Re: NetworkManager core daemon moved to git

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:49 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 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.

I assume you mean --use-log-author?  That appears to only look for
"From:" and "Signed-off-by" for the author, not the Gnome ChangeLog
format used in the commit messages like:

2008-12-12  Dan Williams <my email com>

So I doubt it will buy me anything without me doing some perl hackery.

> > > 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.

The on-disk fdo repo (as mbiebl inspected) has one there.  The reason
the repo wasn't showing up on git.fdo (and why I added that file just
for kicks) was likely that I haven't set the repo description.

Dan

> > > 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
> 
>