Belated input from Malcolm who's having a nervous breakdown.

My external drives are being corrupted.  My backup arrangements before 
that weren't "minimal", but are now absent.  It was all working until I 
did a reboot last night to check that the new partition for Starlink 
releases mounted.  I'd made that partition on the external HDD to vacate 
space on my internal drive's soft partition to accommodate the local git
repositories.  Now I can't access my backup system on the same drive.

Don't like the loss of renaming.  The ease of moving files and 
directories was a big plus for svn.

I've never used an RSS feed (but my svn version is 1.5.5).  Can I 
redirect it to a file so that I read the commits when it's suitable for 
me?  Stuff added over a weekend isn't as easy to review as it was under 
CVS.  So I'm hoping for an improvement here.  Now on a Monday you go to 
the normal place only to find no commits in the period (Sunday) and have 
to faff about trying to access a list of the changes made on Friday 
(perhaps I'm missing the fast way in viewvc).  I used to appreciate 
Norman's weekly summary to catch up.  I do refer back to recent commit 
e-mails.

The local repository idea is welcome.  As Tim said, most of my Starlink
contributions now are developed on a laptop at home with no network 
connection.  Having the history locally would be a great advantage. 
Being able to experiment and recall what it was about when I return to 
it much later, is a also welcome feature.

As I said offline, I'll need a summary of the basic operations expected 
for Starlink/JAC use, and including push-me-pull-you branch lines.  So 
I can get by until I have more time to study the documentation.

I don't have a big hang up over the name, although it does make me think 
of Alf Garnett.

Meanwhile after a couple of hours the e2fsck is only 10% through.  I 
could probably regenerate the partitions again quicker, if I bring in 
the old smaller external HDD again.  Methinks it's a USB problem.

Malcolm