On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:42:54 +0000 Tom Hacohen
<tom.haco...@samsung.com> wrote:

> On 27/02/13 11:35, David Seikel wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:28:01 +0000 Tom Hacohen
> > <tom.haco...@samsung.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 27/02/13 11:19, David Seikel wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:47:09 +0000 "Eoff, Ullysses A"
> >>> <ullysses.a.e...@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> jhbuild (https://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild) is another tool that can
> >>>> do this too.
> >>>>
> >>>> U. Artie
> >>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Tom Hacohen [mailto:tom.haco...@samsung.com]
> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:21 AM
> >>>>> To: Enlightenment developer list
> >>>>> Subject: [E-devel] Git: Multiple repositories cloning helper
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hey all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now that everything is nicely split to small repositories, it's
> >>>>> "more work" to clone all the repositories.
> >>>>> There's a tool Google has created for Android called "repo"
> >>>>> (http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html), that
> >>>>> manages multiple repositories.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Alternatively, if you don't like the "repo" tool, you can use a
> >>>>> small tool we wrote.
> >>>>> Our small tool helps you clone, pull (--rebase) updates, and run
> >>>>> arbitrary commands (like make and make install).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You can get it from this repo:
> >>>>> git://git.enlightenment.org/devs/tasn/git_multi.git
> >>>>>
> >>>>> README (for those that are too lazy to open the README from the
> >>>>> repo): This is a small script that helps pulling, cloning and
> >>>>> running arbitrary commands in multiple repositories. Designed to
> >>>>> help with the EFL.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You should modify the REPOS and DEV_ACCESS at the top of the
> >>>>> script before using.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Usage examples:
> >>>>> Clone all repos:
> >>>>> ./git_multi.sh clone
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Update all repos (pull --rebase):
> >>>>> ./git_multi.sh pull
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Fetch (without rebasing or merging or anything):
> >>>>> ./git_multi.sh run "git fetch"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Make and install (with sudo):
> >>>>> ./git_multi.sh run "make && sudo make install"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> The SVN Elimination Team.
> >>>
> >>>   From what I can tell after some research, all of these need
> >>> someone on the server end to create a list of all the repos, or to
> >>> create such a list manually on the client end.  There does not
> >>> seem to be any AUTOMATED way of collecting the list of all the
> >>> repos, short of scraping the http://git.enlightenment.org/ web
> >>> page, which might itself be manually created?  Git seems to not
> >>> provide this sort of functionality.  Someone correct me if I'm
> >>> wrong please.
> >>>
> >>> Or to put it more simply, a way to just clone every single repo,
> >>> without any manual work at either end.  Including new ones that
> >>> get added at random times, possibly without any announcement.
> >>>
> >>> There's over three dozen now, manual work is just not gonna cut
> >>> it.
> >>
> >> That's not what those tools are for. No one should ever want to
> >> clone all the git repositories on the server. The mess we used to
> >> have in svn is a disease we managed to cure, not something we
> >> would like to bring back.
> >
> > I think this cure is worse than the disease then, though I have no
> > idea what aspect of it you think is a "disease".  I want to clone
> > them all, it's entirely possible someone else might want to clone
> > them all. Or at least clone some of the ones that you don't think
> > are needed.
> 
> Please tell me why you'd need 10 photo viewers that cloned into your 
> box. I'm quite interested. What possible reason would you have to
> clone them all? Clone some of the ones I don't think as needed: you
> can add how many repos you'd like to the script I wrote, or clone
> them "manually".

The failure of your imagination is not my problem.

BTW, a decent build bot would also want to automatically figure out all
the repos, coz that's one less thing to have to manually configure.

> >> Those solutions only provide specific components, that's the whole
> >> idea, only the needed ones.
> >
> > How do people know what is needed, if there's no automatic list to
> > choose from?
> 
> They get all the core ones, which are the core essentials, and then
> get the extra stuff they might want. Or read about it in the website.
> 
> >
> > Is http://git.enlightenment.org/ compiled automatically?
> 
> Yes, it's automatically generated.

See?  It's much easier to answer my question than to tell me that I
don't want what I said I want.

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.

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