[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Jeff Cody]

This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).

In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
---
 roms/openbios | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/roms/openbios b/roms/openbios
index 422b916..36785d7 160000
--- a/roms/openbios
+++ b/roms/openbios
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 422b916649aa0db8c5edadccb22387b3e807e3b2
+Subproject commit 36785d7b59726beca320a0b99cfa0a903782c6f3
-- 
1.9.3

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Jeff Cody]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
> 
> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> ---
>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/roms/openbios b/roms/openbios
> index 422b916..36785d7 160000
> --- a/roms/openbios
> +++ b/roms/openbios
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -Subproject commit 422b916649aa0db8c5edadccb22387b3e807e3b2
> +Subproject commit 36785d7b59726beca320a0b99cfa0a903782c6f3
> -- 
> 1.9.3
> 

I marked this as RFC, because I did not want to this to get merged without
making sure that this is the correct approach.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
> 
> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> ---
>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
>>
>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
default master branch will point to the same HEAD.


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
>>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
>>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
>>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
>>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
>>>
>>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
>>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
>> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> 
> Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
> which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
> git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
> git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
> default master branch will point to the same HEAD.

Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.

As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
patches to the new github master later this evening.


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Jeff Cody]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
> > On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> >>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
> >>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
> >>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
> >>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
> >>>
> >>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
> >>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
> >> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
> > which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
> > git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
> > git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
> > default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
> 
> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
> 
> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
> patches to the new github master later this evening.
>

If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios git repo
hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we might be able
to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am thinking of:


A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
    git fetch github
    git merge --no-edit github/master
    git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master


B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
    git svn fetch svn
    git merge git-svn
    git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master


C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is what is being run:
    git svn fetch svn
    git merge git-svn
    git fetch github
    git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
    git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
(This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)

If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto-generated merge
message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?

Jeff

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>
>> > On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
>> >>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
>> >>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
>> >>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
>> >>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
>> >>>
>> >>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
>> >>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
>> >>>
>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
>> >>> ---
>> >>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
>> >> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
>> >>
>> >> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>> >
>> > Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
>> > which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
>> > git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
>> > git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
>> > default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
>>
>> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
>> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
>>
>> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
>> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
>> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
>> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
>> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
>> patches to the new github master later this evening.
>>
>
> If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios git repo
> hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we might be able
> to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am thinking of:
>
>
> A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
>     git fetch github
>     git merge --no-edit github/master


>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>
>
> B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
>     git svn fetch svn
>     git merge git-svn
>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>
>
> C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is what is being run:
>     git svn fetch svn
>     git merge git-svn
>     git fetch github
>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
> (This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)
>
> If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto-generated merge
> message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?

No, I think A is not appropriate because the mirror must have the
exact same commit IDs as github.  Only fast-forward merges are
allowed, so I would use --ff-only instead.  The first time you begin
using the github repo you'll need git reset --hard github/master to
move from the old svn commit history to the new github history.

It's important to keep the svm commits so old versions of QEMU still
work.  You can ensure that the garbage collector does not delete the
commits by tagging the latest svn head.

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 28/06/16 14:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
>>>>>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
>>>>>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
>>>>>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
>>>>>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
>>>>>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
>>>>> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
>>>>>
>>>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
>>>> which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
>>>> git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
>>>> git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
>>>> default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
>>>
>>> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
>>> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
>>>
>>> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
>>> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
>>> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
>>> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
>>> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
>>> patches to the new github master later this evening.
>>>
>>
>> If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios git repo
>> hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we might be able
>> to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am thinking of:
>>
>>
>> A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
>>     git fetch github
>>     git merge --no-edit github/master
> 
> 
>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>
>>
>> B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
>>     git svn fetch svn
>>     git merge git-svn
>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>
>>
>> C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is what is being run:
>>     git svn fetch svn
>>     git merge git-svn
>>     git fetch github
>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
>> (This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)
>>
>> If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto-generated merge
>> message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?
> 
> No, I think A is not appropriate because the mirror must have the
> exact same commit IDs as github.  Only fast-forward merges are
> allowed, so I would use --ff-only instead.  The first time you begin
> using the github repo you'll need git reset --hard github/master to
> move from the old svn commit history to the new github history.
> 
> It's important to keep the svm commits so old versions of QEMU still
> work.  You can ensure that the garbage collector does not delete the
> commits by tagging the latest svn head.

Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking. Given that the repository is
already merged, is it not just as simple as:

git checkout master -b legacy
git checkout master
git reset --hard 36785d7

And then change the nightly script to "git pull origin/master" with the
origin remote set to the github.com repository. I'm also fine with
asking existing developers to switch over to the new master once we're done.


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 28/06/16 21:43, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> On 28/06/16 14:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
>>>>>>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
>>>>>>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
>>>>>>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
>>>>>>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
>>>>>>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
>>>>>> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
>>>>> which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
>>>>> git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
>>>>> git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
>>>>> default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
>>>>
>>>> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
>>>> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
>>>>
>>>> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
>>>> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
>>>> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
>>>> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
>>>> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
>>>> patches to the new github master later this evening.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios git repo
>>> hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we might be able
>>> to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am thinking of:
>>>
>>>
>>> A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
>>>     git fetch github
>>>     git merge --no-edit github/master
>>
>>
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>
>>>
>>> B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
>>>     git svn fetch svn
>>>     git merge git-svn
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>
>>>
>>> C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is what is being run:
>>>     git svn fetch svn
>>>     git merge git-svn
>>>     git fetch github
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
>>> (This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)
>>>
>>> If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto-generated merge
>>> message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?
>>
>> No, I think A is not appropriate because the mirror must have the
>> exact same commit IDs as github.  Only fast-forward merges are
>> allowed, so I would use --ff-only instead.  The first time you begin
>> using the github repo you'll need git reset --hard github/master to
>> move from the old svn commit history to the new github history.
>>
>> It's important to keep the svm commits so old versions of QEMU still
>> work.  You can ensure that the garbage collector does not delete the
>> commits by tagging the latest svn head.
> 
> Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking. Given that the repository is
> already merged, is it not just as simple as:
> 
> git checkout master -b legacy
> git checkout master
> git reset --hard 36785d7
> 
> And then change the nightly script to "git pull origin/master" with the
> origin remote set to the github.com repository. I'm also fine with
> asking existing developers to switch over to the new master once we're done.

Urgent ping again?!


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Jeff Cody]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 08:26:57AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 28/06/16 21:43, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
> > On 28/06/16 14:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >>>> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> >>>>>>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
> >>>>>>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
> >>>>>>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
> >>>>>>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
> >>>>>>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> >>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
> >>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
> >>>>>> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
> >>>>> which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
> >>>>> git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
> >>>>> git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
> >>>>> default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
> >>>>
> >>>> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
> >>>> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
> >>>>
> >>>> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
> >>>> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
> >>>> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
> >>>> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
> >>>> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
> >>>> patches to the new github master later this evening.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios git repo
> >>> hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we might be able
> >>> to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am thinking of:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
> >>>     git fetch github
> >>>     git merge --no-edit github/master
> >>
> >>
> >>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
> >>>     git svn fetch svn
> >>>     git merge git-svn
> >>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is what is being run:
> >>>     git svn fetch svn
> >>>     git merge git-svn
> >>>     git fetch github
> >>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
> >>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
> >>> (This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)
> >>>
> >>> If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto-generated merge
> >>> message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?
> >>
> >> No, I think A is not appropriate because the mirror must have the
> >> exact same commit IDs as github.  Only fast-forward merges are
> >> allowed, so I would use --ff-only instead.  The first time you begin
> >> using the github repo you'll need git reset --hard github/master to
> >> move from the old svn commit history to the new github history.
> >>
> >> It's important to keep the svm commits so old versions of QEMU still
> >> work.  You can ensure that the garbage collector does not delete the
> >> commits by tagging the latest svn head.
> > 
> > Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking. Given that the repository is
> > already merged, is it not just as simple as:
> > 
> > git checkout master -b legacy
> > git checkout master
> > git reset --hard 36785d7
> > 
> > And then change the nightly script to "git pull origin/master" with the
> > origin remote set to the github.com repository. I'm also fine with
> > asking existing developers to switch over to the new master once we're done.
> 
> Urgent ping again?!
>

