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On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 19:55 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:20:10PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:25 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 08:50 -0400, W. Trevor King wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 01:54:54PM +0200, Ronny Pfannschmidt wrote:
> > > > > > 2. is there any model for storing bigger files at a central place (for
> > > > > > some of my bugs i have multi-megabyte tarballs attached)
> > > > > 
> > > > >   be comment ID "See the tarball at http://yourpage/something.tar.gz"
> > > > > Then to grab the tarball, you'd use:
> > > > >   wget `be show COMMENT-ID | sed -n 's/ *See the tarball at //p'`
> > > > > to grab it.
> > > >
> > > > so the basic idea is to do it completely self-managed
> > > > and have have heterogenous sources of extended data?
> > > 
> > > I assume "extended data" here refers to your tarballs.  What sort of
> > > homogenous source did you have in mind?  The comment body is currently
> > > just a binary blob for non-text/* types, otherwise it's text in
> > > whatever encoding you've configured.
> >
> > some kind of common upload target for a single project in order to have
> > more reliable sources of stuff thats related to bugs but doesnt fit into
> > the normal repository
> 
> Sorry, I'm still having trouble with "doesn't fit into the normal
> repository".  It's going to be large wherever you keep it.  You
> worried about multiple branches all having these big tarballs in them
> and want a "lightweight" checkout without all the big
> tarballs/whatever?  I still think having some sort of "resources"
> directory on an http server somewhere that you link to from comments
> is the best plan.  If you use the
>   be show --xml ID | be-xml-to-mbox | catmutt
> approach, you can even write your comments in text/html and get
> clickable links ;).  A "push big file to remote and commit comment
> linking to it" script would be pretty simple and keep everything
> consistent.
thats probably what i want to do

> 
> > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:57:35AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > > > Ronny Pfannschmidt <Ronny.Pfannschmidt@gmx.de> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > i want to see the combination of the bug data of all branches
> > > > 
> > > > How is a tool to determine the set of “all branches”? The distributed
> > > > VCS model means that set is indeterminate.
> > > 
> > > He could just make a list of branches he likes.
> > > 
> > > Ronny, are you looking to check bug status across several repos on the
> > > fly, or periodically run something (with cron, etc.) to update a
> > > static multi-repo summary?
> >
> > on the fly access
> 
> Then listing bugs in a remote repo will either involve httping tons of
> tiny values files for each bug (slow?) or running some hypothetical
> BE-server locally for each repo speaking some BE-specific protocol
> (complicated?).  And how would you handle e.g. headless git repos,
> where nothing's even checked out?
> 
> You could always run the cron job every 15 minutes, and rely on
> whatever VCS you're using having some intelligent protocol/procedure
> to keep bandwidth down ;).  If you need faster / more-efficient
> updates, you'll probably need to throw out polling altogether and
> setup all involved repos with a "push to central-repo on commit" hook
> or some such.
its intended to run on the place where i publish the repositories anyway