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Thursday 23 September 2010 5:56:06 am - 6 replies
Hot on the heels of the previous meeting, here is what happened on second meeting of September. Read on !
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Gaetano Giunta
Thursday 23 September 2010 7:39:26 am
"Using the native github capabilitry of svn mirroring for pubsvn": I tried, but so far there was little use for it.
In short:
. ppl can already connect to github using svn without passing by pubsvn
. the "svn access" capability of github is limited, not all svn commands work as they should
. which makes it a hassle to do an svn sync of github to pubsvnfor later exposing that svn repo in ro mode as it was done before (mirroring the ezp svn repo): there would be no complete history / blame support, etc...
. there are other tools that mirror a git repo into an svn one, but I did not consider spending time on testing them - after all we want all devs to use git in the first place, right? ;-) Also an "exact" replica might not even be doable because of differences in the underlying systems...
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Nicolas Pastorino
Sunday 26 September 2010 1:31:16 am
Hi Gaetano,
Do you know which SVN commands are not working with this setup ? If these are rarely used ones, we may want to use github's native functionality for this, this will dramatically reduce the amount of setup & maintenance work.
Cheers,
-- Nicolas Pastorino Director Community - eZ Member of the Community Project Board eZ Publish Community on twitter: http://twitter.com/ezcommunity t : http://twitter.com/jeanvoye G+ : http://plus.tl/jeanvoye
Sunday 26 September 2010 3:04:21 am
@nico: I do not have the exact list of commands that do not work - I just tried using tortoisesvn to browse the svn 'native' version of github and it was simply not good enough for real work.
I agree that pointing end users to github's native svn interface will save time and money.
I do not see a lot of added value in setting up an svn mirror. Is it just for the sake of having the old svn urls working again? Any svn die-hard can use github's version.
Otoh real added value can be found in setting up multiple code browsing and cross-referencing tools: every dev probably has his favorite one, and some might be better than others at parsing php. An interesting new entry on the list of candidates: opengrok - http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+opengrok/WebHome. It needs a jvm to run :-( and is based on exhuberant ctags for language parsing. It supports git natively.
Monday 27 September 2010 10:25:09 am
I just tried this :
$> svn checkout http://svn.github.com/ezsystems/ezpublish.git
and it did not exactly work. Did you manage to get it to work ? I wanted to test which svn commands were supported.
Per the source browsing tool : why not using github's native browsing system ?
Cheers !
Monday 11 October 2010 2:54:17 pm
@nico: no. First checkout worked, but upgrades failed (on file .gitignore)
Hence the bug
#017442Source Code Documentation Out of Date
Tuesday 12 October 2010 2:18:09 am
Indeed, same symptoms here now. We may have difficulties making a SVN mirror of github's repository available.
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