Is there anything that is actually holding your work up?  The server has all
the github hashes in it - the only thing that needs to happen is a checkout
from 'origin/official' in the submodule to use them.  Not to say figuring
out the best way to get those hashes on 'master' in the submodule can't
happen, but since the hashes obviously will be the same I don't think
anything should actually hold you up.  Or am I missing something?

Thanks, Jeff

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 06/07/16 14:29, Jeff Cody wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 08:26:57AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> On 28/06/16 21:43, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>
>>> On 28/06/16 14:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>>>> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
>>>>>>>>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
>>>>>>>>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
>>>>>>>>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
>>>>>>>>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
>>>>>>>>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>>>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
>>>>>>>> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
>>>>>>> which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
>>>>>>> git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
>>>>>>> git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
>>>>>>> default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
>>>>>> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
>>>>>> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
>>>>>> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
>>>>>> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
>>>>>> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
>>>>>> patches to the new github master later this evening.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios git repo
>>>>> hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we might be able
>>>>> to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am thinking of:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
>>>>>     git fetch github
>>>>>     git merge --no-edit github/master
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
>>>>>     git svn fetch svn
>>>>>     git merge git-svn
>>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is what is being run:
>>>>>     git svn fetch svn
>>>>>     git merge git-svn
>>>>>     git fetch github
>>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
>>>>> (This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)
>>>>>
>>>>> If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto-generated merge
>>>>> message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> No, I think A is not appropriate because the mirror must have the
>>>> exact same commit IDs as github.  Only fast-forward merges are
>>>> allowed, so I would use --ff-only instead.  The first time you begin
>>>> using the github repo you'll need git reset --hard github/master to
>>>> move from the old svn commit history to the new github history.
>>>>
>>>> It's important to keep the svm commits so old versions of QEMU still
>>>> work.  You can ensure that the garbage collector does not delete the
>>>> commits by tagging the latest svn head.
>>>
>>> Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking. Given that the repository is
>>> already merged, is it not just as simple as:
>>>
>>> git checkout master -b legacy
>>> git checkout master
>>> git reset --hard 36785d7
>>>
>>> And then change the nightly script to "git pull origin/master" with the
>>> origin remote set to the github.com repository. I'm also fine with
>>> asking existing developers to switch over to the new master once we're done.
>>
>> Urgent ping again?!
>>
> 
> Is there anything that is actually holding your work up?  The server has all
> the github hashes in it - the only thing that needs to happen is a checkout
> from 'origin/official' in the submodule to use them.  Not to say figuring
> out the best way to get those hashes on 'master' in the submodule can't
> happen, but since the hashes obviously will be the same I don't think
> anything should actually hold you up.  Or am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks, Jeff

Hi Jeff,

My understanding from earlier in the thread was that people wanted a
single commit to move the OpenBIOS submodule over to use the new
official HEAD but at the same time I was positing to also switch master
so that the two repositories match each other moving forward.

The two main reasons being that i) everyone's favourite habit is to run
"git checkout master && git pull" when trying to update a remote
repository and so with the current setup I can see people
building/testing off the wrong branch and ii) the repository at
git.qemu-project.org has been recommended as the "official" git
repository for a while and has more users than SVN.

Therefore if there is going to be a changeover period, we might as well
do it in one go: I can email the OpenBIOS list and ask users to switch
to the new repository, everyone manually rebases and then there is no
confusion between repositories moving forward. Yes I agree that we could
just switch the master HEAD in its current incarnation and carry on, but
it is one of those things that the longer it gets left, the more likely
there is to be confusion between repositories in the long-term vs.
simply going ahead and getting it all out of the way.


