From aa17d394a8b7ee48e377704df49951c40ec9ed6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:58:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Housekeeping on Wednesday, 2nd of December, Anno Domini MMIX, at the hour of the Monkey Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin --- blog.rss | 48 ++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- source-1236479389.txt | 25 ------------------------- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 source-1236479389.txt diff --git a/blog.rss b/blog.rss index 330b096e40..605b1e0c8f 100644 --- a/blog.rss +++ b/blog.rss @@ -5,9 +5,24 @@ http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=blob_plain;hb=blog;f=index.html A few stories told by Dscho -Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:11:52 +0200 +Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:58:05 +0100 en-us +Avoiding to get angry +http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=blob_plain;hb=blog;f=index.html#1259765885 +http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=blob_plain;hb=blog;f=index.html#1259765885 +Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:58:05 +0100 +

+It seems that despite many intelligent people realizing that the recent +change to special case http, https and ftp was a terrible decision, it +seems that there is enough resistance left on the Git mailing list to +keep the brain-dead current state. +

+The Git mailing list is definitely giving me more grief than joy these +days.]]> + + Git will never be user-friendly http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=blob_plain;hb=blog;f=index.html#1255867912 http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=blob_plain;hb=blog;f=index.html#1255867912 @@ -300,36 +315,5 @@ April.

Oh well, the joys of being excited by several competing projects! ☺]]> - -New Git for Windows version -http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=blob_plain;hb=blog;f=index.html#1236479389 -http://repo.or.cz/w/git/dscho.git?a=blob_plain;hb=blog;f=index.html#1236479389 -Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:29:49 +0100 -

-Phew. That was quite a day, almost exclusively spent on finishing that -installer. The worst part: updating GCC seemed not to be such a good idea -after all... -

-For Windows, we need to use the printf format %I64u (which is -non-standard, in the common way of Microsoft) if you want to print 64-bit -wide unsigned numbers. The rest of the world accepts the standard %llu. -

-After upgrading to the new GCC, a lot of warnings appeared, complaining -about %I64u. The warnings went away when I replaced the format with -%llu. -

-Being the naive I am, I mistook that for a sign that we could finally go -more standards-compliant. -

-However, it only means that we have to live with the warnings for now, as -the C runtime provided on Windows still strongly disagrees with standards -(and it has to continue to do so, lest it break existing programs). -

-Sigh. -

-At least I have the feeling that I caught the most important bugs before -releasing.]]> - diff --git a/source-1236479389.txt b/source-1236479389.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3cd069e106..0000000000 --- a/source-1236479389.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -New Git for Windows version - -Phew. That was quite a day, almost exclusively spent on finishing that -installer. The worst part: updating GCC seemed not to be such a good idea -after all... - -For Windows, we need to use the printf format ''%I64u'' (which is -non-standard, in the common way of Microsoft) if you want to print 64-bit -wide unsigned numbers. The rest of the world accepts the standard ''%llu''. - -After upgrading to the new GCC, a lot of warnings appeared, complaining -about ''%I64u''. The warnings went away when I replaced the format with -''%llu''. - -Being the naive I am, I mistook that for a sign that we could finally go -more standards-compliant. - -However, it only means that we have to live with the warnings for now, as -the C runtime provided on Windows still strongly disagrees with standards -(and it has to continue to do so, lest it break existing programs). - -Sigh. - -At least I have the feeling that I caught the most important bugs before -releasing. -- 2.11.4.GIT