already added