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Jeff Cody]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 04:19:24PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 06/07/16 14:29, Jeff Cody wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 08:26:57AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >> On 28/06/16 21:43, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 28/06/16 14:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >>>>>> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless switching
> >>>>>>>>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling from the
> >>>>>>>>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should still be
> >>>>>>>>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical commits).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official" is the
> >>>>>>>>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> >>>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
> >>>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/config
> >>>>>>>> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy branch
> >>>>>>> which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new, upstream
> >>>>>>> git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
> >>>>>>> git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then the
> >>>>>>> default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft freeze
> >>>>>> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so that
> >>>>>> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are exactly
> >>>>>> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible to do
> >>>>>> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please can we
> >>>>>> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the outstanding
> >>>>>> patches to the new github master later this evening.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios git repo
> >>>>> hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we might be able
> >>>>> to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am thinking of:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
> >>>>>     git fetch github
> >>>>>     git merge --no-edit github/master
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
> >>>>>     git svn fetch svn
> >>>>>     git merge git-svn
> >>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is what is being run:
> >>>>>     git svn fetch svn
> >>>>>     git merge git-svn
> >>>>>     git fetch github
> >>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
> >>>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
> >>>>> (This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto-generated merge
> >>>>> message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?
> >>>>
> >>>> No, I think A is not appropriate because the mirror must have the
> >>>> exact same commit IDs as github.  Only fast-forward merges are
> >>>> allowed, so I would use --ff-only instead.  The first time you begin
> >>>> using the github repo you'll need git reset --hard github/master to
> >>>> move from the old svn commit history to the new github history.
> >>>>
> >>>> It's important to keep the svm commits so old versions of QEMU still
> >>>> work.  You can ensure that the garbage collector does not delete the
> >>>> commits by tagging the latest svn head.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking. Given that the repository is
> >>> already merged, is it not just as simple as:
> >>>
> >>> git checkout master -b legacy
> >>> git checkout master
> >>> git reset --hard 36785d7
> >>>
> >>> And then change the nightly script to "git pull origin/master" with the
> >>> origin remote set to the github.com repository. I'm also fine with
> >>> asking existing developers to switch over to the new master once we're done.
> >>
> >> Urgent ping again?!
> >>
> > 
> > Is there anything that is actually holding your work up?  The server has all
> > the github hashes in it - the only thing that needs to happen is a checkout
> > from 'origin/official' in the submodule to use them.  Not to say figuring
> > out the best way to get those hashes on 'master' in the submodule can't
> > happen, but since the hashes obviously will be the same I don't think
> > anything should actually hold you up.  Or am I missing something?
> > 
> > Thanks, Jeff
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> My understanding from earlier in the thread was that people wanted a
> single commit to move the OpenBIOS submodule over to use the new
> official HEAD but at the same time I was positing to also switch master
> so that the two repositories match each other moving forward.
> 
> The two main reasons being that i) everyone's favourite habit is to run
> "git checkout master && git pull" when trying to update a remote
> repository and so with the current setup I can see people
> building/testing off the wrong branch and ii) the repository at
> git.qemu-project.org has been recommended as the "official" git
> repository for a while and has more users than SVN.
> 
> Therefore if there is going to be a changeover period, we might as well
> do it in one go: I can email the OpenBIOS list and ask users to switch
> to the new repository, everyone manually rebases and then there is no
> confusion between repositories moving forward. Yes I agree that we could
> just switch the master HEAD in its current incarnation and carry on, but
> it is one of those things that the longer it gets left, the more likely
> there is to be confusion between repositories in the long-term vs.
> simply going ahead and getting it all out of the way.
> 
>

Alright, here is what I think will work to switch over relatively
painlessly, and move master over to the github hashes for the submodule.  

