There are also some details about MozReview with git-cinnabar at: http://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mozreview/install-git.html
though it doesn't seem to appear in the contents sidebar on the left, so it would be nice to make it more discoverable. (Though I suppose Phabricator will be the tool we use soonish...) - Ryan On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Jeff Muizelaar <jmuizel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I would recommend > https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/wiki/Mozilla:-A- > git-workflow-for-Gecko-development. > > The other places should probably be updated to point at that. > > -Jeff > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Ethan Glasser-Camp > <eglasserc...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. It seems from these threads that there > is > > a more-or-less canonical way to use git to hack on Firefox. Where can I > > find out more about it? > > > > Looking online, the only information I could find was at > > https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/wiki/Mozilla:-A- > git-workflow-for-Gecko-development. > > Is that the best source of information? I didn't see anything under > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide, > > http://mozilla-version-control-tools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, or > > https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Ethan > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com> > > wrote: > > > >> This message was inspired by the `mach try` thread but is off-topic > >> there so I think deserves its own thread. > >> > >> It seems to me that a lot of people are now assuming a cinnabar repo > >> is the canonical way for git users to develop on mozilla-central. If > >> we want to make this mozilla policy I don't really have objections, > >> but I think that if we do that, we should maintain a canonical git > >> repo that is built using cinnabar, rather than having everybody have > >> their own "grafted" version of a cinnabar repo. The problem with the > >> latter approach is that different people will have different SHAs for > >> the same upstream commit, thus making it much harder to share repos. > >> > >> I've tried using cinnabar a couple of times now and the last time I > >> tried, this was the dealbreaker for me. My worfklow often involves > >> moving a branch from one machine to another and the extra hassle that > >> results from mismatched SHAs makes it much more complicated than it > >> needs to be. gecko-dev doesn't have this problem as it has a canonical > >> upstream that works much more like a regular git user expects. > >> > >> As an aside, I also think that the cinnabar workflow as it exists now > >> actually demotes git to more of a "second-class citizen". > >> Conceptually, if you're using gecko-dev, everything works exactly as a > >> git user would expect, and only when you need to push to official > >> mozilla hg repos do you need to overcome the vcs translation hurdle > >> (which things like moz-git-tools help with). However if you use > >> cinnabar the vcs translation is more woven into your everyday git > >> commands (e.g. git pull) and you need to be more consciously aware of > >> it. This makes it harder to use whatever your normal git workflow is, > >> which is why I claim it demotes git to second-class. It would be great > >> if we could come up with a way to avoid this but honestly since I > >> haven't used a cinnabar workflow for any significant period of time I > >> haven't given much thought as to how to go about doing this. > >> > >> Discussion welcome! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> kats > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dev-platform mailing list > >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
