[Savannah-users] Re: Savannah outage v2

2009-06-01 Thread Miles Bader
James Cloos writes: > The last time the emacs repo required recovery, several others also had > copies and (much) better bandwidth. I'll need to use a public terminal > to upload my copy of that repo if it is useful. The emacs git mirror is also automatically updated fairly frequently, so anyone

[Savannah-users] Re: Savannah outage v2

2009-06-01 Thread Miles Bader
Ray Wang writes: >> For the Git/Hg: we plan to install an empty service (maybe today), >> where you'll be able to import the last state of your project with a >> classic 'push' command. We'll also make available the data from the >> April backup (not before tomorrow). You can prepare by having a l

[Savannah-users] Re: Savannah outage v2

2009-06-01 Thread Miles Bader
Miles Bader writes: > Dunno how simple it would be to replay that into CVS; not so hard to do > by hand probably, but there are probably various issues to worry about... BTW, I don't mean replay the whole repo, I mean, just the few latest missing changesets on top of an earlier restor

[Savannah-users] Re: Removing old user accounts with no past activity

2009-07-31 Thread Miles Bader
Sylvain Beucler writes: > I clarify: it's about cleaning-up empty unused accounts with _no_ > _trace_ _whatsoever_ in the system, no membership, no post, no job > offer, not even a single comment ... > In addition, as discussed, we're further restricting the deletion to > accounts w/o past activit

[Savannah-users] Re: PSPP

2009-12-02 Thread Miles Bader
I don't see anything resembling a swastika either. But also note that the swastika has a long history of other uses besides that of the nazi party, e.g., by many religions, and is still widely used today in such contexts. In most cases, I think there are obvious visual differences from the nazi e

Re: [Savannah-users] Re: PSPP

2009-12-03 Thread Miles Bader
nazi virus? :o -miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

[Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against CUDA library

2009-12-06 Thread Miles Bader
Sylvain Beucler writes: >> Would a FLOSS project using CUDA be accepted on savannah.nongnu.org? > > Independently of GPL compatibility, Savannah only accepts projects > that work without proprietary dependencies. > > Consequently, as long as you use CUDA to access the GPU, your project > does not

Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against CUDA library

2009-12-07 Thread Miles Bader
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Sylvain Beucler wrote: >> What if CUDA isn't a dependency per-se, but rather one of several >> backends? > > Free software users mustn't be enticed to use proprietary software. > If there are multiple backends, the best (or equal-best) backend must > rely on free so

[Savannah-users] git "smart http" protocol

2010-09-15 Thread Miles Bader
Hi, I'm wondering: are any plans to support the (relatively new) git "smart-http" protocol on savannah...? [Basically it allows git to pull over http: _much_ more quickly than the old slow git http: protocol, and I think it's backward compatible (old clients that don't know about the new smart ht

[Savannah-users] Re: git "smart http" protocol

2010-09-16 Thread Miles Bader
"Andreas K. Foerster" writes: >> For commit access, I dislike granting Apache write access to all >> repositories, because in that case any flaw in >> Apache/Gitweb/CGit/etc. would allow the attacker to corrupt any >> Savannah repositories. > > More importantly, the article suggests using Basic Au

[Savannah-users] Re: git "smart http" protocol

2010-09-16 Thread Miles Bader
Sylvain Beucler writes: > Hmmm, actually it works, but it doesn't support a HTTP redirect > (namely git.sv.gnu.org -> git.savannah.gnu.org). I'm a little confused ... is savannah sending a proper redirect? When I telnet to git.sv.gnu.org on the http port, I don't see any http headers in the resp

Re: [Savannah-users] Re: git "smart http" protocol

2010-09-16 Thread Miles Bader
hmm, ok, I sent an email to the git mailing list... -miles -- Cat is power.  Cat is peace.

