diff --git a/docs/libraries.md b/docs/libraries.md index b0f0981..ab14d36 100644 --- a/docs/libraries.md +++ b/docs/libraries.md @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Libraries are best dealt with as [Git submodules]. [build libraries]:https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules -Git submodules leak complexity and surprising and inconvenient behavior +Git submodules leak complexity and surprising and inconvenient behaviour all over the place if one is trying to make a change that affects multiple modules simultaneously. But having your libraries separate from your git repository results in non portable surprises and complexity. Makes it hard @@ -134,19 +134,29 @@ tag, not by branch, and the names of branches are only used to communicate a particular project on the submodule to other people working on that project as their master project. -Branch names are not useful within a submodule, though -submodule may well be, from the point of view of the primary -developers, not a submodule but a module in its own right, used as -a submodule in many different modules, so for them, branch names -will be useful. But when you are modifying the submodules in a -project as a single project, making related changes in the module -and submodule, the names belong in the primary project module, -Within the submodule, commits are nameless with detached head, -the name in primary module naming a group of related commits in -several submodules, which commits do not usually receive -independent names of their own, even though the commits have to -be made within the submodule, not in the containing module which -names the complete set of interrelated commits. +Branch names within a submodule, though very useful when you working +on a submodule, are not useful to the project as a whole, and except for the +primary fork name, should be temporary and local., not pushed to the +project repository, But when you are modifying the submodules in a +project as a single project, making related changes in the module and +submodule, the shared names that are common to all developers belong in +the primary project module,and when you have done with a submodule, + +```bash +git switch --detach +``` + +Within the submodule, commits are nameless with detached head, except +when you are working on them, the name in primary module naming a +group of related commits in several submodules, which commits do not +usually receive independent names of their own, even though the commits +have to be made within the submodule, not in the containing module +which names the complete set of interrelated commits. + +The submodule commits may well belong to different branches and tags in +the superproject, but in the submodules, they are nameless in that all the +submodule commits wind up attached to the same branch, your submodule tracking +branch. In this case, working on submodules as part of a single larger project, you should set @@ -182,19 +192,24 @@ Make sure things still work. Get everything working. (You do have unit test, r then: ```bash -git submodule foreach --recursive 'git push origin HEAD:«your-tracking-branch»' git submodule foreach --recursive 'git switch --detach' +git submodule foreach --recursive 'git push origin HEAD:«your-tracking-branch»' ``` +You pull a named release of the project that is a submodule of your project +from `upstream`, diddling with it to make it work with your project, then +you push it to `origin` as a nameless commit, though you probably gave the +various commits you made while working on it temporary and local names +with `switch -c yet-another-idea` All of which, of course, presupposes you have already set unit tests, upstream, origin, and your tracking branch appropriately. -Even if your local modifications are nameless in your local -submodule repository, on your remote submodule repository they -need to have a name to be pushed to, hence you need to have a -tracking branch in each of your remote images of each of your -submodules, and that tracking branch will need to point to the root -of a tree of all the nameless commits that the names and commits +Even if your local modifications are nameless in your local submodule +repository, on your remote submodule repository they need to have a name +to be pushed to, hence you need to have a tracking branch in each of your +remote images of each of your submodules, and that tracking branch will +need to point to the root of a tree of all the nameless commits that the +names and commits in your superproject that contains this submodules point to. You want `.gitmodules` in your local image of the repository to @@ -241,7 +256,7 @@ means you can incorporate unlimited amounts of stuff, and Git only has to check the particular module that you are actually working on. Maybe subtrees would work better if one was working on a project where -several parts were being developed at once, thus a project small enough +several parts wer e being developed at once, thus a project small enough that scaling is not an issue. But such projects, if successful, grow into projects where scaling is an issue. And if you are a pure consumer of a library, you don't care that you are breaking the git model, because you are diff --git a/docs/pandoc_templates/style.css b/docs/pandoc_templates/style.css index 95fdd89..30ee994 100644 --- a/docs/pandoc_templates/style.css +++ b/docs/pandoc_templates/style.css @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ body { max-width: 30em; margin-left: 1em; + font-family: "Georgia, Times New Roman", Times, serif; + font-style: normal; + font-variant: normal; + font-weight: normal; + font-stretch: normal; + font-size: 16px; } table { border-collapse: collapse; diff --git a/docs/rootDocs/README.md b/docs/rootDocs/README.md index 2657d86..d723fd4 100644 --- a/docs/rootDocs/README.md +++ b/docs/rootDocs/README.md @@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ Never --sign any Gpg key related to this project. --lsign it. Never check any Gpg key related to this project against a public gpg key repository. It should not be there. +`gitconfig` disallows merges unless you have told `gpg` to trust the public +key corresponding to the private key that signed the tip of the root. So part +of the pull request process is getting the puller to trust your public key, and +you will not be able to pull updates unless you tell `gpg` to trust the key that +is in the root directory as `public_key.gpg`. + + Never use any email address on a gpg key related to this project unless it is only used for project purposes, or a fake email, or the email of an enemy. We don't want Gpg used to link different email diff --git a/docs/set_upstream.sh b/docs/set_upstream.