On Mar 31, 2015, at 04:48 PM, Antoine Musso wrote: >I have only been introduced to git-buildpackage and using Jenkins to more or >less automatically build them when proposing a patch or a change is merged.
Really, git-dpm is just the patch manager. There are a few others, but I found git-dpm to be the most straightforward and fool-proof (where "fool" is defined as Barry :) of the lot. It's also relatively easy to learn and remember, the latter which might not be as much of a problem when we're using it regularly. git-dpm makes it easier to manage your quilt patches, but git-buildpackage is still the tool you'll use to build your git-maintained packages. E.g., here's an alias I use to do test builds of packages under development: gitbp is aliased to `git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new --git-export=WC -S -us -uc' >> * Do we migrate all packages at once or one-at-a-time as needed? > > From past experience in migrating a huge svn tree, it is usually easier to > move them in batches as developers request it. If you get to find some > volunteers, they will by the first line dealing with potential issues and > updating the doc. Will make it easier for others. I tend to agree that we can do it piecemeal, at least at first until we're sure the tools (both conversion and operational) are working properly. I definitely don't want to have a long tail of svn laggards, so there should be a specific time where we convert even the less active projects. >> * Do we try to keep all svn history, or just upload history? > >I tend to like the history, the blame and commit message logs are sometime >useful to get the context of a change/line of code. I found it adequate to just convert the upload history, but don't have any objections to keeping all the package history, if the conversion can be done easily and with high fidelity, to whatever git regime we end up adopting. I'm not sure I'm personally interested in working on that (import-dscs.py is good enough for me), but I'd be happy to test out anybody else's contributions or recipes. Cheers, -Barry
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