Re: compile/install of git

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Mark Wong <markwkm(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/18/2010 10:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> > Dave Page wrote:
>>> >> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>  wrote:
>>> >>> FYI, I have compiled/installed git 1.7.3.rc2 on my BSD/OS 4.3.1 machine
>>> >>> with the attached minor changes.
>>> >> I thought you were replacing that old thing with pile of hardware that
>>> >> Matthew was putting together?
>>> > Matthew was busy this summer so I am going to try to get some of his
>>> > time by January to switch to Ubuntu.  And some people are complaining we
>>> > will lose a BSD test machine once I switch.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Test machines belong in the buildfarm. And why would they complain about
>>> losing a machine running a totally out of date and unsupported OS? Maybe
>>> you should run BeOS instead.
>>
>> Well, I can run tests for folks before they apply a patch and "red" the
>> build farm.  I can also research fixes easier because I am using the OS,
>> rather than running blind tests.  I am just telling you what people told
>> me.
>
> I've been slowly trying to rebuild something that was in use at the
> OSDL to test patches.  I just proofed something that I think works
> with the git repository:
>
> http://207.173.203.223:5000/patch/show/48
>
> If you click on the PASS or FAIL text, it will display the SHA1,
> author and commit message that the patch was applied to.  Think this
> will be useful?

Seems interesting. You might need to take precautions against someone
uploading a trojan, though.

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