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50d1750 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/set_upstream.sh @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +#!/bin/bash +set -e +set -x +echo intended to be run in the event of moving repositories +git remote -v +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/wallet.git +git submodule foreach --recursive 'git remote -v' +cd libsodium +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/libsodium.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium.git +cd .. +cd mpir +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/mpir.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/BrianGladman/mpir.git +cd .. +cd wxWidgets +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/wxWidgets.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git +cd .. +cd wxWidgets/3rdparty/catch +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/Catch.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/Catch.git +cd ../../.. +cd wxWidgets/3rdparty/nanosvg +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/nanosvg +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/nanosvg +cd ../../.. +cd wxWidgets/3rdparty/pcre +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/pcre +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/pcre +cd ../../.. +cd wxWidgets/src/expat +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/libexpat.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/libexpat.git +cd ../../.. +cd wxWidgets/src/jpeg +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/libjpeg-turbo.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/libjpeg-turbo.git +cd ../../.. +cd wxWidgets/src/png +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/libpng.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/libpng.git +cd ../../.. +cd wxWidgets/src/tiff +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/libtiff.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/libtiff.git +cd ../../.. +cd wxWidgets/src/zlib +git remote set-url origin git@cpal.pw:~/zlib.git +git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/wxWidgets/zlib.git +cd ../../.. +winConfigure.sh diff --git a/docs/social_networking.md b/docs/social_networking.md index 8aab0e7..4fc98d8 100644 --- a/docs/social_networking.md +++ b/docs/social_networking.md @@ -264,6 +264,47 @@ So, you can navigate to whole world’s public conversation through approved links and reply-to links – but not every spammer, scammer, and shill in the world can fill your feed with garbage. + approved links and reply-to links – but not every spammer, scammer, and + shill in the world can fill your feed with garbage. + +-## Algorithm and data structure. +- +-For this to work, the underlying structure needs to be something based on +-the same principles as Git and git repositories, except that Git relies on +-SSL and the Certificate Authority system to locate a repository, which +-dangerous centralization would fail under the inevitable attack. It needs to +-have instead for its repository name system a Kademlia distributed hash +-table within which local repositories find the network addresses of remote +-repositories on the basis of the public key of a Zooko identity of a person +-who pushed a tag or a branch to that repository, a branch being a thread, +-and the branch head in this case being the most recent response to a thread +-by a person you are following. +- +-So the hashes of identities are tracked by the distributed hash table, but the +-hashes of posts are not, because that would result in excessive numbers of +-lookups in a table that would very quickly hit its scaling limits. The hashes +-of posts are tracked by the repository of the feed that you are looking at, so +-require only local lookup, which is faster and less costly than a distributed +-lookup. This is equivalent to a fully distributed hash table where the key is +-not hash of post, but global name of area of interest, zooko nickname, +-zooko public key followed by his human readable thread name (branch +-name or tag name in git terminology) followed by hash of post, so that +-items that are likely to be looked up together are likely to be located +-physically close together on the same disk and will be sent along the same +-network connection. +- +-The messages of the people you are following are likely to be in a +-relatively small number of repositories, even if the total number of +-repositories out there is enormous and the number of hashes in each +-repository is enormous, so this algorithm and data structure will scale, and +-the responses to that thread that they have approved, by people you are not +-following, will be commits in that repository, that, by pushing their latest +-response to that thread to a public repository, they did the equivalent of a +-git commit and push to that repository. +- +-Each repository contains all the material the poster has approved, resulting +-in considerable duplication, but not enormous duplication. +- The underlying protocol and mechanism is that when you are following Bob, you get a Bob feed from a machine controlled by Bob, or controlled by someone that Bob has chosen to act on his behalf, and that when Bob