On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:49:23PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Yes, but as I've mentioned before, there is a git-specific way of doing > this, without the need of a hand-made script.
I was referring to git submodules [1]. However, after a bit of
investigation [2] it seems they are not a handy way of handling multiple
package repository on git.d.o. I've also asked the X.org guys on how
they handle their repositories and it turned out that:
- you just ask for a group-writable directory on alioth (our will be
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint
- you don't use it as a git repository, but rather put there a tree with
several git repositories, ours can be something like:
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/ # <-- not a git repository
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/bibtex2html.git/
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/cairo-ocaml.git/
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/calendar.git/
...
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/projects/ # <-- not a git repository
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/projects/approx.git/
/git/pkg-ocaml-maint/projects/debmirror.git/
...
... and so on ...
- to create a new git repository for a new package you do something
like:
$ ssh alioth.debian.org GIT_DIR=/git/foo/bar.git git --bare init
--shared=world
- to manage with just one command the update of several cloned git
repositories the best practice is to use mr [3]. (BTW I think it would
be a wonderful idea to rewrite Sylvain's script about /layout/ to use
mr, as mr is $VCS-agnostic; but of course it is pointless now if we
are going to move to git as it seems)
- it only remains open the point about how to checkout at once all
package repositories (which probably only myself is interested in
doing, but anyhoe :-)) The solution is mr + ssh alioth.d.o printing
out all the relevant directories
Yes, it is a bit more cumbersome than the current situation, but nothing
spectacularly hard with a couple of scripts well-documented on our web
page. Also it is working perfectly fine for other I don't see why it
shouldn't for us.
Cheers.
[1]
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.5.4.3/user-manual.html#submodules
[2]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/vcs-pkg-discuss/2008-March/000174.html
[3] http://packages.debian.org/sid/mr
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