Re: Apache Subversion: GNOME Women Outreach

2013-01-01 Thread Branko Čibej
On 02.01.2013 03:43, Miriam Hochwald wrote: > Hello Justin, > > Actually the INSTALL docs ... whilst detailed make me phobic. It seems to > target the audience that likes to tinker, rather than just click and oh ... > there it is (think iPad users ... which is most of the world). It might be > bet

Re: Apache Subversion: GNOME Women Outreach

2013-01-01 Thread Miriam Hochwald
Hello Justin, Actually the INSTALL docs ... whilst detailed make me phobic. It seems to target the audience that likes to tinker, rather than just click and oh ... there it is (think iPad users ... which is most of the world). It might be better to have something other than plain text, in a kind

Re: Apache Subversion: GNOME Women Outreach

2013-01-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Miriam Hochwald wrote: > I am new to this random public email writing ... and, at least for me it > takes a fair amount of courage to do so. I have had to face a few phobia > barriers based on experience. > Welcome! It can indeed be quite scary at first...then, y

Re: Proposal for OPW project

2013-01-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Gabriela Gibson wrote: > The following is a conversation that should have been held on the > list, please excuse the misunderstanding on my part. > No worries - we've all been there before. You'll get the hang of it soon enough. =) Keep up the posts! Cheers. -

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2013-01-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > BTW, it would have been better to send your question to the users@ list. > The dev@ list is off-topic for questions like this. I suppose you chose > dev@ because of your idea to develop support for cross-repository copies, > which I'll add

Re: Proposal for OPW project

2013-01-01 Thread Branko Čibej
On 01.01.2013 22:17, Gabriela Gibson wrote: > Hi Brane and everyone here, > > I've used configure and friends before, albeit in a much smaller > setting, so the territory looks familiar. > > Googletest and virtual hosts also looks also like good tools to know > about -- I'll need some reading-in ti

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2013-01-01 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Branko Čibej wrote on Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 20:48:19 +0100: > The question is, does mirroring into a (subtree of an) existing > repository carry enough benefit (compared to a pure mirror and > a "local" vendor branch) to justify the hassle of integrating such > a thing into the filesystem model? I s

Re: 1.6.20 up for testing/signing

2013-01-01 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Bert Huijben wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] >> Sent: maandag 31 december 2012 08:55 >> To: Johan Corveleyn >> Cc: Ben Reser; Subversion Development >> Subject: Re: 1.6.20 up for testing/signing >> >>

Re: Proposal for OPW project

2013-01-01 Thread Gabriela Gibson
Hi All, The following is a conversation that should have been held on the list, please excuse the misunderstanding on my part. > On 01.01.2013 15:09, Gabriela Gibson wrote: > > Hi Brane, > > > > Daniel mentioned on the dev list that you are working on the C++ > > bindings and advised me to contac

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2013-01-01 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ben Reser wrote on Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 17:41:36 -0800: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > (This is currently not possible because svnsync assumes that it writes > > to the repository root and assumes revnums in the src and dest > > repositories must equal; with the change

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2013-01-01 Thread Branko Čibej
On 01.01.2013 19:53, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > A more flexible svnsync might still be interesting, because it makes > you less dependent on the source repo. If that source repo vanishes, > you still have the complete history of the part you synced (for > instance, with the foreign cp approach, maybe

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2013-01-01 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Ben Reser wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> (This is currently not possible because svnsync assumes that it writes >> to the repository root and assumes revnums in the src and dest >> repositories must equal; with the change, what wi

Re: Would branching across repositories be theoretically possible?

2013-01-01 Thread Stefan Fuhrmann
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Ben Reser wrote: There are a couple things to remember here: > * Subversion was never intended to really break new ground when it > was designed. > * The other major Open Source version control systems are all > distributed (which by its very nature supports th

Re: Apache Subversion: GNOME Women Outreach

2013-01-01 Thread Miriam Hochwald
Hello Stefan, Happy New Year! ... Don't know what day/ time it is for you... but here it is 6pm 1st Jan in Brisvegas (Brisbane). Incidentally, I was musing that perhaps a little bit of maths could be slapped into the project. The term Possion Distribution sprang to mind ... arrival of discrete "p