[Frugalware-devel] git: call for testing

[Gabriel C]

VMiklos wrote:
> hi,
>   

Hi,

> it seems that the tools (pacman-tools and pacman-g2) has now the proper
> support to play with git repos. at least it works fine for voroskoi and
> me
>
> so we have 3 tasks to do imho:
>
> 1) it would be good if others could test this, too
>
> see http://wiki.frugalware.org/Git_setup#Testing for instructions
>   

I'll test it today.

> 2) i hope we can be sure about the tools are right (and fix the upcoming
> bugs) and we can have a schedule for switching
>
> i would propose something like:
>
> - jul 4th evening: locking all the repos, starting the convert of
>   current
> - jul 6th evening: if everything goes fine, that should be complete till
>   then
> - jul 7th evening: fix the testsuite and the tools dir (this is the 3rd
>   task, these are minor issues)
> - jul 8th: open for new patches (in git's terminology, commits)
>
> i really hope it won't take more than 3-4 days to switch, i know that
> it's a PITA when you can push any feture/bugfix/secfix for days
>   

Well why would you like to rush something like this ?

Is done when is done , when everything is converted *and* works as it 
should even is done in a week or more.
( of course IMO )

> about stable: this is something that probably voroskoi can decide, given
> that the tool updates are backward-compatible ones, we're not forced to
> switch. we can though, just then updating stable from stable won't work
> :)
>
> about other repos: they're realatively small, we can convert them
> anytime, but i think it would be good to lock them too for those days
> and provide converted repos for them, too
>   

I don't really care about my repo , I think it will go away sometimes 
soon and I'll rebase it to match git for easy merging etc.

> i hope that this is basically ok to you, though the first is obviously:
>   

For me it is.

> please check out the wiki page, try to push an update (include some
> "test patch for git" or so in the commit message) and report how it goes
> :)
>
>   

Will do so :p

> ps: again, repoman rec and repoman push should be almost the same for
> git and it is for darcs, and for other repos, pacman-tools now contains
>   

Hehe , I hope so ;)

> dg, you may want to give it a try till you're not comfortable with git
> :)
>   

Thx for your work on dg , be sure I'll cause I don't really like 
git[1][2] even is faster and has better features ( even I use it for 
some things already ).


crazy



[1] $ ls /usr/bin/git*|wc -l -> 144
[2] call me lazy but I really don't have any time ( at least not any 
time soon ) to figure all the stuff from [1] :p