From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr (Γιώργος Κεραμίδας)
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git-1.8.2 support pulling from and pushing to a bzr branch
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:42:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738ur6brf.fsf@saturn.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ppxyvzo7.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:22:32 -0500")
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:22:32 -0500, "John Wiegley" <johnw@newartisans.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-15 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-13 20:02 git-1.8.2 support pulling from and pushing to a bzr branch Jonas Bernoulli
2013-04-13 22:22 ` John Wiegley
2013-04-15 15:42 ` Γιώργος Κεραμίδας [this message]
2013-04-15 19:06 ` David Engster
2013-04-16 16:30 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2013-04-16 17:18 ` Julien Danjou
2013-04-18 18:53 ` joakim
2013-04-18 18:57 ` David Engster
2013-04-19 5:55 ` joakim
2013-04-20 19:01 ` joakim
2013-04-30 10:24 ` joakim
2013-05-01 6:16 ` Felipe Contreras
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