I haven't done it yet on the server, because I want to get another set of
eyes double checking it (Stefan, Mark).  However, I have mocked it up and
tested it locally, so I think it should work fine, unless there are
scenarios I missed.  Here are the step-by-step details:


Server side actions
=====================

1) In bare openbios.git repo (git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git):

    git tag svn-last-official 422b916
    git branch svn-head 422b916
    git branch -f master 36785d7

2) openbios update repo (updated daily via cron):

    # update script contents
    # continue fetch svn commits for now as well
    # 'official' branch tracks github/master
    git svn fetch svn 
    git merge git-svn
    git fetch github   # official openbios github repo
    git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:svn-head
    git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:master  


Non-server side actions
======================

* QEMU new patch to switch over

    # normal submodule stuff:

    git submodule init
    git submodule update roms/openbios

    # create patch to switch over:
    cd roms/openbios
    git checkout master
    cd ../
    git commit -a  # assuming you made no other changes


* Existing users of git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git as a standalone work
  repo:

    git fetch

    # if there are local commits / work they want to keep
    git rebase origin/master
   
    # alternatively:
    git reset --hard origin/master                         



The above all seems to work in my testing.  Stefan, Mark: do you see any
glaring issues with the above?


-Jeff

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 07/07/16 04:12, Jeff Cody wrote:

> Alright, here is what I think will work to switch over relatively
> painlessly, and move master over to the github hashes for the submodule.  
> 
> I haven't done it yet on the server, because I want to get another set of
> eyes double checking it (Stefan, Mark).  However, I have mocked it up and
> tested it locally, so I think it should work fine, unless there are
> scenarios I missed.  Here are the step-by-step details:
> 
> 
> Server side actions
> =====================
> 
> 1) In bare openbios.git repo (git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git):
> 
>     git tag svn-last-official 422b916
>     git branch svn-head 422b916
>     git branch -f master 36785d7
> 
> 2) openbios update repo (updated daily via cron):
> 
>     # update script contents
>     # continue fetch svn commits for now as well
>     # 'official' branch tracks github/master
>     git svn fetch svn 
>     git merge git-svn
>     git fetch github   # official openbios github repo
>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:svn-head
>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:master  
> 
> 
> Non-server side actions
> ======================
> 
> * QEMU new patch to switch over
> 
>     # normal submodule stuff:
> 
>     git submodule init
>     git submodule update roms/openbios
> 
>     # create patch to switch over:
>     cd roms/openbios
>     git checkout master
>     cd ../
>     git commit -a  # assuming you made no other changes
> 
> 
> * Existing users of git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git as a standalone work
>   repo:
> 
>     git fetch
> 
>     # if there are local commits / work they want to keep
>     git rebase origin/master
>    
>     # alternatively:
>     git reset --hard origin/master                         
> 
> 
> 
> The above all seems to work in my testing.  Stefan, Mark: do you see any
> glaring issues with the above?

Hi Jeff,

I've just worked through this locally and it looks pretty good - I've
documented a few minor alterations below where I've made them:


# Get qemu-project.org repository, fetch remote master
git clone --bare git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git
cd openbios.git
git remote add -f openbios-github https://github.com/openbios/openbios.git

# Switch master to github
git tag svn-last-official 422b916
git branch svn-head 422b916
git branch -f master 36785d7

# official branch is no longer needed
git branch -D official


I see that there are still references to SVN in the nightly update, and
since the SVN repository will disappear as soon as the new git
repository is up and running and master now tracks master, I figured
this could be simplified right down to this:


# Nightly update
git fetch openbios-github
git push /pub/git/openbios.git master


For the submodule switchover, the use of "git submodule init" seemed a
bit strange - I would have thought we'd be just fine starting with the
"git submodule update" line? Also I have a script for the remainder of
the switchover process that I use when updating the OpenBIOS roms, so as
soon as openbios.git is updated, I can send a pull request to switch the
submodule hash really easily.

