From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 20:39:30 -0700 Message-ID: <4292A1F2.7020606@zytor.com> References: <20050511012626.GL26384@pasky.ji.cz> <1116384951.5094.83.camel@dhcp-188.off.vrfy.org> <1116611932.12975.22.camel@dhcp-188> <1116615600.12975.33.camel@dhcp-188> <428E49DD.406@zytor.com> <428E4D8C.3020606@zytor.com> <1116626652.12975.118.camel@dhcp-188> <428E745C.30304@zytor.com> <4292A08A.5050108@cobite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kay Sievers , Petr Baudis , Thomas Glanzmann , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue May 24 05:39:01 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaQFj-0008T8-Fa for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 05:38:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261353AbVEXDkL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 23:40:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261350AbVEXDkL (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 23:40:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([209.128.68.124]:25511 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261353AbVEXDj6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2005 23:39:58 -0400 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-169-23-106.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.169.23.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j4O3dUNt014288 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 23 May 2005 20:39:31 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: David Mansfield In-Reply-To: <4292A08A.5050108@cobite.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.8 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org David Mansfield wrote: > > Ok. I'll tell you. It means that the committer uses bad practices in > tagging ;-) It generally means that force tag (cvs tag -F ) was > used on a specific file. Here's the scenario: > > cvsps is trying to associate a tag to a specific commit. But in the cvs > world this is not always at all possible. If, for example, a commit > made and all files are tagged. Now some random file is modified and > committed. Then, a bug is found in a file from the previously tagged > set, say the file 'memdisk/init32.asm'. The bug is fixed, committed and > the tag is MOVED for _just that file_ forward to the new version. Now > there is no commit that can be associated with the tag. In this case, > cvsps believes this to be a 'FUNKY' tag. There is a more pathological > case having to do with 'INVALID' tags... It's enough to make a grown > man cry. > This is only pathological if the tag now represents a state that never actually existed in the history of the repository. I don't believe there are any such cases in the syslinux repository; I could be wrong, but I am *highly* sceptical. > > I accept patches ;-) Honestly, handling binary data should be trivial I > just haven't had the interest, and surprisingly noone else on the > internet ever has. The only binary file in the kernel appears to be the > logo.gif, according to Ingo. > > [ discussion on working around broken handling of binary files in cvsps] > Actually, as long as we can create the tree that exists between each changeset, we should be OK. > > Hey, a polished turd is only so shiny... cvsps is a 99% solution [to > the problem of extracting metatdata from cvs] only and cvs makes the > other 1% impossible. > No sh*t... -hpa