Re: New module import to git.gnome.og

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:22 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 03/17/2009 11:59 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Method 2
> > ========
> >
> >   A) You make sure you have a local copy with all tags and
> >      branches you want pushed and no other tags and branches
> >      If you already have a public repository, do:
> >
> >       git clone --bare --mirror<origin>
> >
> >      If you don't have a public repository, use 'git branch'
> >      and 'git tag -l' to make sure that things look good,
> >      and 'git branch -D' and 'git tag -d' to remove unwanted
> >      stuff.
> >
> >   B) You upload a tarball of that to an import script
> >
> >      tar cfz . | ssh<user>@svn.gnome.org import-git-repos exampleproj
> >
> >   C) We unpack the input, figure out what is going on, create the
> >      repository, push into it, enable the commit hooks.
> >
> > Downsides:
> >
> >   - A bit more work to write the script
> >   - Less flexible
> >   - Still possible to screw up the import by getting A) wrong.
> >
> > Opinions? Other ways we could handle it?
> 
> git-bundle instead of tar?

Maybe I'm missing how to git-bundle, but packing the entire current
repository with git-bundle seems to require:

git bundle create exampleproj.bundle \
     $(git-rev-parse --symbolic-full-name --branches --tags)

or something along those lines; the idea of the tar was that it would
maybe be inefficient (upload the working copy, .o files you have around
etc, some tarballs you make distchecked...), but it would be fairly
fool-proof.

- Owen