Re: [ANNOUNCE] pg - A patch porcelain for GIT

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:38:18PM CET, I got a letter
where Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> said that...
> But two things happened:
> 
>   1) Cogito didn't run well on a Solaris box I wanted to try and
>      use it in; apparently we don't have enough GNU shell commands
>      available and Cogito fell over.  (But right now I'd bet pg
>      will behave the same if not worse. I haven't had time to try
>      it. *sigh*)

I'm always listening for bugreports. Besides requiring bash, Cogito _is_
expected to run on POSIX stuff!

>   2) I found myself suddenly typing 'pg-log' and 'pg-diff' rather
>      than 'git-log' and 'git-diff'.  Call it future muscle memory?
>      I hadn't written either of these scripts so I was getting a lot
>      of '-bash: pg-log: command not found' errors from my shell.
>      So they both became 1 line wrappers around the git-core
>      versions, just to save my sanity.

I see. IIRC Catalin gave the similar reasoning. (Obviously, my
egoistical me might be just hurt by it not wrapping Cogito. ;))

> > But while it claims to be compatible with all the porcelains, it at
> > least cannot be clone by them. ;) The GIT repository is not quite a
> > valid GIT repository since it is missing the HEAD and Cogito clones
> > based on this file instead of just assuming that your head is on the
> > master branch.
> 
> Fixed.

Thanks.

> > Also, when cloning it gives me a little unnerving errors like
> > 
> > error: File 6427c0154400f578d9cdff178e01e946db6f714f
> > (http://www.spearce.org/projects/scm/pg.git/objects/64/27c0154400f578d9cdff178e01e946db6f714f)
> > corrupt
> 
> I've seen the same.  I think it is either a bug in my rsync script
> or a bug in the GIT http clone code; because that is the current
> tip commit of the master branch.  And I've only seen that error for
> the tip commit, and only if the object doesn't exist in the object
> directory because I've done git-pack && git-prune-packed.

On a second thought, this is probably simply caused by the web server
not reporting 404 on missing files.

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