On Sunday, May 17, 2020 3:47:35 AM PDT Ben Cooksley wrote: > Good morning all, > > Over the past 24 hours Sysadmin has been busy working on transitioning > everything from git.kde.org over to invent.kde.org (Gitlab) a process > which we have now essentially completed. > All repositories with the exception of personal (scratch and clone) > repositories have been migrated successfully now. We intend to migrate > the remaining personal repositories over the coming week. > > You should all be aware of the following: > > -- Work Branches -- > > As part of the transition to Gitlab, we have also simultaneously > rolled out work branches. > > These are branches that live within the normal repositories, but do > not have notification hooks triggered on them. This means that they > will not close bugs, send email or be announced on IRC. As such, they > can also be force pushed. > Any branch prefixed with the name 'work/' is considered to be a work branch. > > It is important to note that the server will enforce a maximum number > of 100 commits divergence between a work branch and any other normal > branch (those not prefixed with work/) in the repository. > This is necessary to protect our systems when the work branch is > merged to a normal/release branch (which is when the hooks will > process all of those commits) > > We therefore do not recommend work branches for long term work such as > GSoC projects or other significant items of work - normal branches > should be used for these. > > All other branches will continue to be subject to normal commit hook > processing, and cannot be force pushed. > > -- Migration Helpers -- > > To assist with the migration to Gitlab, Sysadmin earlier mentioned a > series of helper tools which could be used to clone repositories > conveniently from Gitlab as well as migrate existing clones. > > To set these up, you will need a clone of 'sysadmin/repo-metadata' on > your local system, along with Python3 and PyYAML (packaged as > python3-yaml on most distributions) installed on your system. > Once you have these, add the folder 'git-helpers' in > 'sysadmin/repo-metadata' to $PATH and you should be good to go. > > Please note that 'git kpull' at the moment is only able to perform the > initial migration from anongit.kde.org/git.kde.org to invent.kde.org > urls. > Additional patches to improve this are welcome. > > -- Conclusion -- > > Apologies for the disruption this caused - please note that a number > of systems that work closely with the Git repositories are in the > process of catching up with the transition at the moment. > During this time there may be some disruption to them, however we hope > that this will all be completed over the coming week. > > Should anyone have any questions regarding this, please let us know > (via sysad...@kde.org) > > Thanks, > Ben Cooksley > KDE Sysadmin
This is amazing! Congrats to everyone involved! Bet, *Jacky Alcine*[1] -------- [1] https://jacky.wtf/?utm_medium=email
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