Finally for people who have work in branches from the old checkout, I'm
happy to suggest that they just do "git fetch" followed by "git rebase
origin/master" on any local branches of interest.


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Jeff Cody]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:22:37PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 07/07/16 04:12, Jeff Cody wrote:
> 
> > Alright, here is what I think will work to switch over relatively
> > painlessly, and move master over to the github hashes for the submodule.  
> > 
> > I haven't done it yet on the server, because I want to get another set of
> > eyes double checking it (Stefan, Mark).  However, I have mocked it up and
> > tested it locally, so I think it should work fine, unless there are
> > scenarios I missed.  Here are the step-by-step details:
> > 
> > 
> > Server side actions
> > =====================
> > 
> > 1) In bare openbios.git repo (git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git):
> > 
> >     git tag svn-last-official 422b916
> >     git branch svn-head 422b916
> >     git branch -f master 36785d7
> > 
> > 2) openbios update repo (updated daily via cron):
> > 
> >     # update script contents
> >     # continue fetch svn commits for now as well
> >     # 'official' branch tracks github/master
> >     git svn fetch svn 
> >     git merge git-svn
> >     git fetch github   # official openbios github repo
> >     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:svn-head
> >     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:master  
> > 
> > 
> > Non-server side actions
> > ======================
> > 
> > * QEMU new patch to switch over
> > 
> >     # normal submodule stuff:
> > 
> >     git submodule init
> >     git submodule update roms/openbios
> > 
> >     # create patch to switch over:
> >     cd roms/openbios
> >     git checkout master
> >     cd ../
> >     git commit -a  # assuming you made no other changes
> > 
> > 
> > * Existing users of git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git as a standalone work
> >   repo:
> > 
> >     git fetch
> > 
> >     # if there are local commits / work they want to keep
> >     git rebase origin/master
> >    
> >     # alternatively:
> >     git reset --hard origin/master                         
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The above all seems to work in my testing.  Stefan, Mark: do you see any
> > glaring issues with the above?
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I've just worked through this locally and it looks pretty good - I've
> documented a few minor alterations below where I've made them:
> 

Great, thanks.

> 
> # Get qemu-project.org repository, fetch remote master
> git clone --bare git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git
> cd openbios.git
> git remote add -f openbios-github https://github.com/openbios/openbios.git
> 
> # Switch master to github
> git tag svn-last-official 422b916
> git branch svn-head 422b916
> git branch -f master 36785d7
> 
> # official branch is no longer needed
> git branch -D official
> 

Yep, we should be able to get rid of the 'official' branch, as it won't be
needed going forward.

> 
> I see that there are still references to SVN in the nightly update, and
> since the SVN repository will disappear as soon as the new git
> repository is up and running and master now tracks master, I figured
> this could be simplified right down to this:
> 
> 
> # Nightly update
> git fetch openbios-github
> git push /pub/git/openbios.git master

I wasn't sure if there was going to be an overlap period - if the SVN server
is going offline, however, then I will go ahead and get rid of the svn
fetch, merge, and push actions.

> 
> 
> For the submodule switchover, the use of "git submodule init" seemed a
> bit strange - I would have thought we'd be just fine starting with the
> "git submodule update" line? Also I have a script for the remainder of
> the switchover process that I use when updating the OpenBIOS roms, so as
> soon as openbios.git is updated, I can send a pull request to switch the
> submodule hash really easily.
> 
> Finally for people who have work in branches from the old checkout, I'm
> happy to suggest that they just do "git fetch" followed by "git rebase
> origin/master" on any local branches of interest.
> 
>

