Re: Gnus Git repository info and comitters: need updated password

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:26:02 +0000 Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote: 

TL> Even though you are consistent about it: It's
TL> "co*mm*it" :-). I find the "GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1" bit a lit-
TL> tle troubling as the right way(TM) would probably to install
TL> the certificate locally.

I fixed that typo in www/git.gnus.org/index.html.  Thanks.

As far as the SSL certificate, similarly to the DNS issues, I don't run
the gnus.org domain so when Lars has the time to address it he will.

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:51:34 +0200 Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org> wrote: 

AS> Tim Landscheidt writes:

>> Is the repo "stable" now?

AS> Not quite.  Since Ted's push, the packed refs disappeared from the
AS> info/refs file again and a clone via http[1] lacked all tags and
AS> branches except for the master branch.  Maybe somehow
AS> git-update-server-info is not doing its job?

The repo is stable AFAIK.  I can pull an update I've committed; all the
branches and tags show up on a new HTTP clone and on existing HTTP
clones.  Andreas, I'm not sure why it's not working for you.  I'm on
git version 1.7.0.4.

I ran `git repack; git gc' which must have caused this packed ref
cleanup.  I can't find advice on how often to run it (the man page says
we are "encouraged to run this task on a regular basis" but that could
be once per millenium); should it be once a month or once a year given
our 3-4 commits per week?  I've left it monthly for now.

Anyhow, the refs got repacked because gc.packrefs is true by default.  I
set it to "nobare" instead and this shouldn't happen again IIUC.

*** I'd like to make the new Git repo official as of today unless there
are objections. ***

I don't know how soon www.gnus.org can be updated because it's managed
by Lars outside what I can edit, but I think disabling the Gnus CVS
repository will be a pretty good way to indicate it's no longer active.
I can always re-enable it if there's a need.  So the main web site will
be inaccurate for some period, that's all.  I think with the proper
announcement on the Emacs newsgroups+mailing lists and the wiki we can
cope with that.

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:47:15 +0200 Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote: 

AS> I think you should be able to include spaces in the password by
AS> enclosing it in double quotes in the .netrc file.

At least with 

curl 7.19.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15

it doesn't work.  I just tried it.

Ted