On 11/12/17 15:27, Rémy Maucherat wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 06/12/17 11:30, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> On 06/12/17 10:34, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >> >> <snip/> >> >>>> If the goal is to create a single Git repository from our several ones, >>>> my suggestion is to create a repository and pull in the branches from >>>> the existing 7/8/8.5/9 git mirrors. >> >> <snip/> >> >>> Sounds good. And it can be tested without impacting on any of the >>> current public repos. I'll try it out and report back. >> >> I've tested this with trunk and 8.5.x. and it works well. It is also >> very quick. Much better than my original plan. We would be able to add >> the older branches to the existing git mirror of trunk. That would make >> the process something like: >> >> - make svn read-only for trunk, 8.5.x, 8.0.x and 7.0.x >> - disable svn->git mirroring >> - make git for trunk read/write (we could switch to github as the master >> at the same time) >> - merge in branches for 8.5.x, 8.0.x and 7.0.x >> - clean-up tags >> - update CI systems, web pages etc for new locations >> - move trunk, 8.5.x, 8.0.x and 7.0.x to the archive >> >> Before we do this, there are a number of points we should think about. >> You listed a couple below. There are others on some older threads on >> this topic. >> >> I suggest we write up (I'm happy to start it) a list of potential issues >> and solutions on the wiki and make sure we are happy with those >> solutions before we migrate. >> > Do we get a "demo" repo to see the result ?
Because the plan above starts with the existing git mirror when we do decide to migrate it will be directly on the live repo. However, I'm happy to pull together a (read-only) demo git repo of what it would look like based on a point in time snapshot. I should be able to do that this week. I also need to get that list of potential issues and solutions written up. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
