Re: [sr #110591] errors during git push

2022-01-01 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 5:17 PM Bob Proulx wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #8, sr #110591 (project administration): > > Background: Earlier git created sample hook scripts in place and included this > comment. > > # To enable this hook, make this file executable. > > Which is to say that there will be

[sr #110591] errors during git push

2022-01-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Follow-up Comment #6, sr #110591 (project administration): I had run chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/git-post-receive-hook, thinking that needed to be executable, but that just reenabled something that had not run for years and that no longer works. I've just restored to prior state via chmod a-x ... W

[Savannah-help-public] Re: turning off bug and patch trackers for coreutils

2010-03-27 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 09:49:18PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> coreutils is moving to debbugs.gnu.org, finally. >> Is there a mechanism by which I can prohibit new submissions >> to the bug and patch trackers, while leaving the existing >> bugs

Re: [Savannah-help-public] commit mail notification for inetutils.git

2009-11-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler wrote: > I updated inetutils.git to use the current git mail notification > script (as documented in git.txt). > > Here it seems that Alfred pushes 3 commits: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e7440293e6eb3bd478fb098a88e13049fda409d6 > > http://git.s

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106848] Recovery of Emacs CVS

2009-06-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of sr #106848 (project administration): Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___ Follow-up Comment #3: Thanks for confirming. That's fine. So I'm closing this.

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106848] Recovery of Emacs CVS

2009-06-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #106848 (project administration): the CVS repository is restored, using the May 29 backups + two ChangeLog,v files from Andreas Schwab. The git repository once again mirrors the CVS repository, but I have not yet reenabled the cron job to keep it that way, since a little

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #106848] Recovery of Emacs CVS

2009-06-02 Thread Jim Meyering
Update of sr #106848 (project administration): Assigned to:None => meyering ___ Reply to this item at: _

[Savannah-help-public] Re: [sr #106709] Git commit mailing list for GNU Guile

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Ludovic Courtès wrote: ... >> If you like that or something similar, let me know and I'll >> install it for guile. > > OK for both. Thank you! Done. And got rid of the [SCM] prefix.

[Savannah-help-public] Re: [sr #106709] Git commit mailing list for GNU Guile

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Follow-up Comment #6, sr #106709 (project administration): > >> Could you configure it so that diffs are shown as well? >> Likewise, could the `[SCM]' string be removed from the subject line? > > I don't think that it's possible yet, there was some issues with diffs given >

[Savannah-help-public] newer tar: avoid .. exploit

2007-09-09 Thread Jim Meyering
[deliberately not sent to the -public list] Hi guys, You've probably heard about the latest exploitable tar bug: If you unpack a malicious tar archive, it can overwrite (through e.g., ../..) any number of your key files with tarball-supplied contents. Fixed only recently in GNU tar for the upcomi

[Savannah-help-public] Re: PATH_MAX with mingw

2007-08-25 Thread Jim Meyering
[I wrote: > Hi Sylvain, > > Thanks for letting us know. > > For starters, in code intended to be portable, it's best not > to rely on PATH_MAX, if at all possible. At a bare minimum, > don't use it as an array size, and don't try to allocate > PATH_MAX bytes from the heap. On some systems, PATH_M

[Savannah-help-public] Re: Error accessing Emacs GIT repo from windows (XP)

2007-08-20 Thread Jim Meyering
dhruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am behind a firewall, hence have to use http. > > When I try on a different repository, it works! > $git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/emacs-off.git > > which is the main GIT repo for emacs? > 1. http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/emacs.git > 2. http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/e

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Multiple git repos

2007-08-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We're considering moving several CVS modules of TSP >> (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/tsp/) to git. However, we'd like >> to keep the distantly related modules available separtely. This doesn't >> seem possible with one git repo only. >> Is it pos

Re: [Savannah-help-public] mcasadevall user?

2007-08-10 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:32:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I noticed what looks like a regular user (mcasadevall) in /etc/passwd. >> Is this deliberate? ISTR it's against policy. Hi Sylvain! > > Michael asked to

[Savannah-help-public] mcasadevall user?

2007-08-10 Thread Jim Meyering
I noticed what looks like a regular user (mcasadevall) in /etc/passwd. Is this deliberate? ISTR it's against policy. Also, I scp'd files to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: and see them show up with this same ownership: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /var/tmp/c2g-mirror/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody nogro

[Savannah-help-public] savannah hosed?

