Update on Status of Gitlab Migration

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:29 AM Johan Ouwerkerk <jm.ouwerkerk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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).

Many thanks for sending this patch through Johan, it's appreciated.

As one of the options we are looking at involves grouping
repositories, having the ability for kdesrc-build to seamlessly handle
this transition is definitely appreciated.


>
> Regards,
>
> - Johan

Cheers,
Ben