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

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Brian Warner
<warner-buildbot at lothar.com> 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.

There's a "brian" branch on repo.or.cz right now:
  http://repo.or.cz/w/buildbot.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/brian
so if you can maintain that branch to be equivalent to your HEAD, I
think we'll be OK.

Now that we're doing regular releases, I'd like to get out of the
business of funneling patches.  Instead, you can simply apply them
directly to his get repo, or I can give more active contributors write
access to the repo, and they can upload their patches directly.

Other git experts on the list should feel free to make suggestions --
I'm only seriously using git with Amanda, and that's in a very
narrowly defined workflow which doesn't match buildbot very well.

We're figuring this out on #buildbot right now.

Dustin

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