Thanks!
Jeff

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Jeff Cody]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 04:53:44PM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 06:22:37PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > On 07/07/16 04:12, Jeff Cody wrote:
> > 
> > > Alright, here is what I think will work to switch over relatively
> > > painlessly, and move master over to the github hashes for the submodule.  
> > > 
> > > I haven't done it yet on the server, because I want to get another set of
> > > eyes double checking it (Stefan, Mark).  However, I have mocked it up and
> > > tested it locally, so I think it should work fine, unless there are
> > > scenarios I missed.  Here are the step-by-step details:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Server side actions
> > > =====================
> > > 
> > > 1) In bare openbios.git repo (git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git):
> > > 
> > >     git tag svn-last-official 422b916
> > >     git branch svn-head 422b916
> > >     git branch -f master 36785d7
> > > 
> > > 2) openbios update repo (updated daily via cron):
> > > 
> > >     # update script contents
> > >     # continue fetch svn commits for now as well
> > >     # 'official' branch tracks github/master
> > >     git svn fetch svn 
> > >     git merge git-svn
> > >     git fetch github   # official openbios github repo
> > >     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:svn-head
> > >     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:master  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Non-server side actions
> > > ======================
> > > 
> > > * QEMU new patch to switch over
> > > 
> > >     # normal submodule stuff:
> > > 
> > >     git submodule init
> > >     git submodule update roms/openbios
> > > 
> > >     # create patch to switch over:
> > >     cd roms/openbios
> > >     git checkout master
> > >     cd ../
> > >     git commit -a  # assuming you made no other changes
> > > 
> > > 
> > > * Existing users of git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git as a standalone work
> > >   repo:
> > > 
> > >     git fetch
> > > 
> > >     # if there are local commits / work they want to keep
> > >     git rebase origin/master
> > >    
> > >     # alternatively:
> > >     git reset --hard origin/master                         
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The above all seems to work in my testing.  Stefan, Mark: do you see any
> > > glaring issues with the above?
> > 
> > Hi Jeff,
> > 
> > I've just worked through this locally and it looks pretty good - I've
> > documented a few minor alterations below where I've made them:
> > 
> 
> Great, thanks.
> 
> > 
> > # Get qemu-project.org repository, fetch remote master
> > git clone --bare git://git.qemu.org/openbios.git
> > cd openbios.git
> > git remote add -f openbios-github https://github.com/openbios/openbios.git
> > 
> > # Switch master to github
> > git tag svn-last-official 422b916
> > git branch svn-head 422b916
> > git branch -f master 36785d7
> > 
> > # official branch is no longer needed
> > git branch -D official
> > 
> 
> Yep, we should be able to get rid of the 'official' branch, as it won't be
> needed going forward.
> 
> > 
> > I see that there are still references to SVN in the nightly update, and
> > since the SVN repository will disappear as soon as the new git
> > repository is up and running and master now tracks master, I figured
> > this could be simplified right down to this:
> > 
> > 
> > # Nightly update
> > git fetch openbios-github
> > git push /pub/git/openbios.git master
> 
> I wasn't sure if there was going to be an overlap period - if the SVN server
> is going offline, however, then I will go ahead and get rid of the svn
> fetch, merge, and push actions.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > For the submodule switchover, the use of "git submodule init" seemed a
> > bit strange - I would have thought we'd be just fine starting with the
> > "git submodule update" line? Also I have a script for the remainder of
> > the switchover process that I use when updating the OpenBIOS roms, so as
> > soon as openbios.git is updated, I can send a pull request to switch the
> > submodule hash really easily.
> > 
> > Finally for people who have work in branches from the old checkout, I'm
> > happy to suggest that they just do "git fetch" followed by "git rebase
> > origin/master" on any local branches of interest.
> > 
> >


OK, it is all completed on the server side, and I submitted a patch for the
new hash.  If anything looks amiss, just let me know.

Thanks,
Jeff

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 07/07/16 22:25, Jeff Cody wrote:

> OK, it is all completed on the server side, and I submitted a patch for the
> new hash.  If anything looks amiss, just let me know.

The server-side part looks absolutely great - thank you so much! I'll
work through my outstanding OpenBIOS patches so if you keep an eye on
the repository sync tonight you should see some changes come through.


