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

[Assaf Gordon]

(combining several questions at once)

On 09/10/2014 03:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:52:39 +0300 From: Eli Zaretskii
> > > > The command is "bzr branches".
> > > I can't get this to work - perhaps I'm using an incorrect URL ?
> > Which version of bzr do you have?  I think there's a built-in
> > command in latest bzr versions that shadows the one I meant.

Tested (and doesn't work) with bzr 2.6.0dev2 on Debian 7 and 2.7.0dev1 on 
Ubuntu 14.04 .
I'm now thinking that perhaps it has something to do with GNU Savannah's 
configuration of hosting multiple projects/branches under one repository.
But still - I'm looking for a way to get the list, as it seems most BZR 
projects do use this method.

> Also, if you can log in to the machine that physically holds the
> repository, then you can do this from the repository's directory:
>
> find . -name branch.conf
>
> Every directory which has a branch.conf file in a .bzr subdirectory
> is a bzr branch.
That's a good tip, I might have to resort to that.
But I am trying to do that using only publicly available repositories and 
anonymous user access.


On 09/10/2014 03:56 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 10 2014, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> > But the current situation is that I'm paying for this VM myself
> > and that's what I have, and I was hoping to be able to do these
> > tasks on this machine.
>
> Can't you clone the repository somewhere else, gzip it, and transfer
> to the machine?  Or maybe you have already thought about it...

I might have to resort to that, but I was trying to do it for multiple projects 
and vcs'es on that one machine.
So far BZR is the only mechanism that I couldn't get to "just work".

On 09/10/2014 04:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Btw, what do you need the list of branches for?  Perhaps there's
> another way of doing what you want without actually knowing which
> branches are in a repo.

What I'm trying to do is: given a project hosted on GNU Savannah, I want to get 
the log of commits for that projects.
If there is such a concept as "main" branch (akin to "master" on git), it would 
suffice to just get the commits from that branch.

These are the projects:
 http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/

I'm looking for a way to do it programatically, with a script, with anonymous 
access.

- Assaf