[Savannah-users] Fwd: [PATCH] smart-http: Don't change POST to GET when following redirect

2010-09-18 Thread Miles Bader
ned-off-by: Andreas Schwab --- Andreas Schwab writes: > Ilari Liusvaara writes: > >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 01:33:48PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: >> >>> The savannah.gnu.org admins are trying out the git "smart http" server, >>> but it doesn't seem

[Savannah-users] Re: Faster Git HTTP-based cloning

2010-09-21 Thread Miles Bader
Perhaps it would be good to mention the "use savannah.gnu.org" not "sv.gnu.org" workaround in the announcement? -miles -- Next to fried food, the South has suffered most from oratory. -- Walter Hines Page

[Savannah-users] Re: Creating a hopemage

2010-10-07 Thread Miles Bader
Michał Masłowski writes: >> 2. Do we get a subdomain like ranger.nongnu.org? > It probably works, although it is not canonical. All of the following forms seem to work and yield identical results: "foo.nongnu.org", "nongnu.org/foo", "www.nongnu.org/foo". ("www.foo.nongnu.org" doesn't work tho)

[Savannah-users] Re: How Long Until Acceptance?

2010-12-03 Thread Miles Bader
Luiji Maryo writes: > You know, it would be really helpful if the mailing list appended a > Reply-To to the message headers. No, no it wouldn't. -miles -- Would you like fries with that?

[Savannah-users] Re: How Long Until Acceptance?

2010-12-05 Thread Miles Bader
Luiji Maryo writes: > So I think I'm just going to upload my project to GitHub until if/when > Savannah approves of it. If/when it gets approved, I might actually > continue using GitHub for the source code instead of git.sv.nongnu.org > since of GitHub's handy little "Fork" button. The nice thin

[Savannah-users] Re: Disk failure

2010-12-05 Thread Miles Bader
Sylvain Beucler writes: > We had a disk failure in our RAID-1 array, which slowed down the system. Yeesh, this is just not savannah's week... -miles -- Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

[Savannah-users] Re: It's been fun

2011-02-23 Thread Miles Bader
Thomas Schwinge writes: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: >> I've been hacking on Savannah for exactly 7 years - and it's time for >> a change :) > > Ooohh! So, who'll be there the next time that savannah.gnu.org explodes? > I don't know about your reasons PTSD...? -miles -- values of β will give rise

[Savannah-users] Re: project approval

2011-02-27 Thread Miles Bader
LynX <_l...@bk.ru> writes: > So my question is, can I submit it or not? Why not just submit it and see what the response is? -Miles -- /\ /\ (^.^) (")") *This is the cute kitty virus, please copy this into your sig so it can spread.

[Savannah-users] git browser prob

2011-09-08 Thread Miles Bader
If I go to my savanannah project page: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/snogray It looks OK. The git repo is also fine when accessed using git. But if I click on the "Browse Sources Repository" link in the project page, which jumps to: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/snogray.git I

Re: [Savannah-users] Git advice sought.

2011-10-15 Thread Miles Bader
Kaz Kylheku writes: > The author of CGIT informs me that CGIT just pulls out tarballs > using git-archive, which only operates on what is in the tree. > Submodules will come out empty. > > This is completely stupid; it means that users who don't want to > (and should not) know anything about git c

[Savannah-users] git push -f

2012-01-05 Thread Miles Bader
WTF, I tried to use "git push -f" to savannah, but it wouldn't let me: $ git push -f sv Counting objects: 90, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (70/70), done. Writing objects: 100% (70/70), 30.27 KiB, done. Total 70 (delta 50), reused 0 (del

Re: [Savannah-users] git push -f

2012-01-05 Thread Miles Bader
2012/1/6 Kaz Kylheku : >> WTF, I tried to use "git push -f" to savannah, but it wouldn't let me: > > You have to open a support ticket and wait. Ok, I sent mail to savannah-hackers ... argh... Thanks, -miles -- Cat is power.  Cat is peace.

