Moving to another SCM

Moving to another SCM

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

I'd like to ask if GRUB is planning to move to another SCM?

I've been using GIT for a while and it looks great for the kinda of
work done at GRUB since there're a lot of people working together and
sometimes a feature need some time to get mature enough to be merged
in and this fits very well how GIT is used.

There's any plans for it? What's the options that current developers
have in mind?

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Re: Moving to another SCM

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:38:47PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to ask if GRUB is planning to move to another SCM?
> 
> I've been using GIT for a while and it looks great for the kinda of
> work done at GRUB since there're a lot of people working together and
> sometimes a feature need some time to get mature enough to be merged
> in and this fits very well how GIT is used.
> 
> There's any plans for it? What's the options that current developers
> have in mind?

I'm not very familiar with GIT, although my understanding is that it has
advantages related to branching and also a nice regression test feature.

Also, for distributors for Debian, it seems to be useful since the Debian
package can be considered a branch from official GRUB in the SCM itself.

Anyway, I find CVS very awkward to work with.  I tend to agree with Otavio
that a change would be a good thing (be it to git, svn...).

Just my 0.02.

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Re: Moving to another SCM

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Tue, 22 May 2007 20:52:58 +0200,
Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:38:47PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'd like to ask if GRUB is planning to move to another SCM?
> > 
> > I've been using GIT for a while and it looks great for the kinda of
> > work done at GRUB since there're a lot of people working together and
> > sometimes a feature need some time to get mature enough to be merged
> > in and this fits very well how GIT is used.
> > 
> > There's any plans for it? What's the options that current developers
> > have in mind?
> 
> I'm not very familiar with GIT, although my understanding is that it has
> advantages related to branching and also a nice regression test feature.
> 
> Also, for distributors for Debian, it seems to be useful since the Debian
> package can be considered a branch from official GRUB in the SCM itself.
> 
> Anyway, I find CVS very awkward to work with.  I tend to agree with Otavio
> that a change would be a good thing (be it to git, svn...).

You get used to it over the years. :-) But we should switch to
something else yes.

The savannah admins are working on supporting svn and git:
https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/WhenSvN and
https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git

It will depend on when savannah starts offering it when we can switch.

Jeroen Dekkers

Re: Moving to another SCM

[Thomas Schwinge]

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Hello!

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:58:44PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git
> 
> It will depend on when savannah starts offering it when we can switch.

Support for git is already up and running:
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/>.  I know from the GNU coreutils and
gnulib people that they've already been using it successfully for a few
months.  (``Successfully'' here means that they didn't regret to have
switched to git.)


Regards,
 Thomas

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Re: Moving to another SCM

[Marco Gerards]

Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> writes:

Hi,

> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:58:44PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git
>> 
>> It will depend on when savannah starts offering it when we can switch.
>
> Support for git is already up and running:
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/>.  I know from the GNU coreutils and
> gnulib people that they've already been using it successfully for a few
> months.  (``Successfully'' here means that they didn't regret to have
> switched to git.)

This sounds interesting.  Personally I have no objections to a switch.
Will the history be preserved, do we still have a commits mailinglist,
is git easy to learn and how do other developers (especially Okuji)
think about this?

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Re: Moving to another SCM

[Sam Morris]

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> >> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git
> >> 
> >> It will depend on when savannah starts offering it when we can switch.
> >
> > Support for git is already up and running:
> > <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/>.  I know from the GNU coreutils and
> > gnulib people that they've already been using it successfully for a few
> > months.  (``Successfully'' here means that they didn't regret to have
> > switched to git.)
> 
> This sounds interesting.  Personally I have no objections to a switch.
> Will the history be preserved, do we still have a commits mailinglist,
> is git easy to learn and how do other developers (especially Okuji)
> think about this?

I have been using the following script to maintain a mirror of Grub's
CVS repository. The first time it's run it creates a git repository in
'upstream'; subsequent runs will import any new commits since the last
run.

        #!/bin/sh
        
        set -e
        
        export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/grub

        git-cvsimport -k -v -i -C upstream grub2

The full history, including branches, is imported. The 'upstream'
directory ends up being 6.3 MiB, which includes a checkout of the
'origin' branch.

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