commit-graph idea: warn when disabled for incompatible repositories

2018-12-18 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Hey there, I recently started dabbling with commit-graph. Accidentally, my first use-case was a local copy of a big repository (chromium source) that another developer had cloned shallow (I wasn't even aware of their clone being shallow at that point). After spending a little time trying to figu

Re: git/git-scm.com GH Issue Tracker

2017-02-06 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Adding Peff to cc as he is the current maintainer of the git-scm.com site/repo. On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Samuel Lijin wrote: > > I've taken the liberty of classifying them as shown below. > As a community member who cares a lot about that site, thank you! I would love to contribute by rev

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 7

2015-09-10 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Jeff King wrote: > In more technical matters, you may be interested in: > > https://github.com/blog/2053-easier-feeds-for-github-pages > > I don't know of any problems with the current RSS solution, but 1 line > of code maintained by somebody else is perhaps bet

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

2015-08-06 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > It is surprisingly difficult to get to the actual post of edition 6 > from this thread. The link in the original post is just a 404, and to > get to it from the link in this mail, which you might not have sent at > all, I had to click like

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

2015-08-06 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > I hope we can attract more contributors in the future, so the weight > of this doesn't lie too much on his shoulders. Perhaps we should send > out the draft earlier next time, and beckon for more contributions &

[ANNOUNCE] Git Rev News edition 6

2015-08-05 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Dear all, I'm happy announce that the 6th edition of Git Rev News is now published: http://git.github.io/rev_news/2015/08/05/edition-6/ Big thanks to the contributors! Cheers, Thomas, Christian and Nicola -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a messag

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

2015-08-03 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I hope we can attract more contributors in the future, so the weight >> of this doesn't lie too much on his shoulders. Perhaps we should send >> out the draft earlier next time, and beckon for more contributions >> from the list. > > Yeah,

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

2015-08-03 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thanks; it seems that the review section is rather thin. No new and > interesting changes worth reviewing in the entire month of July? Of course there are, but I can only put in a few hours, and that goes into the links-section. The newsle

Draft of Git Rev News edition 6

2015-08-02 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
Hi, A draft of Git Rev News edition 6 is available here: https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/drafts/edition-6.md Everyone is welcome to contribute in any section, either by editing the above page on GitHub and sending a pull request, or by commenting on this GitHub issue:

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 5

2015-07-05 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote: > Unfortunately, the non-ASCII characters > in Duy's name got corrupted, and the botch is present in the patch I > sent. Sorry. Not sure how that happened. Can you fix it locally? Fixed [1]. [1] https://github.com/git/git.github.io/commit/b5

Re: release address not working

2015-06-08 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Mustafa Kerim Yılmaz wrote: > I try to download from this url: > https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases/download/Git-1.9.5-preview20150319/Git-1.9.5-preview20150319.exe > > It is redirect to amazon aws with url but not responsed: > https://s3.amazonaws.com/git

Re: Permission denied ONLY after pulling bundles

2015-06-08 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Rossella Barletta wrote: > > So summarizing: > > 1) Git repository (bare) is on Windows on a shared folder > 2) Clone of the repository is on Linux > 3) Clone of the repository is on windows > 4) I received a bundle made starting by a branch, i pull the bundle o

Re: When and how to to contact the Git developers (gist)

2015-04-14 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote: > >> Perhaps someone here would prefer to use my gist when >> redirecting people with "user questions" away from this list, or >> inspire th

Re: When and how to to contact the Git developers (gist)

2015-04-13 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > As to "better bug reports", I often find people pointing others to > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html Thanks, I've added it to the gist. It is already linked on http://git-scm.com/community . -- To unsubscribe f

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 2

2015-04-12 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Christian Couder wrote: > A draft of Git Rev News edition 2 is available here: > > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/blob/master/rev_news/draft/edition-2.md There's also a "secret" live preview here now: http://git.github.io/rev_news/draft/edition-2 Btw, I've

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git Merge Contributors Summit, April 8th, Paris

2015-04-05 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Jeff King wrote: > I wanted to make one more announcement about this, since a few more > details have been posted at: > > http://git-merge.com/ > > since my last announcement. Specifically, I wanted to call attention to > the contributor's summit on the 8th. Bas

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 1

2015-03-22 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:21 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > David Kastrup (dak at gnu.org) previously reimplemented significant > parts of "git blame" for a vast gain in performance with complex > histories and large files. As working on free software is his sole > source of income, p

Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 1

2015-03-22 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thanks. > > The most important question I would ask you is this: > > Did you two enjoy writing it? To be clear, apart from some minor wording and nitpicking, I only contributed the links from outside the list. This is an activity I mostly d

Re: Promoting Git developers

2015-03-17 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Christian Couder wrote: > > I wrote something about a potential Git Rev News news letter: > > https://github.com/git/git.github.io/pull/15 > I would love to have/use something like this in the GitMinutes podcast. Perhaps in addition to the very random interview fo

Re: PLEASE HELP: Git for Yosemite 10.10.2

2015-03-09 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Siamak Nooraei wrote: > Hi there, > > I am taking an online data science course for which I am required to > download Git. > When I go to the Git's site, I can only download Git 2.2.1 Maverick. Also, > when I check in my CLI, it says "git version 1.9.3 (Apple Gi

Re: [PATCH] Add --recursive flag to git bash completion script.

2015-03-09 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 1:00 AM, James wrote: > This is a patch to add a much needed option to the bash completion > script. I'm not subscribed to this list, so please include me in your > reply if you'd like me to see your response. Please read the guide on how to submit patches [1]. Although th

Re: git push rejected due being behind after git svn dcommit without any changes local/remote

2014-05-21 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Henning Sprang wrote: > > You'd say, can happen, when some developers work against the remote > git repo, others with svn. But I'm the only developer on the project, > and no one ever commits to the remote svn nor the remote git repo. So, > I'm clueless. > > How ca

Re: Rewriting git history during git-svn conversion

2014-03-04 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Robert Dailey wrote: > > Is it safe to do this while still using git svn fetch? Will it > properly continue to convert SVN commits on top of my rewritten > history? If not, what changes can I make after I run the commands > linked by the URL above so that git svn co

git add -A fails in empty repository since 1.8.5

2013-12-18 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
This was discussed on the Git user list recently [1]. #in a repo with no files > git add -A fatal: pathspec '.' did not match any files The same goes for git add . (and -u). Whereas I think some warning feedback is useful, we are curious whether this is an intentional change or not. [1] https:/

git-svn: Use prefix by default?

2013-08-22 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
I've recently been forced back into using git-svn, and while I was at it, I noticed that git-svn generally behaves a lot better when it is initialized using the --prefix option. For example, I make a standard-layout svn clone: $ git svn clone -s https://svn.company.com/repos/project-foo/ .. and

Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

2013-06-06 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Michael Haggerty wrote: > > But my main point is that I think it would be easier to phase out > contrib/ if there were a good alternate way of providing visibility to > "satellite" projects. The relevant Git wiki page [1] is the most likely > candidate, but it is a

Re: Fw: [git-users] How do I git-push to an FTP server?

2012-10-05 Thread Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Philippe Vaucher wrote: > > > On the git-users mailing list we're trying someone to help with > > running `git push` over FTP. That person is runnig Git 1.7.9.5 > > on Ubuntu 12.04. > > I don't think vanilla git supports pushing over ftp. > At least according to t