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On 8 February 2015 at 18:38, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hello, everyone. |
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> I would like to announce that our little rsync->git band-aid mirror [1] |
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> is doing fine and we're actively working towards improving Gentoo |
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> development experience. |
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> First of all, we have enabled tree-wide repoman scans using travis-ci |
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> [2]. Besides providing regularly updated repository state report, it |
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> can be used to scan Pull Requests for tree-wide damage :). Asides from |
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> the benefit to external contributors, Gentoo developers can use it to |
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> avoid having to run repoman locally. |
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> For example, if you are doing a big old version cleanup, do it in git |
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> and submit a Pull Request, and travis will figure out if you don't |
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> break any revdeps. |
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> Secondly, I have committed app-portage/lightweight-cvs-toolkit for your |
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> committing pleasure. It consists of three tools: |
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> a. lcvs-init -- that can be used to quickly create partial CVS |
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> checkout, having only pure categories checked out. The repository is |
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> set to use 'gentoo' as master, so you can easily commit into CVS |
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> while keeping the dependencies, eclasses and profiles synced to your |
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> regular rsync/git checkout (with working cache!). The idea is explained |
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> more thoroughly on the wiki [3] and in the script output. |
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> b. lcvs-merge-pr -- a convenient tool to merge github PR (or any git |
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> patch) into your CVS checkout. It 'cvs up -dP' directories |
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> as necessary, git-applies the patch omitting ChangeLogs and Manifests, |
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> calls cvs add/cvs rm as appropriate. All you have to do is update |
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> the ChangeLog and commit :). More about merging on the wiki [4]. |
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> c. lcvs-revert -- a convenient tool to revert commits. Pretty much |
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> the idea is: someone breaks something e.g. by removing ebuilds, and you |
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> want to revert that. Instead of playing all the fancy 'cvs add' magic, |
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> you just find the matching git commit and lcvs-revert it. Using logic |
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> similar to lcvs-merge-pr, it fetches the diff and reverse-applies it. |
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> Then you check if everything went fine, ChangeLog and commit :). More |
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> info on the wiki [5] as well. |
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> Thanks to all the people that helped me get this running, and have |
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> fun :). |
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> [1]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-portage-rsync-mirror |
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> [2]:https://travis-ci.org/gentoo/gentoo-portage-rsync-mirror |
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> [3]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Lightweight_CVS_Checkout |
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> [4]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Git_mirror/Merging_Pull_Requests |
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> [5]:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Git_mirror/Reverting_Gentoo_commits |
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Thank you! This looks really useful. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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