dist-git proof of concept phase 1 complete

David Cantrell dcantrell at redhat.com
Tue Dec 15 19:03:04 UTC 2009


On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:

> In my effort to create a proof of concept for using git to manage our
> package source control, I have completed what I am calling phase one,
> that is taking our current dist-cvs and converting it into git format.
>
> pkgs/rpms/<package>/devel is now the git origin/master.  All release
> subdirs have been turned into git branches.  History back to F7, as well
> as the EPEL branches have been converted, from a snapshot of the CVS
> tree I took last week.

Having trouble cloning at the moment, but wanting to take a look at a few
packages in git.

Are there any plans to import history back to FC-1?  Since we're changing
version control systems, it's a nice opportunity to get this in to the version
control system.  Complete history is nice to have on occassion.

> Currently I only have anonymous git:// access setup, as we play with
> some options for authenticated writing.  If you wish to play around with
> the repos, you can access it via:
>
> git://publictest5.fedoraproject.org/git/pkgs/<package>  eg if you wished
> to clone the kernel, you'd type:
>
> git clone git://publictest5.fedoraproject.org/git/pkgs/kernel
>
> Give it a spin, see what you think.

-- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI




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