Re: [bug-gsrc] Bazaar-to-Git mirror available?

[carl hansen]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> [diverted from another (private) ml]

> The instructions at <https://www.gnu.org/software/gsrc> use some
> bzr commands.  I felt discouraged from memories of Bazaar
> crashing my computer (back when Emacs was under Bazaar) w/o
> fail.

We are all scarred by early trauma ; things may have changed since then...


> Luckily, <https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gsrc/> shows
> a link to the Git repo and a command to check out said repo.  I
> ran it but unfortunately, this is what happened:
>
>  $ git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gsrc.git
>  Cloning into 'gsrc'...
>  warning: Sembra che tu abbia clonato un repository vuoto.
>  Checking connectivity... fatto.
>
> Although the command exited successfully, the warning says it
> all (in English: "it seems you have cloned an empty repo");
> nothing in gsrc/ except .git/ (and its normal admin files).
> Rats.
>
> Could you please either:
>
>  (a) enable the Bazaar-to-Git repo mirroring
>      (or whatever the process is called), or

sorry, for simplicity, no. "Unnecessary redundancy is the hobgoblin of
software engineering."

>
>  (b) remove the link from the project page
>      so that it does not fool others?

If I can figure out how, I will.

> (In the meantime, i'll try the ‘bzr clone’ command.  GSRC is not
> a beast like Emacs, so maybe all will go well this time --
> fingers crossed!)
>
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hope it worked for you. Sorry for delayed reply.