Re: NetworkManager core daemon moved to git

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel holtmann org>]

Hi Dan,

> > > The NetworkManager core daemon (the "NetworkManager" svn repository) has
> > > been moved to git.freedesktop.org.
> > > 
> > > Since both the applet and the VPN daemons still require translation,
> > > they still live at svn.gnome.org.  The VPN daemons have been moved from
> > > inside the NetworkManager repository to their own top-level repositories
> > > at svn.gnome.org.  All development of the core daemon's 0.6 branch, the
> > > 0.7 branch, and 0.8/trunk will happen in the git repositories at
> > > git.freedesktop.org.  Again, the applet and VPN daemons will continue to
> > > live in gnome SVN for the time being.
> > > 
> > > Using git will allow us to, for example, quickly develop targeted
> > > features and fixes in topic branches, and integrate them when they are
> > > ready and pass tests with flying colors.  We can more easily prototype
> > > things to see if they are good ideas, or if they are even feasible in
> > > the first place.  It's faster to checkout and update that Subversion.
> > > git cures cancer too.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > NetworkManager 
> > > -----------------------------
> > > git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git
> > 
> > are you 100% sure you wanna screw up the authorship of the commits like
> > this?
> 
> No.
> 
> > commit 0f8c3fb9ec15366b359a83737b88e47ff7d79a14
> > Author: dcbw <dcbw 4912f4e0-d625-0410-9fb7-b9a5a253dbdc>
> > Date:   Tue Dec 9 19:47:10 2008 +0000
> > 
> > You can have git-svn convert this into nice Dan Williams
> > <dcbw redhat com> author details.
> 
> I used the current gnome git mirror and pushed the resulting branches to
> fdo.  Presumably git-mirror.g.o had this already set up.  Perhaps they
> didn't, and thus perhaps I have to do a git-svn checkout myself.

yes, you should stop the automatic import/mirror and do the initial
conversion by yourself.

> > Also the git-daemon-export-ok doesn't belong in the top-level directory.
> 
> That was just there when Adam and were trying to figure out what magic
> cgit needs to get the NM repo to show up on git.freedesktop.org.

It belongs into the .git directory normally.

> > You might wanna check on how you actually create repositories on remote
> > servers. Create a bare repository with shared access on the server and
> > then only put the git-daemon-export-ok there. You don't have to commit
> > it.
> 
> I certainly don't have root on git.fdo, and thus I can't create the
> original project.  Here's what I did:
> 
> git clone from gnome git mirror of NM SVN
> create local branches for remote branches
> inspect everything
> git push <fdo git> master
> git push <fdo git> other branches
> 
> Is there something wrong with that procedure?

You might wanna create your own tree locally with git-svn and then force
a push to the remote trees (with a new HEAD) to overwrite everything
that is in there. Import is that you don't start with the mirror as
base.

Regards

Marcel