Re: Some progress on git

On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:46 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:

> I seem to have made some progress with GIT.

Very impressive.

> I have it building now, but I am confused as the program execs image  
> names slightly different than the ones that the build procedure  
> creates and installed.
>
> If I rename the module to match the name that git uses, that seems  
> to work.
>
> The only thing I have tried so far is the clone function.
>
> EAGLE> git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /GIT_ROOT/base/perl/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 267296, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (59781/59781), done.
> Receiving objects:  99% (266984/267296), 71.72 MiB | 230 KiB/s
> Receiving objects: 100% (267296/267296), 71.83 MiB | 136 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (208264/208264), done.
> Checking out files: 100% (4616/4616), done.
> EAGLE> dir git_root:[base.perl...]/grand
>
> Grand total of 682 directories, 5325 files.
> EAGLE>
>
> The resulting tree looks complete, but is missing the .patch file  
> that I get with the rsync download.

That's not part of the repository.  It's something generated for the  
rsync mirror.  The build runs make_patchnum.pl in the top level of the  
source, which spawns git commands to populate various files.

> I have not yet worked on getting the daemon running or doing the  
> make check step to do more verification, so this is a bit preliminary.

That could be a lot of work.


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