Re: Import of Git repositories?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 15:12 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> On 7/27/09, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:44 +0200, Christian Rose wrote:
> >  > What should we do about all pending "please import my Git repository"
> >  > requests, i.e. requests where someone wants their project hosted on
> >  > git.gnome.org?
> >  >
> >  > I've asked Olav, but Olav does not do Git. And I haven't found any
> >  > suitable instructions on http://live.gnome.org/Git, like "this is the
> >  > procedure for new repo requests" or "this is how you as a sysadmin
> >  > import a Git repository" guide on , nor any "this is how you convert
> >  > someone's existing SVN repo into Git for inclusion on git.gnome.org"
> >  > or the like.
> >  >
> >  > Currently, there are quite a few pending requests:
> >  >
> >  > https://www.gnome.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=8945 (libdmapsharing)
> >  > https://www.gnome.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=8946 (Global Menu)
> >  > https://www.gnome.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=8965 (gnome-workspacetime)
> >  > https://www.gnome.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=8986 (Eina)
> >  > https://www.gnome.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=9004 (kupfer)
> >  >
> >  > Currently, it seems my only options is to let these tickets (and more
> >  > of the same kind that come in) bitrot some more, unless someone
> >  > magically speaks up "I know how to do it and am prepared to do it" or
> >  > "I know how to do it and can write instructions for it".
> >
> >
> > Generally:
> >
> >   http://live.gnome.org/Git/NewRepository
> >
> >  Should be sufficient. There's no special sysadmin-only magic needed.
> >
> >  The one thing that maybe isn't completely clear from those instructions
> >  is how to get a repository that has all the branches and tags of the old
> >  repository.
> >
> >   - If you have a tarball of the repository you can just untar it and
> >    push from that
> >
> >   - If you have a remote URL somewhere you can:
> >
> >     git clone --mirror ssh://oldrepo
> >
> >  - Owen
> >
> >  Note: In this usage there is no difference between --mirror and --bare -
> >  that distinction is only for later updates. But --mirror is easier to
> >  remember.
> 
> Ok. Sorry for my stupid question, but the procedure this amounts to,
> for this type of requests is essentially, if I understand this
> correctly:
> 
> 1. Ask the requestor if http://live.gnome.org/ProjectPrerequisites is fulfilled.
> 2. Create the necessary account(s).
> 3. Ask the requestor to run 'create-repository' and 'git clone
> --mirror' himself, as per instructions on
> http://live.gnome.org/Git/NewRepository.

Yes. That seems like a reasonable procedure. Assuming that you mean by 3
something like:

 "Ask the request to use git clone --mirror to create a local copy of
  the original repository, and then import that clone to git.gnome.org
  using the instructions on http://live.gnome.org/Git/NewRepository.";

If someone didn't know anything about git at all then it would be
possible to do the import for them, but if they didn't know anything
about git at all, why would they have an existing repository they want
imported to git.gnome.org? :-)

- Owen