cool!

just to formalize the 9fans steps of canonization, i think it goes
something like this:
servant of 9fans → loathed → cursed → saint



On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:31 PM Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:

> You can pick up a Cheesehead hat in Wisconsin, or online…
> Some groups I’ve worked with would pass the Cheesehead hat to the person
> who checked something in that broke the nightly build.  I’m not saying
> being sainted by the 9fans community wouldn’t be an honor, but the
> recipient might get something more along the lines of a cheesehead hat.
>
>
> Until then, you can install hg-git for your python2.7 environment on Plan
> 9:
>
> mkdir -p $home/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docs
> bind -bc $home/lib/python2.7/site-packages /$cputype/lib/python2.7/site-
> packages
> bind -bc $home/lib/python2.7/site-packages /sys/lib/python2.7/site-
> packages
>
> Grab dulwich (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dulwich), I pulled the latest
> master
> from github:
>
> % unzip -f dulwich-master.zip
> % cd dulwich
>
> To accommodate a strange import error not setting has_mmap correctly, patch
> dulwich/pack.py (this is from my hg clone version after installing):
>
> % hg diff -g dulwich/pack.py
> diff --git a/dulwich/pack.py b/dulwich/pack.py
> --- a/dulwich/pack.py
> +++ b/dulwich/pack.py
> @@ -59,6 +59,10 @@
>      SEEK_CUR,
>      SEEK_END,
>      )
> +# For some reason the above try, except fails to set has_mmap = False
> +if os.uname()[0] == 'Plan9':
> +    has_mmap = False
> +
>  import struct
>  from struct import unpack_from
>  import zlib
>
>
> Install dulwich:
>
> % python setup.py --pure install
>
>
> Grab and install hg-git:
>
> % hg clone https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git
> % cd hg-git
> % python setup.py install
>
>
> Add ‘hggit =‘ to your $home/lib/hgrc [extensions].
>
> Test it out:
>
> % hg clone git://github.com/schacon/hg-git.git
>
>
> It isn’t exactly fast, and there are some cases where cloning using
> https:// instead
> of git:// can be an issue, but it works as a brace|cudgel|kludge until a
> cleaned up
> git is made available for Plan 9.
>
> Now to finish a little transmogrifier git script to trick go get...
>
> -jas
>
>
>
> > On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Skip Tavakkolian <
> skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > a 9fan/git-fan should volunteer to take one for the team,  learn git
> thoroughly, then hide it behind an fs layer. we will revere such a person,
> and nominate him/her for sainthood.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:35 AM Charles Forsyth <
> charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 19 March 2015 at 16:09, <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
> > There is definitely some
> > learning curve and mindset change
> >
> > Just what I want from a little servant that's supposed to help me manage
> some file changes.
>
>
>