From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixing repository conversion errors. Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:34:07 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141113173407.GC10182@thyrsus.com> References: <20141113031255.GA21938@thyrsus.com> <20141113114308.GA30912@thyrsus.com> <20141113092024526768767@bob.proulx.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415900120 18804 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2014 17:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:35:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Bob Proulx , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 13 18:35:15 2014 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 1XoyId-0002n2-4q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:35:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33108 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoyIc-00008O-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:35:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42686) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoyID-00007o-Pr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:34:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoyI1-0006C9-U0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:34:49 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:49393 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoyI1-0006Bw-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:34:37 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 86F02382EFB; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:34:07 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141113092024526768767@bob.proulx.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 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:176972 Archived-At: Bob Proulx : > A tar file or other is fine. But I can easily set up a uniquely named > repository that only you know about and then you can simply upload to > it and inspect the result afterward. That would create a git > repository as you wish it to be. You can craft it in place. Then > that can be swapped into place when you are happy with it. That would > be my preference. But either way is fine. That's a good idea. Let's set up the capability. We're not quite at the threshold for "must be fixed", but if we get there I want to be able to do this quickly and with a minumum of fuss. -- Eric S. Raymond