[Kde-scm-interest] Migration of KDESDK to git
Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
kossebau at kde.org
Tue May 22 16:55:21 UTC 2012
Hi Jeremy,
Am Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2012, 13:00:04 schrieb Jeremy Whiting:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
>
> <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> > Those "brave people" are you, Nicolás and Jeremy :) Do you want to pick up
> > your work again and be our experts in the kdesdk migration?
>
> I would love to help out as I am able to. Lots of stuff going on at
> home so don't have a ton of time to devote to this, but I would like
> to see it happen and can spare a few hours a week to help someone get
> up to speed.
Good, thank you! Let's try to spread the tasks on many shoulders where doable,
so things take less time for each and the results are quicker seen.
> > I myself have not really followed any of the migrations to git, so have no
> > real idea about the process. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MovetoGit
> > only helped me a little. Do kdeedu or kdeutils or else have a log of
> > their process which could be followed?
> >
> > I guess it's something like this:
> >
> > 1. Decide which repos should be created from which submodules
> > 2. Write migration rules
> > 3. Setup a test git server with resulting repos to check rules
> > 4. Have everyone okay the rules
> > 5. Migration!
> > a) Put writelock on module in svn
> > b) Create real repos by the rules
> > c) Configure EBN, API DOX, translations systems (what else?) for new
> > repos
> > d) Put "Moved to git" note to module in svn
> > e) Enable write access to git modules
> >
> > Correct?
>
> Yes, that's correct. For 3 we have previously just used scratch repos
> in git.kde.org. No need to set up a separate git server. Otherwise,
> yes that looks like the process we've used in the past.
Okay, so took that as guide to roughly follow for now.
Cheers
Friedrich
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