ATB,

Mark.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/1] OpenBIOS: Switch over to official OpenBIOS git repo

[G 3]

On Jun 28, 2016, at 7:44 PM, qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org wrote:

> On 28/06/16 14:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 07:48:23AM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>> On 21/06/16 14:48, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 21/06/16 11:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:40:42AM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
>>>>>>> This update should preserve git history, and allow seamless  
>>>>>>> switching
>>>>>>> over to the official openbios git repo, rather than pulling  
>>>>>>> from the
>>>>>>> svn mirror.  All prior history from the svn repository should  
>>>>>>> still be
>>>>>>> preserved (i.e., commit hashes are the same for historical  
>>>>>>> commits).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the roms/openbios submodule, the branch "origin/official"  
>>>>>>> is the
>>>>>>> latest mirror of the official git repository (fetched daily).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  roms/openbios | 2 +-
>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Assuming the git.qemu-project.org openbios.git remote and .git/ 
>>>>>> config
>>>>>> mirror setting has been updated to use the new upstream git repo:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to switch this around, so that there is a legacy  
>>>>> branch
>>>>> which points to the current HEAD and master points to the new,  
>>>>> upstream
>>>>> git HEAD? Then it means if someone clones either the
>>>>> git.qemu-project.org repository or the official repository then  
>>>>> the
>>>>> default master branch will point to the same HEAD.
>>>>
>>>> Urgent ping? It has been another week, we're coming up to soft  
>>>> freeze
>>>> and the PPC guys are urgently after an OpenBIOS fix.
>>>>
>>>> As per the above I'd really like the branches switched around so  
>>>> that
>>>> both the git.qemu-project.org master and github.com master are  
>>>> exactly
>>>> the same HEAD although I believe it may be technically possible  
>>>> to do
>>>> this part separately once the HEAD switch is in? If so, please  
>>>> can we
>>>> apply this and then I can line up and attempt to push the  
>>>> outstanding
>>>> patches to the new github master later this evening.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If we want something other than this patch, so that the openbios  
>>> git repo
>>> hosted on qemu.org has 'master' as the new github tracking, we  
>>> might be able
>>> to do that with a git-merge.  Here are the three methods I am  
>>> thinking of:
>>>
>>>
>>> A) For 'master' referencing new github hashes:
>>>     git fetch github
>>>     git merge --no-edit github/master
>>
>>
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>
>>>
>>> B) Old, prior behavior for SVN:
>>>     git svn fetch svn
>>>     git merge git-svn
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>
>>>
>>> C) Current behavior, as of the submitted patch above, this is  
>>> what is being run:
>>>     git svn fetch svn
>>>     git merge git-svn
>>>     git fetch github
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git master:master
>>>     git push /pub/git/openbios.git official:official
>>> (This seemed safest to run, as old behavior remains unchanged)
>>>
>>> If we do A), we'll have merge commits with just the auto- 
>>> generated merge
>>> message, and I'm not sure this is what you want.  Thoughts?
>>
>> No, I think A is not appropriate because the mirror must have the
>> exact same commit IDs as github.  Only fast-forward merges are
>> allowed, so I would use --ff-only instead.  The first time you begin
>> using the github repo you'll need git reset --hard github/master to
>> move from the old svn commit history to the new github history.
>>
>> It's important to keep the svm commits so old versions of QEMU still
>> work.  You can ensure that the garbage collector does not delete the
>> commits by tagging the latest svn head.
>
> Yes, this is exactly what I'm thinking. Given that the repository is
> already merged, is it not just as simple as:
>
> git checkout master -b legacy
> git checkout master
> git reset --hard 36785d7
>
> And then change the nightly script to "git pull origin/master" with  
> the
> origin remote set to the github.com repository. I'm also fine with
> asking existing developers to switch over to the new master once  
> we're done.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.

Now that OpenBIOS will be using git, would you be willing to accept a  
patch that prints the git commit used to make the openbios binary  
into the banner word? If not in the banner word, maybe into another  
word like openbios_version?