[PATCH koji] Added support for building from git repositories

[rob myers]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 10:12 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:06:04 -0400
> rob myers <rob.myers at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> > does anyone have any ideas about how to abstract or generalize the SCM
> > backend from koji?  the cvs/svn/git SCM backends all perform similar
> > functions and use similar code- what is the best way to make them
> > co-exist with maintainability and extensibility?
> 
> Probably the best way is to create an "scm_callback" or some such.
> Each function that deals with scm calls just calls
> "scm_callback(options)".  A config file setting would define which
> scm_callback to use, either git/svn/hg/cvs/etc...  They would all need
> to take the same options (whether or not they do anything with all the
> options doesn't matter).  This way scm oddities are defined once per
> scm in the callback definition, and the rest of the koji code just
> calls generic scm_callback functions.
> 
> Make sense?

i think so.  i don't have time to code this up right now, but i think it
is worth doing.  maybe i can find some time to develop a patch in the
next couple of weeks.  if anyone wants to beat me to it, that'd be
great. :)

rob.