Without saying anything about how to use hg (though this is a nice tutorial: http://hginit.com/), I have no objection to moving the whole thing to git and/or github. I was the one who chose hg long ago, and I no longer work on SKS enough for my opinion on such things to matter.
y On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > hey folks-- > > i'm comfortable with git. i'm even comfortable on github, gitlab, and > other similar platforms. > > I'm not as comfortable with mercurial (hg), or with bitbucket's hg > interface, but i think i'm educable. This is a request for pointers for > simple workflow help. > > i find that every time i want to propose a simple change to the sks > project in a convenient way for upstream (e.g. as a pull request), i > spend hours beating my head against the wall. > > with git, i would do something like: > > git clone $UPSTREAM_REPO > cd $REPO_NAME > git checkout -b $FEATURE_BRANCH_NAME > $EDITOR example.source > git add example.source > git commit -m 'explanation of change' > git push origin $FEATURE_BRANCH_NAME > > Then i would go to whatever goofy webui the project uses and > clicky-clicky through to make a "merge request" or a "pull request". > > In situations where i don't have push access to the $UPSTREAM_REPO > (which is fine) i make a "fork" (i.e. my own copy) of the repo on the > upstream hosting platform, and i pull from there and push to there > instead. (the clicky-clicky bit of making a "merge request" or "pull > request" is then slightly more complicated) > > I've even tried to do this on bitbucket for sks, with: > > https://bitbucket.org/dkgdkg/sks-keyserver.old > > But it's possible that i've screwed that repo up badly enough that i > can't get it to do what i'd want to do. and i can't convince bitbucket > to let me make a new "fork" of the upstream sks-keyserver either :/ > > Is there a comparably simple tutorial someone can point me to for > contributing to sks? > > or, would sks folks be interested in moving to git for revision control? > > --dkg, frustrated at having spent too much of the day on > administrivia instead of actual contributions > > _______________________________________________ > Sks-devel mailing list > Sks-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel > >
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