[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot is switching to Git, dropping CVS mirror?

[Timothee Besset]

Not as easy and mainstream as Subversion, but git is fun to learn.

TTimo

Brian Warner wrote:
> So, Dustin has talked me into switching the Buildbot source code from
> Darcs over to Git. I don't have any experience with Git yet, so this
> will be a learning opportunity :). We haven't figured out how the
> repositories will be set up, but my plan is to have a canonical one on
> buildbot.net just like the old darcs repo. Other developers will have
> trees in other places, of course, but we'll do the releases off the
> buildbot.net tree. So tickets need to remain open until their associated
> changes have been pushed into the trunk branch on the buildbot.net repo.
>
> If I can figure out how, I intend to maintain a darcs mirror (read-only)
> in its current location on buildbot.net .
>
> Would anyone mind if we were to drop the readonly anonymous-CVS mirror
> that lives on sourceforge? I'm not sure the scripts that keep it
> up-to-date are even still working.. I keep seeing ssh permissions
> problems when I push changes into the darcs repo.
>
> With Git (as opposed to Darcs), we should be able to have easier
> feature-branches (since Git can do in-repo branches, without additional
> hosting/mirroring support necessary for each branch). So, e.g. the
> SQL-based status work can take place on a separate branch, but still be
> copied all of our trees at the same time as other patches.
>
> We still have some workflow questions to sort out, as we gain experience
> with the new system. But I expect that this will make it easier to get
> more people involved in Buildbot development, which should help us get
> those OnePointOh features in place sooner.
>
> cheers,
>  -Brian
>
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