Re: Not able ti push/pull

[Kolbjørn Stuestøl <kolbjoern stuestoel no>]

Simos Xenitellis skreiv:
> 2010/3/22 Kolbjørn Stuestøl <kolbjoern stuestoel no>:
>   
> > I just downloaded my n^_th_ clone to a new folder using
> >
> > $ git clone ssh://USERNAME git gnome org/git/gimp-help-2
> >
> > And mysteriously wonder, I got "Already up-to-date." when running "git
> > pull".
> > No I am going to change some of my po files, running some git commands on
> > them and try "git pull". Hoping it works :-)
> >     
>
> 'git pull --rebase' is used to retrieve any updates that have been
> added to git.gnome.org,
> since you last cloned/pulled.
> It is recommended to use the 'git up' alias instead of 'git pull --rebase'.
> There is an issue when you just use 'git pull' instead of 'git pull
> --rebase', so
> we advise against using the plain 'git pull'.
>
> With 'git commit ...' you add your changes to your local clone.
> One you run 'git push', all your additional commits in your local
> clone will be sent to git.gnome.org.
> Until you do 'git push', you do not affect in any way git.gnome.org.
>
> Once you 'git push', have a look at your addition at
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp-help-2/
>
> A common issue when you 'git push' is that the repository at
> 'git.gnome.org' may have changed;
> for example, another translator may have just added their translation.
> You can verify at
> http://git.gnome.org/  In this case, what you do is 'git up' to update
> your local clone and then 'git push'.
>
>   
> > I'll be back if the git push do not works. I have a slow internet connection
> > (via satellite), so it will take some time.
> >     
>
> The workflow with git is that you establish your local clones of the
> repositories
> you are interested in, and then you 'git up' to update those you need in order
> to submit translations. All of GNOME 2.30 is about 3GB, while GIMP is
> about 300MB.
>
> I am not sure what speeds you get when you 'git clone'. If you get
> slow-ish speeds
> compared to what you get when you download files with Firefox (HTTP protocol),
> it might be easier to have the 'git clone' performed on some Internet
> server and
> then compress it to a ZIP file. Then, you use a download manager (or Firefox)
> to download this single ZIP file and finally extract the repositories.
>
> If cloning speed is an issue to you, ask me for more details on this.
>
> Simos
>   
Thank you a lot for your tips. I have met the right person :-)
I have followed the "http://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/GitHowTo"; 
among others. In addition I have got lots of help from the good and 
clever peoples at the GIMP mailing list (gimp-docs Berkeley 
<gimp-docs lists XCF berkeley EDU>). I am not a programmer, just a 
translator having fun with solving problems.

No, my internet connection is always slow, about 100kb/s on good days. 
(The theoretical download speed 1Mb/s never reached). This has nothing 
to do with GNOME or git. I just starts downloading and then doing other 
things in the meantime. But perhaps I'll give your tip a try some day?

I had to update (against the pot files) and rewrite my po files. At the 
moment I am validating them ---  and alas some errors showed up. I 
therefore have to correct these errors and thereaafter make html files 
to have a look at my work before I run
git add .
git commit -m "[some text]"
and then hopefully git push will work.

With thanks from
Kolbjoern