Update on Status of Gitlab Migration

[Johan Ouwerkerk]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:49 AM Johan Ouwerkerk <jm.ouwerkerk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > We may need to do on-the-fly conversion of the kde: repo paths if they
> > won't be expressible as 'kde:foo' in the future, but we should have the
> > information needed to do this in kdesrc-build to make this happen
> > on-the-fly.
> >
>
> Yes, this should be fairly straight forward: we could do a `git remote
> set-url` based on what the repo metadata tells us before updating a
> local clone. In fact: we could build this right now and sell it as
> "automagically recover your upstream".  :)
>
> I might try to hack something up tomorrow or monday for that.
>

A basic version of this is now available via:
https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdesrc-build/-/merge_requests/27
With this feature sysadmin should now be free to change the repopath
value in the metadata YAML and kdesrc-build will reconfigure the
remote URL appropriately automatically. This works as long as the same
`kde:$path` expression works for both fetch and push, i.e. the layout
on the anongit.kde.org network must match with the layout of
git.kde.org/invent.kde.org. If necessary a simple path prefix change
could still work with a minor update to the pushInsteadOf mapping,
e.g. when repos on invent are mapped to kde/ <path>  instead of
/<path>.

You can also experiment with setting invent.kde.org as the push URL by
setting x-invent-kde-push-urls to true in your rc file. The effect
should be visible through git remote -vv afterwards. (Disable the
setting and re-run again afterwards because this will obviously break
your push URLs as long as the Gitlab migration hasn't completed yet).

Regards,

- Johan