[Kde-scm-interest] initial port of scripty to git is ready

[Matt Rogers]

On May 21, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Ian Monroe wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've finished an initial port of scripty to git. It can found on
>> Gitorious at http://gitorious.org/scripty. There are several issues,
>> if you want to call them that, with it:
>>
>> 1. completely untested
>
> pinotree says they only way they test is very carefully with the real
> scripty. This makes me sad. Maybe we could get an anonsvn server
> cloned and made writable, then we could have something to test with.
>
>> 2. there is no initial git clone to get a working copy if it is
>> missing since I don't know what the layout of the new git  
>> repositories
>> is going to look like.
>> 3. There is no 'git push' back into the main repository from  
>> scripty's
>> clone
>
> So that we're on the same page... scripty still needs to work with
> i18n in SVN. I was a little concerned when you said its a "git port"
> when its really more of a "git feature addition." I guess I should've
> dented immediately. :)
>
> The idea is that for Amarok or Plasma to switch to git tomorrow, i18n
> needs to stay in SVN. (Possibly i18n could stay in SVN forever, they
> have a very different way of doing things and switching to git should
> be up to them.)
>
> The only thing that needs to be git pushed are the .desktop files that
> scripty famously commits in our SVN repos routinely at the moment.
>
> Ian

*sigh* brilliant. too bad nobody told me this initially when i said i  
would do it.

Is there anything else I should know before I keep working on this? Or  
should I give up now and just let it go back to bitrotting?
--
Matt