KDE git docs for dummies ? WAS: Re: splitting up kdebase in git

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Friday 21 January 2011 22.44.49 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 20, 2011, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> >> Correct, it is Gerrit which is a more git based alternative to
> >> Reviewboard. http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
> > 
> > does it have benefits over reviewboard? having just toyed with a bit
> > after lunch today, it seems like it's useful to drive the entire
> > integration workflow and not just smaller or one-off patches?
> > 
> > if that's true, would gerrit be a workable replacement for reviewboard
> > once everything is moved over to git? would it be integratable with
> > identify.kde.org?
> 
> Whilst Gerrit can integrate with KDE Identity (identity.kde.org) it
> has some pretty severe technical issues.
> 
> Implementation wise, it runs it's own sshd implementation (written in
> Java) on a non standard port. It uses this to allow you to to publish
> review requests by pushing to it using a Git client. However, it
> implements the git protocol itself as well, and uses it to lie about
> the push being accepted by git, storing the changes in it's own
> database. In terms of accessing the sshd implementation it provides,
> it implements storage of SSH keys in it's own way as well, which means
> information has to be duplicated.
> 
> In addition, when trying to test it myself, it's installation
> procedure failed using MySQL, I was only able to test it using it's
> integrated H2 database.
> 
> This is completely unpalatable in terms of security and technical on
> KDE servers in my opinion as a sysadmin. Not sure what the others
> think of it however.

We use it at work and my (somewhat clowdy after 6 months of paternety leave) 
memory of it was that it was quite unintuiative to work with and hard to 
understand what you were supposed to do when doing anything else then the 
normal pull/push thing.

/Regards
Torgny