From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr (=?utf-8?B?zpPOuc+Oz4HOs86/z4IgzprOtc+BzrE=?= =?utf-8?B?zrzOr860zrHPgg==?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git-1.8.2 support pulling from and pushing to a bzr branch Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:42:44 +0200 Message-ID: <8738ur6brf.fsf@saturn.laptop> References: <87vc7qurlt.fsf@bernoul.li> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366040592 30743 80.91.229.3 (15 Apr 2013 15:43:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:43:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 15 17:43:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1URlYp-0004nV-Ts for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:43:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URlYp-0007SB-F3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:43:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URlYg-0007F2-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URlYf-0000AT-7v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from tux-cave.hellug.gr ([195.134.99.74]:52874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1URlYe-00009R-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:43:05 -0400 X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.9, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90) X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-ID: r3FFgoT4024909 Original-Received: from saturn.laptop (217-162-217-29.dynamic.hispeed.ch [217.162.217.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by tux-cave.hellug.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r3FFgoT4024909 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:42:57 +0300 Original-Received: from saturn.laptop (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r3FFgiQl005204 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:42:44 +0200 Original-Received: (from keramida@localhost) by saturn.laptop (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id r3FFgiH7005200; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:42:44 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: saturn.laptop: keramida set sender to keramida@ceid.upatras.gr using -f In-Reply-To: (John Wiegley's message of "Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:22:32 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 195.134.99.74 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158932 Archived-At: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:22:32 -0500, "John Wiegley" wrote: >>>>>> Jonas Bernoulli writes: >> git-1.8.2, released in March, supports pulling from and pushing to bzr >> branches. This should make it possible to contribute to Emacs using git >> without ever having to touch bzr directly. Also read-only users won't >> be affected by the git mirrors lagging behind anymore - they can just >> pull themselves. > > I found out about this support last week, so as you can imagine I immediately > jumped on it and cloned the Emacs BZR repository (which took a good long > while, but did succeed). > > The resulting repository could not be updated (using git-fetch). At first it > kept timing out trying to communicate with the remote bazaar server. Then, it > started giving me an exception about "object 000000000 not existing", or > something like that. I was never able to get the repository to function again > after that and deleted it. > > So, I think this is a great idea, but I'm not sure it's any more ready for > prime-time than the old git-bzr machinery was. Ditto. I did the same experiment when I found out about the new support too. Unfortunately, I also hit the "object 000000000 not existing" problem, and failed to re-fetch anything from the git clone. The existing git mirror works fine for now I think.