[Nut-upsdev] SVN migration status

[Peter Selinger]

Hi Charles,

thanks for doing the migration. A relatively minor comment: unless
your username on svn.debian.org is the same as your local username,
you probably need something like

 svn+ssh://selinger-guest@svn.debian.org/svn/nut/trunk

for developer access to the repository.

I agree that Trac is nicer than whatever that thing is that the Debian
host provides. It is too bad that Trac can apparently not handle a
remote repository; otherwise, it would be easy to attach Trac on your
own server to the debian-hosted repository. Do you have any idea why
Trac cannot do this? It would seem to make sense, since Trac uses the
repository in a read-only way anyway. However, I tried setting this
up, and could not get it to work. -- Peter

Charles Lepple wrote:
> 
> It looks like the Subversion migration is working. The CVS repository
> is still there, but in read-only mode. However, the SVN repository
> preserves the version history of the CVS repository, albeit organized
> slightly differently.
> 
> For an introduction to Subversion, this online book is essential:
> 
>    http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
> 
> It is written by some of the Subversion authors. The only drawback I
> can think of is their frivolous use of footnotes. Feel free to ignore
> them on the first read-through.
> 
> Here are the suggested chapters/sections for NUT developers:
> 
> Intro:
>     http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch01.html
> 
> Concepts:
>     http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch02.html
> 
> Guided Tour:
>     http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch03.html
> 
> Branches and merging:
>     http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04.html
> 
> Properties:
>     http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html
> 
> For NUT, the read-only SVN URL is:
>     svn://svn.debian.org/nut/trunk
> 
> (replace "trunk" with "branches/foo" or "tags/bar" as appropriate, but
> in general, you don't need to check out trunk/ branches/ and tags/ all
> at the same time)
> 
> The CVS "Development" tag is now "trunk" in SVN, and the "Stable" and
> "Testing" tags are "branches/Stable" and "branches/Testing",
> respectively. Feel free to make liberal use of the "branches" and
> "tags" directory - with Subversion, tags can be deleted (to keep the
> tags directory organized and relevant), but if you go back in the
> repository timeline, you can still refer to the tags for diffs and
> such.
> 
> The most up-to-date place to track revisions is here:
>     http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nut
> 
> Personally, I think wsvn is not as transparent as Trac, so I will be
> synchronizing my local Trac setup from time to time: (yes, I will try
> and automate this at some point)
>     http://boxster.ghz.cc/projects/nut
> 
> If you are a developer, you can access the repository via:
>     svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/nut/trunk (note the extra '/svn/' before '=
> nut')
> 
> To avoid typing in your password all the time, you will want to add
> your SSH public key(s) here:
>     https://alioth.debian.org/account/editsshkeys.php
> 
> Of course, if your SSH private keys have a password, you will still
> need to type that in every time. To reduce the number of times you
> have to type your password, you may wish to investigate ssh-agent(1).
> 
> If you have mail filters for the commit messages, you may want to look
> at this message:
>     http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-commits/2006-February/0003=
> 60.html
> 
> Property changes (see the link to Chapter 7 section 2 above) will
> replace "svn commit" with "svn propchange" in the subject.
> 
> Congratulations for making it to the end of this message. Hopefully
> the transition will not be too difficult, and you will find SVN to be
> a pleasant improvement over CVS. Email me with any questions.
> 
> --
> - Charles Lepple
> 
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