Questions about the git repo

[Thomas Nemer]

Hello Jasem,


Thank you for your answers, they are very useful.

1. Ok, I understand tags must not be trusted on the repo, but I still
don't understand the way I can find the commit used to build the repo
version, is it the commit containing the changelog (1d64d8814 KStars
v3.3.9 Change log
<https://cgit.kde.org/kstars.git/commit/?id=1d64d88142fd7f510fc000695e4475e86010298f>)
? What about the commits between this one and the commit stating the
beginning of the 3.4.0 cycle (e60b54ec2 KStars v3.4.0 cycle begins
<https://cgit.kde.org/kstars.git/commit/?id=e60b54ec25a191428e951566380b072273880bc1>),
are these within the 3.3.9 cycle or unofficially part of the 3.4.0?

2. I've cloned from anongit as written here.
<https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/KStars/Building_KStars_KF5>

3. Ok, I understand. How do you handle contributions, is there some
merge/pull request process?


Sorry for all the newbie questions, I hope I can be of use someday.


Have a nice day,

Thomas Nemer.


Le 12/01/2020 à 13:32, Jasem Mutlaq a écrit :
> Hello Thomas,
>
> 1. The build date is whenever the package was built. The tag system is
> problematic since old tags were for KDE version, not KStars. So you
> see a v3.4.0 tag from 2005! So tags are not used in the KStars release
> cycle.
> 2. Were you fetching from anongit or github?
> 3. Yes we directly work on master. There is CI that builds and informs
> us of any issues that occurs in master.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 12:28 PM Thomas Nemer
> <thomas.nemer at fortytwo.fr <mailto:thomas.nemer at fortytwo.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Kstars team!
>
>     I'm actually getting my hands on the code base, and as an exercise
>     I'm trying to build the same version as the one from arch linux
>     repo. This way I'll be able to compare the repo's version to my
>     own build, be sure my IDE is properly configured and that I
>     understood how to build Kstars properly. I have a few questions
>     about your git workflow :
>
>       * I've installed Kstars from arch linux repo, and when I look at
>         the about tab, I can read "v3.3.9 Build:
>         2020-01-01T21:08:10Z". But when I look to the repo's tag list,
>         I find only old tags, multiple versioning conventions, and no
>         3.3.9 tag. How do you know which commit was used to build v3.3.9?
>       * I've clone the repo, and I only see the master branch, but on
>         https://cgit.kde.org/kstars.git/refs/heads I can see lots of
>         branches, how comes I can't fetch those?
>       * I would've expected the master branch to only contain tagged
>         commits, some dev or develop branch to contain non-tagged
>         commits, and feature branches to contain ongoing work. But it
>         seems the master branch is the only one active, do you work
>         directly on the master or is there some mirror repo I don't
>         see on which there's some CI before commits get integrated
>         into the master branch?
>
>     Thanks for your time and work, Have a nice day, Thomas Nemer.
>
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