[Amavisd-new-debian-devel] Converting amavisd-new repo to git

Alexander Wirt formorer at formorer.de
Wed Jun 8 20:19:44 UTC 2011


Harald Jenny schrieb am Wednesday, den 08. June 2011:

> Hi Alex
> 
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:47:48PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > Alexander Wirt schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. June 2011:
> > 
> > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. June 2011:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> > > > > Brian May schrieb am Tuesday, den 07. June 2011:
> > > > > > On 22 May 2011 17:56, Alexander Wirt <formorer at formorer.de> wrote:
> > > > > > > as it seems I am - more or less - the only persons that maintains amavisd-new
> > > > > > > nowadays. Amavisd-new is currently my last package that uses mecurial,
> > > > > > > everything else moved to git. So if nobody objects I'll convert the mercurial
> > > > > > > repo to git. Maybe using standard tool helps in getting fresh blood into the
> > > > > > > packaging.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Somehow I managed to miss this email. Oops.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Anyway, I am happy with the change to git. More of my projects now use
> > > > > > git, so I am more familiar with it then before.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Have you made the move? Where can I find the git repository?
> > > > > On my laptop: yes. On alioth: as soon as you make an admin of the project :). 
> > > > 
> > > > Done.
> > > > 
> > > > And everyone which was just Admin is now both Admin and Senior
> > > > Developer.
> > > > 
> > > > Please make sure when you do the initial push to the git repo, to do it
> > > > in such a way that it will handle more than one git tree.
> > > > 
> > > > Bonus points if the git tree has all previously released packages in it,
> > > > and the full (or cleaned up, whatever) history from hg.
> > > > 
> > > > IME, full history in the git repo can be very very handy in a few years
> > > > from now if you ever find yourself in need to discover WHEN some change
> > > > was introduced, etc.  Been there, got saved by history logs and git
> > > > blame output finding important stuff commited > 5 years ago in the
> > > > Cyrus-IMAP packages, and >3 years ago in the kernel
> > > > thinkpad-acpi/ibm-acpi driver.
> > > Here we are:
> > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=amavisd-new/pkg-amavisd-new.git;a=summary
> > What if forgot: if you don't know it yet:
> > gbp-clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/amavisd-new/pkg-amavisd-new.git
> 
> When do you estimate to have the amavisd-milter repository ready?
Hm, as the hg webfrontend is still borken, where can I find the repo? 

Alex




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