[Savannah-help-public] Re: coreutils is moving to distributed version control

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 02:08:49AM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 05:02:15PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >> rsync write access is good, at least initially.
> > >> Unless there's some other way for me to transfer the original
> > >> .git repository, and potentially, to overwrite it with a new
> > >> one as I experiment and (likely, as I learn) want to start fresh.
> > >
> > > After some thoughs, we cannot provide direct and complete rsync access
> > > with our current security model which is: no local access (and not
> > > custom hooks). Even CVS replication is made in such a way that CVSROOT
> > > is not overwritten.
> > >
> > > I'd rather work on setting git up so it can suit your needs as well as
> > > those of other users :)
> > >
> > > I need to implement a Savane interface to backup&reset any repository
> > > on project admin's demand - if you can help work on this, that'd be
> > > welcome =)
> > 
> > I'm ready to mirror coreutils' git repository to savannah, now.
> > Since coreutils-6.4, I'm using git, and mirroring all changes to cvs.
> > 
> > If things are ready, what are the options and paths for push/pull?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The git setup is still functional.
> 
> I put some updated notes at:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git
> 
> Of course it is still pretty raw so we need to make it evolve
> together.
> 
> Is this kind of access (git+ssh) enough for your mirroring purposes?
> 
> 
> > Have you considered the software behind repo.or.cz?  It's free (GPL'd).
> 
> No I didn't, thanks for the useful link.
> 
> It does things in ways not very compatible with Savannah but we
> definitely do the same job, as far as git is concerned.
> 
> I see that it uses a nifty naming convention:
> /git/project.git
> /git/project/other_repos.git
> 
> I think I'll adopt it :)

I installed gitweb, to browse the repositories:
http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/

Can you have a look and tell me what you think of it?

-- 
Sylvain