Re: [Savannah-users] git push -f

2012-01-05 Thread Miles Bader
Bob Proulx writes: >> [If somebody can do this for me locally on the savannah server, I've >> pushed the desired new master as a branch called "tmp" in the repo >> (srv/git/snogray.git).] > > I can help. I haven't seen your message to savannah-hackers yet but > see this one. > > I see what you ar

Re: [Savannah-users] git push -f

2012-01-06 Thread Miles Bader
> Sounds good.  If you would be so kind as to post a closing message > saying all clear (or not) when you get the chance to check that would > be great! Hi, I checked out my savannah repo and everything looks perfect. Thank you! -miles -- Cat is power.  Cat is peace.

Re: [Savannah-users] Git repo for a fork

2012-04-22 Thread Miles Bader
Stayvoid writes: >> Of course, but my point is, if you can cooperate with the maintainers >> instead of producing an independent work and fragmenting what users see, >> that would be nice. > > Maintainers asked me about it. They want to pull my code. > (I can't push to the main branch because my c

Re: [Savannah-users] GNU software on non-GNU package?

2012-05-23 Thread Miles Bader
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > 1) in principle I suppose it is not out of question for gnu packages to > depend on a common nongnu but free package. But the first question > would be, why not make the common package gnu as well? Isn't there some sort of idea that GNU should limit the

Re: [Savannah-users] delete remote branch?

2012-06-28 Thread Miles Bader
"Michael J. Flickinger" writes: > In the near future we'll have a repository manager which will allow > for a project's admin to perform some of these commonly requested > actions. Excellent! -miles -- Congratulation, n. The civility of envy.

Re: [Savannah-users] How to set up a new project

2012-11-29 Thread Miles Bader
Luiji Maryo writes: > As for the Downloads area, that requires you to use rsync You can use sftp too... :] -miles -- Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.

Re: [Savannah-users] password must contain multiple character classes...

2013-04-04 Thread Miles Bader
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > How is your password "much" better? Using non-alphanumeric > characters? I thought they were allowed even though the message > doesn't mention them. I think there's a pretty general consensus by now that this sort of requirement ("must contain a digit

[Savannah-users] git browsing: cgit vs. gitweb, emacs

2009-03-12 Thread Miles Bader
Is there a reason why the Emacs git repository is visible using gitweb, but not cgit? gitweb works ok: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git;a=summary [and Emacs appears in the top-level gitweb project listing] but cgit doesn't: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/ [Em

[Savannah-users] Re: git browsing: cgit vs. gitweb, emacs

2009-03-12 Thread Miles Bader
Sylvain Beucler writes: > CGit rely on explicit (i.e. not autodetected) configuration, which > itself is derived from the project configuration: you need to enable > 'Git' in project Emacs. Ok, I've done that. It still doesn't show up in cgit should I just wait a while? Thanks, -Miles --

[Savannah-users] Re: git browsing: cgit vs. gitweb, emacs

2009-03-12 Thread Miles Bader
Miles Bader writes: > It still doesn't show up in cgit should I just wait a while? Ok, now it's there! Thanks! -Miles -- Omochiroi!

[Savannah-users] preferred git browser

2009-03-15 Thread Miles Bader
If I want to link to the savannah git-browsing page, what's the "preferred" browser, gitweb, or cgit? I.e., should I link to: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/PKG.git or http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=PKG.git [My guess would be that it's cgit since I get the impression that's les

[Savannah-users] non-fast-forward git push ?

2009-04-06 Thread Miles Bader
Is there any way (as project admin) I can do a non-fast-forward git push to savannah? Right now, even if I use the git-push "-f" option, I get: error: denying non-fast forward refs/heads/master (you should pull first) To ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/snogray.git ! [remote rejected] maste

[Savannah-users] Re: non-fast-forward git push ?

2009-04-07 Thread Miles Bader
ergh, a bit scary ... :-O Did that actually have the desired effect, of simply moving the master branch a bit? Thanks, -Miles -- Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

[Savannah-users] Re: non-fast-forward git push ?

2009-04-07 Thread Miles Bader
I posted a query to #...@freenode ("snogglethorpe" is me): 17:28 snogglethorpe: I wanted to do a non-FF push to a remote repo that doesn't allow them, but someone has pointed out that you can actually bypass the protection by doing: git push REMOTE :master ; git push REMOTE master 17:29 sn