On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 10:44:32PM +0200, Timo Myyrä wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Timo,

Nice to see you around here :)
I remember chatting with you at *BSD conferences.

> Getting a bit more familiar with got, am I correct that it doesn't yet
> support remote got repositories with local work trees?
> 
> I was planning on having got repository on my lan server and checking
> out local work tree from it. Browsing man page seems to indicate the
> current way is to use git repo on server and fetch it to local got repo
> and then take local work tree from it. Is it so?

The idea is that you'll need one clone of the Git repository per machine.
I have a /git partition on most of my machines which I use to store
Git repositories. I used to do the same with a /cvs partition and
cvsync (nowadays, you would use reposync for CVS instead of cvsync).

> timo
> 
> PS. there also seems to be typo in got.1 man page:
> 
> --- got.1.orig  Wed Dec  2 22:38:58 2020
> +++ got.1       Wed Dec  2 22:39:28 2020
> @@ -2011,7 +2011,7 @@
>  .Pp
>  Alternatively, for quick and dirty local testing of
>  .Nm
> -a new Git repository could be created and populated with files,
> +a new Got repository could be created and populated with files,
>  e.g. from a temporary CVS checkout located at
>  .Pa /tmp/src :
>  .Pp

That's not strictly a typo. The repository format is indeed the one defined
by Git, both in terms of Git's documentation and its implementation.

Got does not have its own repository format. It only has its own work tree
format. That's also why the relevant man pages are called git-repository(5)
and got-worktree(5), not got-repository(5) and got-worktree(5).

Thanks,
Stefan