On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Raimond Spekking
> <raimond.spekk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Am 11.04.2012 00:46, schrieb Rob Lanphier:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Sam has created the wmf/1.20wmf1 branch and deployed it to
>>> test2.wikipedia.org and mediawiki.org.  So, please, go for and test!
>>>
>>> Oh, btw, enjoy the pretty new diff colors!  :)
>>>
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_1.19%2FRoadmap%2Fstatus&diff=516437&oldid=508794
>>>
>>> Rob
>>
>>
>> Congrats :-)
>>
>> A few questions:
>>
>> 1. What ID was the branch point? Is this still the correct term?
>>
>
> More or less. You can say "what commit was it branched at" too.
> In either case, the answer for core is 11f768c[0]. You can see the
> first couple of commits to wmf/1.20wmf1 starting with "Creating
> new WMF 1.20wmf1 branch." If you open any of the submodules
> in that commit, you'll be able to see the commit hash they were
> pinned at in the submodules.
>
>> 2. How can I track which IDs will be deployed after this initial deployment?
>> Currently I follow
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,mediawiki/+status:merged+branch:master,n,z
>> to read all merged commits.
>> Is there a 1.20 branch?
>>
>
> We branched from master, so everything's that's been merged in
> core or WMF-deployed extensions should be included. The commit
> sha1s (different for each extension) show up on Special:Version[1]
> and they link to GitWeb for each of those extensions.
>
> The cool thing about branching in git is you no longer see history
> on the deployment branch that starts *at the branch point.* You
> see the whole history of the file (as it appeared on master), so
> it's easy to track down where the file is in relation to master.
>
> -Chad
>
> [0] 
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/wmf/1.20wmf1
> [1] https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version

Reading back over my own e-mail, I realized it's a bit hard for
people to dig up the branch point if they don't know what they're
looking for--for future iterations, we'll have make-wmf-branch
include the branch point as part of the initial commit message.

-Chad

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