On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Daniel Spiewak <djspie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Those of you following development progress using Git are probably starting
> to notice that the classical "Vic Master" is no longer the all-knowing
> source of data. Actually, Assaf's GitHub fork has become the more
> trustworthy one. This is because upon its exit from incubation, Buildr
> gets
> to move its SVN repository to a new URL. This is good for the project, but
> bad for the Git forks since git-svn stores the URL information in its
> commit
> messages.
>
> The solution of course is to re-clone from SVN, which I assume exactly what
> Assaf did. There result is a repository which contains all of the same SVN
> commits as Vic's, but different messages and very different SHA1 revisions,
> meaning that Git has a much harder time merging between the two. I
> discovered this when I attempted to merge Assaf's latest changes with my
> master (forked from Vic's). 57 conflicts later (all petty, little issues
> unrelated to my additions), I finally had a working master with the latest
> commits. Unfortunately, when I cloned Assaf's repository directly and
> attempted to merge back some of my changes, it became very apparent that I
> would need to fix the issue in a more scientific manner.
>
> Long story short, the solution is to rebase all of your branches onto
> Assaf's master. I did this by finding the exact commit where I diverged
> from vic (I had it tagged, actually) as well as the corresponding commit in
> Assaf's master. These commits I tagged "branch-point" and
> "new-branch-point", respectively. Then for each branch, I did something
> like the following:
>
> git checkout scala-joint-compilation
> git rebase new-branch-point
>
> Once this was done, I went back to my master and performed a similar
> procedure:
>
> git checkout master
> git rebase -s ours new-branch-point
>
> This effectively wiped out all of my changes in that branch (it's possible
> that some commits may remain if you try it, but none did in my case). Once
> this was done, I went and picked through my origin/master log to see what I
> was missing. This meant re-merging all of my branches:
>
> git merge scala-joint-compilation
> git merge clojure
> ...
>
> Also, I had to cherry-pick a few commits that I had done on master (like
> four or five):
>
> git cherry-pick all-your-ant-base
> ...
>
> Once this was done, I pushed the result back to GitHub:
>
> git push -f origin
>
> The one caveat to this approach is I had all of my changes on numerous
> separate branches (for patching reasons). All of these branches were
> branched off of the same point on vic/master. Since there hadn't been any
> merging *between* the branches (only onto master), it was fairly easy to
> just rebase these branches onto the new trunk (I only had three conflicts
> in
> the whole process, all easily resolved). Just judging by GitHub, not many
> people are managing their repositories in this fashion. However, this does
> mean that you could be able to just rebase without the "-s ours" on your
> master and come to the same result.
>
> The point is that you will need to perform some conniptions of this sort in
> order to fix your repositories, otherwise your changes will remain
> incompatible with the Buildr mainline trunk: you won't be able to (easily)
> merge assaf/master, and he won't be able to (easily) pull from you.
>
> Incidentally, if anyone has a *better* way of doing this (particularly one
> where the entire master history doesn't get wiped out), I'm all ears! I do
> still have the unmerged repository sitting in Time Machine, so I'm
> perfectly
> willing to roll-forward a copy and try again if the result turns out to be
> more correct.
Thanks.
AFAIK it's not possible to git svn clone directly from svn.apache.org due to
some weird restriction they placed on the SVN server, it will just keep
git-svn hanging forever. Somehow that doesn't affect incubator projects, or
svn.eu.apache.org, although my starting point was Jukka's unofficial but
somewhat official git mirror[1].
When you git log, check the git-svn-id:
commit a3ab30a66a092bf730950bd95a1394253ebd2f39
Author: Assaf Arkin <as...@apache.org>
Date: Fri Feb 27 22:24:50 2009 +0000
> Fixed RDoc 2.3/2.4 conflict on rake setup.
git-svn-id:
https://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/buildr/tr...@74872213f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
If two repositories use a different URL -- look for http vs https,
svn.eu.apache.org vs svn.apache.org, asf/buildr vs asf/incubator/buildr --
Git considers them distinct trees (branches). Any time you merge, Git will
have to merge the entire history of these two branches, leading to a lot of
conflicts.
So if you have branches with changes, follow Daniel's instructions. If you
don't, you can still use the -s ours strategy to "switch" from one branch to
another.
Until Apache comes with a better solution, I'm going to keep my
repository synchronized against https://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/buildr.
I suggest you all do the same, that way we have the same history and can
easily merge with each other.
Assaf
[1] http://jukka.zitting.name/git/
>
>
> Daniel
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