Le 11/09/2020 à 12:42, Paolo Greppi a écrit : > Hi Andreas, > > Il 11/09/20 12:16, Andreas Tille ha scritto: >> Hi, >> >> in teams where I have lots of packages (summing up to more than 1000) >> I've touched) we followed the gbp default and have branches >> >> master >> upstream >> pristine-tar >> >> and this is also the layout fixed in those team policies. I admit I >> don't have strong feelings about branch names but I'm willing to >> normalize to some common standard which seems to be the now accepted >> DEP14. However, its not acceptable to change this manually. As far as >> to my experience it is hard to rename a default branch - at least I did >> this in those rare cases when I had to rename a default branch by using >> the Salsa web interface. >> >> My guess is that the Salsa API provides means to script everything. Is >> there any existing script that supports this or is there any volunteer >> to write it. I would start migrating Debian Med, Debian Science and >> R packaging team repositories once gbp also switched to DEP14. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Andreas. > > I would use a Python library as client to the Gitlab API on salsa. > We have this one already packaged in Debian: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-gitlab > > Disclaimer: I have already used this library for a different purpose: > https://salsa.debian.org/paolog/bts2salsa > > I am interested in working on this for the JavaScript team, > but of course only if the team agrees to this bulk change. > > Paolo
Hi, salsa(1) can do it. See "rename_branch" command in manpage. Cheers, Xavier -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel