Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Willing to Assist with Bazaar

[Assaf Gordon]

On 09/11/2014 11:51 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:36:43 -0400
> > From: Assaf Gordon <address@hidden>
> >
> > Eli's previous comment is relevant, perhaps I'm asking the wrong question:
> > What I'm trying to do is get a commit log from a BZR URL listed on Savannah, 
> > here:
> >     http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/
> >
> > If there's another way which does not involve listing branches, please let me 
> > know.
>
> I don't think you can get a log of bzr commits, except in the context
> of a branch.  Bzr is deeply branch-centric in its philosophy and in
> its implementation.  A repo in bzr is just a way to save some disk
> storage by keeping commits common to several branches only once.  But
> the basic history unit is still a branch, even if you have several of
> them in a shared repo.
>
> That said, a branch in bzr is a separate directory, so perhaps you
> could simply produce a commit log in each of these directories?  Would
> that be enough?  (I guess to answer that you will need to tell what
> you intend to do with the log ;-)

That's exactly what I was trying to do... how do I get the list of "each of these 
directories" ?
On the Savannah website they are referred to as branches, but perhaps they are 
just directories.

I'll rephrase the question from a very from a very technical POV:
Given the following URLS of a BZR project (which is what GNU Savannah gives me):
  bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/gnewsense/
  http://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/r/gnewsense

How can I tell (programmatically) which sub-directories or branches (or another 
BZR term) do these repositories have?

I've even considered stooping to HTML parsing, like so:

    $ curl --silent http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnewsense/ \
       | perl -lne 'm/href="([\w-]+)\/">(\1)\/</ && print $1;'
    builder
    debderiver
    deploy-standard-server
    docs
    gnome-system-tools
    metad-installer
    metad-samgee-proposed
    metad
    mrconfig
    old
    packages-deltah
    packages-parkes-cfr
    packages-parkes
    packages-ucclia
    packages
    parkes
    process-package-lists
    wikimig
    win32-loader

But that's not only ugly, but also insufficient as some of these 
sub-directories are not BZR repositories, but have more sub-directories in them.

My goal is to get a log of all the commits in a bzr repository - to be used for 
more statistics about project activity on GNU Savannah.

My starting point is the list of BZR projects on GNU Savannah:
   http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/

My end goal is a the commit log of each project.


Thanks,
 - Assaf