Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > I'm talking to some folks who are trying to put JGit into Maven. > > They want to move a lot of egit.core down into JGit, which should > > make it easier to add more commands to the jgit wrapper, making a > > more functional command line tool. Certainly without at least commit (and diff would be nice) I can't go any further with jgit on VMS today. We will have to use jsvn for the interim (our repositories are currently in svn anyway, and jsvn is reasonably full-featured and functional on VMS). But it's nice to have a migration path in the offing. > > Can you write a subclass of our FS class that can identify a > > VMS host and use that VMS specific subclass? > > Should I return to jgit, I could look into this (though I am not a Java programmer). > > If so, we could add a method, e.g.: > > > > boolean canBeLooseRef(String name) > > > > and on VMS when the name falls into that "ODS-5_Syntax > > Interpretation_of_Period" rule set above, we could return false. > > This would then permit a simple change in RefDatabase where we always > > store such refs in the packed-refs file, instead of as a loose file. > > > > It also means we'd have to forgo the ref log, or mangle the reflog > > name. > > > > But it seems to me we could reasonably work around this without > > too much trouble. > > Glad to hear it. I have taken note in case I revive this effort later. Before I sign off entirely, I'd like to mention also that I tried using the ssh protocol without success: A:BG.WORK> git clone ssh://ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/home/ben/git/myrepo.git Initialized empty Git repository in /DSA0/BG/WORK/myrepo/.git java.lang.NullPointerException at com.jcraft.jsch.Session.disconnect(Session.java) at org.spearce.jgit.transport.SshSessionFactory.releaseSession(SshSessionFactory.java) at org.spearce.jgit.transport.SshTransport.close(SshTransport.java) at org.spearce.jgit.pgm.Clone.runFetch(Clone.java) at org.spearce.jgit.pgm.Clone.run(Clone.java) at org.spearce.jgit.pgm.TextBuiltin.execute(TextBuiltin.java) at org.spearce.jgit.pgm.Main.execute(Main.java) at org.spearce.jgit.pgm.Main.main(Main.java) $ dir [.myrepo.^.git...] Directory DSA0:[BG.WORK.myrepo.^.git] branches.DIR;1 config.;3 HEAD.;1 objects.DIR;1 refs.DIR;1 remotes.DIR;1 Total of 6 files. Directory DSA0:[BG.WORK.myrepo.^.git.objects] info.DIR;1 pack.DIR;1 Total of 2 files. Directory DSA0:[BG.WORK.myrepo.^.git.refs] heads.DIR;1 tags.DIR;1 Total of 2 files. Grand total of 3 directories, 10 files. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html