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Re: Maintainer for git?


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:14:25AM +0000, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:11:44AM +0100, Alexander Kriegisch wrote:
> > I am wondering if this version will ever make it into the official
> > distribution and be auto-updated when I run setup*.exe. Is there any
> > progress? Just wondering, not demanding anything...
> 
> As the (hopefully) incoming maintaner: yes, I'm very much hoping this
> will become the version provided by the setup*.exes.  There are still a
> few checks I want to run in the name of being sure I'm not making
> anything worse, and some other details to iron out, but I am making
> progress.
> 
> If you (or anyone else) wants to help speed things along, there're a few
> tests you can do; I'm planning on doing these but if someone else can
> it'll save me the time:
> 
> - Install git-cvs and the assorted dependencies mentioned in its
>   setup.hint, and verify you can clone the Cygwin CVS repository.  I've
>   not managed to do this without hitting errors, but I suspect that's
>   because I'm using the tool incorrectly.

I've tried this.  I have `git cvsimport` seemingly working on the
current Git 1.7.9 build, while my build reports the following SHA1
error:

~~~~
$ CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cygwin.com:/cvs/src git cvsimport -C cygwin -r cvs -k cygwin
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Adam/vcs/cygwin/.git/
fatal: refs/remotes/cvs/master: not a valid SHA1
fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born
checkout failed: 32768
~~~~

That's a showstopper, currently, and it'll probably take a little while
to work out where it's going wrong, since I have very little familiarity
with Git's internals.  I am working on it, but I don't have an ETA at
present.

(Of course, if anyone fancies helping out, or having a wonderful
revelation akin to Corinna's earlier OpenSSL one, that would be
exceedingly useful right now.)

> - Install minimal packages (Base + the dependencies listed in the
>   setup.hint files) and check that the basic functionality works.

I've done this, and everything seems to be fine there, at least for the
exceedingly basic tests I've done.

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