[Dune] DUNE migration to Git complete

Tue May 7 15:32:06 CEST 2013

Dear Steffen,

also from my side: Thanks a lot for all your effort!!
I'll give a second beer …

(and I hope it doesn't delay the thesis :-) )

-- Peter

Am 06.05.2013 um 11:57 schrieb Christian Engwer <christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de>:

> Hi Steffen,
> 
> thanks a lot for all your work! You earned yourself a beer for our
> next meeting ;-)
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 11:36:59AM +0200, Steffen Müthing wrote:
>> Dear Dune users and developers,
>> 
>> the migration from SVN to Git is now complete! :-)
>> 
>> 
>> === Getting and browsing the code ===
>> 
>> Information on how to obtain the Git repositories can be found on [1]. There is a new repository
>> browser at [2], which is also tied into the commit emails.
>> 
>> 
>> === SVN repositories ===
>> 
>> We will keep the SVN repositories available for the time being, both as an archive and to avoid
>> breaking any scripts that rely on their existence, but remember that they are frozen and do not
>> receive updates anymore.
>> 
>> 
>> === Repository layout ===
>> 
>> There is a little bit of structure to the branch layout, see [3] for details. Moreover, the Wiki contains
>> the start of a collection of important information (like the whitespace policy) and useful tips (like
>> how to set up a credential cache), which can be found at [4].
>> 
>> 
>> === Commit messages ===
>> 
>> As anyone who is subscribed to the commit mailing list will have noticed, the format of the commit mails
>> has changed significantly. The most important change is that there are now two types of mails:
>> 
>> - branch update mails contain a short overview of all the commits that got added to a branch as part
>>  of a push operation. One such mail is generated for every branch update, even if you update several
>>  branches with a single push. The server does not generate mails for updates to the developer's personal
>>  branches (see [3] for an explanation of what those are).
>> 
>> - commit mails are similar to the old emails generated for the SVN repositories: they contain the commit
>>  message and a diff of the changes. In addition, they start with a list of all the branches the commit got
>>  added to *at the time the mail was generated*. See below for an explanation of why that restriction
>>  matters. Commit messages are generated the first time a commit is mentioned in a branch update mail,
>>  so commits that only get pushed to a personal branch will not trigger a commit mail. The commit mail will
>>  be generated as soon as the commit gets merged into master or a feature branch, however.
>> 
>> There is a third type of mail generated for tags, but as tagging is a rare operation, those probably
>> aren't all that important.
>> 
>> All that information can be a little inconvenient to navigate in plain-text emails, so the messages contain
>> links to the repository browser to show you the equivalent logs / commits in a format that's much easier
>> to navigate and poke around in.
>> 
>> In order to simplify filtering, all messages have a tag of either [Commit] or [branch] so that you can keep
>> the actual commit messages separate from the branch updates. For even more filtering, take a look at
>> the mail headers, there is quite a number of X-Git-* headers for that purpose.
>> 
>> 
>> === Whitespace cleanup ===
>> 
>> As part of the migration, we have taken the opportunity to remove trailing whitespace and reindent
>> all source files in the repositories. Don't be alarmed if a lot of files differ between the Git and Subversion
>> repositories, the changes are only in the whitespace (and in the editor indentation hints that have been
>> added in a uniform fashion), but if you want to contribute patches to Dune, please take a look at [5] for the
>> implications.
>> 
>> 
>> === GitHub mirror ===
>> 
>> The Dune repositories are also mirrored on GitHub at https://github.com/dune-project, but please keep using
>> our infrastructure (wiki, bug tracker etc.).
>> 
>> 
>> === git-svn ===
>> 
>> A lot of people have been using the git-svn bridge to interface with the SVN repositories.
>> If you are one of them, please be aware that the Git commits synthesized by git-svn are
>> not compatible with the new Git repositories. The cleanest way to migrate git-svn checkouts
>> is to just delete the git-svn repository and clone the new Git repository. We have also created
>> a [guide][6] to transferring any local patches you might have in git-svn to the new Git repository.
>> 
>> 
>> ======
>> 
>> Happy committing, branching, rebasing, merging, bisecting and whatever other crazy things you
>> might want to do in Git!
>> 
>> 
>> Steffen and the rest of the DUNE team
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://www.dune-project.org/downloadgit.html
>> 
>> [2] http://cgit.dune-project.org/repositories
>> 
>> [3]: http://users.dune-project.org/projects/main-wiki/wiki/Repository_layout
>> 
>> [4]: http://users.dune-project.org/projects/main-wiki/wiki/Guides_dune_core_modules
>> 
>> [5]: http://users.dune-project.org/projects/main-wiki/wiki/Whitespace_hook
>> 
>> [6]: http://users.dune-project.org/projects/main-wiki/wiki/Migrating_git-svn_patches
>> 
>> 
>> Steffen Müthing
>> Universität Stuttgart
>> Institut für Parallele und Verteilte Systeme
>> Universitätsstr. 38
>> 70569 Stuttgart
>> Tel: +49 711 685 88429
>> Fax: +49 711 685 88340
>> Email: steffen.muething at ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de
>> 
> 
> 
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