tl;dr -- Q: launchpad or github? A: #disapprovingasianfather: Why not both?
I've been testing git-bzr-ng, a plugin for git that provides two-way syncing between a git repo and launchpad. Initial results are promising, and I think I'm going to set up a github tree soon for wider testing. I think a simple cron script could be used to keep branches in github synced with branches in launchpad. For those playing along at home, my process is: 1. create empty git repo: git init my-git-tree && cd my-git-tree 2. clone a launchpad tree: git bzr clone lp:mixxx mixxx-trunk && cd mixxx-trunk This is slow because it checks out the whole bzr history and then replays it into git. However it only has to be done once per bzr tree and I can clone the mixxx tree in under ten minutes. Subsequent pulls/pushes are much faster of course. branches now look like this: git branch -a bzr/master * master in which "master" is a clone of lp:mixxx, and bzr/master is a magical entity which I've found isn't really meant to be used directly. It's sort of the halfway house that git-bzr-ng uses to get back to bzr. Short answer: there's no need to touch bzr/master, but don't remove it either. 3. pull in updates from bzr: git bzr pull 4. make edits in git: nano whatever.cpp 5. commit the changes in git: git commit -a 6. push the changes to lp: git bzr push Note that on Ubuntu 12.10, I get an python error here from bzr-fastimport. This small patch fixes it (I just edited revision_store.py by hand): http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~agrimm/bzr-fastimport/baseline-commit/revision/342 7. Now create a repo on github with the web UI. 8. Tell git about the remote: git remote add origin g...@github.com:ywwg/lp-test.git 9. Tell git to have the current branch track that remote as upstream: git branch -u remotes/origin/master 10. Pull from github to get the README and .gitignore it may have created: git pull 11. Push to github. This will take a while to upload the whole revision history: git push So now you can sync from lp to git: git bzr pull && git push And sync from git to lp: git pull && git bzr push NOTE: If you're trying this and do a git bzr push right now, you'll push in the .gitignore and README file that github created. Try going git diff bzr/master and you'll see. I believe this is cronable, although I have to confirm that the commands don't ask for user input. What happens when someone edits both launchpad and git in between syncs? I have no idea. There could be conflicts that would have to be manually resolved, I suspect. Have a look at https://github.com/ywwg/lp-test to see what I pushed. Notice the commit log is intact, and even gitk shows all of the branching / merging! (https://github.com/ywwg/lp-test/commits/master). And somehow github knows about RJ too! TODO: See if I can also check out branches like mixxx/1.11 and see if github understands how those relate. Owen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
