I think this approach makes sense. As I understand it: * We want to be good historians and follow the proper workflow, which also implies that "master" should ideally never be broken. * While we are switching to ansible, we do the switch *in a branch* called dxs and *not master* * All fixes and porting efforts happen on the dxs branch. This implies that ALL pull requests must be created against xsce:dxs rather than xsce:master. * Once the port is done, it is merged into master. All development happens on master.
The risk we run is that the dxs branch will become the active branch being worked upon. Which is non-ideal (All development must ideally happen against master). So we have a couple of options: a. Merge the dxs branch with the current set of dxs commits into master. Follow all development there. b. Set a hard deadline for merging dxs into master. I think I like option a. better. Option b. has the advantage of ensuring a working master. Thoughts? Regardless of which path we choose, it's a good idea to keep the dxs history, and the dxs branch should be created (Steps 1. and 2. from Miguel's email) Anish On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Miguel González < migonzal...@activitycentral.com> wrote: > My suggestion to integrate "activitycetral/dxs" into "XSCE/xsce" > preserving history and using a branch for easier comparison is: > > 1. revert xsce/master to fa2d59, > 2. create a 'dxs' branch > 3. merge activitycentral/dxs commits to this new branch preserving history > > This new branch (XSCE/xsce@dxs) will be the canonical repository for the > migration and everybody will pull request against this branch. > > > Detailed procedure on a fresh repository > ---- > > 1. revert > > Clean repo: > ``` > git clone g...@github.com:XSCE/xsce.git > cd xsce > ``` > > The actual revert: > ``` > git revert -m 1 b1638cd --no-edit > ``` > > Submit changes: > ``` > git push origin > ``` > > 2. create branch > > ``` > git branch dxs > git checkout dxs > git push origin dxs > ``` > > 3. merge > > Fetch dxs repository: > ``` > git remote add dxs g...@github.com:activitycentral/dxs > git fetch dxs > ``` > > And now the critical part, the actual merge: > ``` > git merge --no-ff -s recursive -X ours --no-edit dxs/master > ``` > > Push! > ``` > git push origin dxs > ```` > > So, anyone with write permission on xsce can do this. > > You can check how would be the resulting repo in my personal clone copy in > https://github.com/migonzalvar/xsce. > > > > -- > Miguel González > Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com >
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