2007-03-13 Thread Jim Meyering
savannah is still pingable, but refuses ssh, http, git connections. Can anyone here deal with this: $ ssh sv.gnu.org ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host [Exit 255]

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-11-04 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you already know by which mean it would be preferable to restrict > [write] access [to a git repository] ? Hi Sylvain, Thanks for working on this. Since I expect the list of people with write access to be very small, simply listing their user names

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-10-30 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:39:09AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Meanwhile I manually replaced refs/heads/master to >> > e24ce7c58d2355b720b523f0bde6e0d2c47cbe68

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Meanwhile I manually replaced refs/heads/master to > e24ce7c58d2355b720b523f0bde6e0d2c47cbe68 (you just mentioned it) and I > also repacked the repository to a 45MB pack file :) Thanks! Looks good. Does anyone else have write (push) access to that tree

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> I'm pushing coreutils now (127k objects). >> Will take a look at the result this evening. > > Woah - 1.1GB! Yep. Back before git-cvsimport did an auto-repack/prune, it was really bad. > I guess we need to seriously consider auto-packing :) Yes :

[Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed gitweb, to browse the repositories: > http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/ Sylvain, I first pushed your little example (dir containing only README), and that worked. Then I went to my "master" coreutils git tree and pushed it. (I had to use --for

[Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-10-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> I see that it uses a nifty naming convention: >> /git/project.git >> /git/project/other_repos.git Sounds like we'll be able to use shorter URLs. That'd be good. It'd be nice if the host name does not start with "cvs.". How about this? git

[Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-10-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> rsync write access is good, at least initially. >> Unless there's some other way for me to transfer the original >> .git repository, and potentially, to overwrite it with a new >> one as I experiment and (likely, as I learn) want to start fresh. > > Aft

Re: [Savannah-help-public] coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-06-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> rsync write access is good, at least initially. >> Unless there's some other way for me to transfer the original >> .git repository, and potentially, to overwrite it with a new >> one as I experiment and (likely, as I learn) want to start fresh. > > Aft

Re: [Savannah-help-public] coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-06-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:30:51PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Hi S

Re: [Savannah-help-public] coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-06-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should be able to use: > cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/srv/git/sources/coreutils/main.git > Currently you have a single repository with git-shell & > git-daemon access. Wow. Thank you. You're a little too quick for me. I haven't made the leap yet, but I h

Re: [Savannah-help-public] coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:08:10PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Hello, Hi Sylvain, Thank you for the quick reply. >> Currently, the coreutils package uses CVS for version control. However, >> I am shifting coreutils dev

[Savannah-help-public] coreutils is moving to distributed version control

2006-05-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Hello, Currently, the coreutils package uses CVS for version control. However, I am shifting coreutils development to git -- or maybe even mercurial. Will savannah support git or mercurial soon? I would also consider using monotone. FYI, I can already convert my coreutils module (with 15 years

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #105020] request for [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Follow-up Comment #5, sr #105020 (project administration): Hmm... the package has been known as id-utils for quite some time, while the savannah `name' for the project doesn't really become `known' until there's a release that announces the services. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/id-utils If it's

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #105020] request for [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Follow-up Comment #3, sr #105020 (project administration): Hi! Shouldn't the mailing list name be bug-id-utils (with two hyphens), since the package name is id-utils? ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: [Savannah-help-public] Savannah coreutils no longer syncing CVS data

2005-12-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > rsync should be ok and error-free now. Thanks for fixing it. ___ Savannah-help-public mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #104874] filter and/or moderation for comments/bugs/patches?

2005-11-24 Thread Jim Meyering
URL: Summary: filter and/or moderation for comments/bugs/patches? Project: Savannah Administration Submitted by: meyering Submitted on: Thu 11/24/05 at 08:30

[Savannah-help-public] [sr #104874] filter and/or moderation for comments/bugs/patches?

2005-11-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Follow-up Comment #1, sr #104874 (project administration): whoops. Hit `return' too quickly. The question is whether there is a way to filter or moderate bug reports, patches, and comments. I ask because in the last few hours, spammers have added at least four to coreutils, and those additions h

[Savannah-hackers] some project repositories may need chmod g+s [Re: .../coreutils owned by root?

2003-09-18 Thread Jim Meyering
Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> FYI, my nightly rsync (uploading files to savannah) failed because the >> ownership of /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils was changed from `meyering' >> to `root'. &g

[Savannah-hackers] /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils owned by root?

2003-09-18 Thread Jim Meyering
FYI, my nightly rsync (uploading files to savannah) failed because the ownership of /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils was changed from `meyering' to `root'. I've just renamed that to `root-owned' and restored a copy owned by me. In case you want to examine that directory, I'm leaving it for 24 hours, a

[Savannah-hackers] Re: savannah shell access required -- or at least ssh-rsync-upload

2003-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
> Hum, sorry :) No trouble :-) > So I set back your account. Thank you! BTW, have you found any more evidence that savannah was cracked? ___ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers

[Savannah-hackers] Re: savannah shell access required -- or at least ssh-rsync-upload

2003-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> I require access in order to rsync to the savannah coreutils CVS >> repository from the master repository on my desktop. >> >> I am pretty paranoid about security, so IMHO you have very >> little to fear in the way of compromise via my account. > > Norm

[Savannah-hackers] savannah shell access required -- or at least ssh-rsync-upload

2003-09-17 Thread Jim Meyering
You wrote: > For security reasons, shell accounts are now stricly > restricted to system administrators at savannah.gnu.org. However, if > you do really require shell access for a particular reason write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to restablish your access - or if you still > administrate the server an