Hi Christian Thank you for your reply.
I'm trying to implement the SCMTools for one of the repositories that I work with. I'm trying to figure out what exactly it is that reviewboard wants with this class. How should my implementation be for reviewboard to talk to it? Thanks Albert On Jun 20, 10:20 pm, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > Hi Albert, > > The SCMTool class is the communication layer between Review Board and > the repositories. Every supported source code management system (Git, > Subversion, etc.) have a corresponding SCMTool class. > > Primarily, the class has a few main purposes: downloading files (based > on path and revision) from a repository, and parsing the diff (using a > custom DiffParser subclass) for revision information (and any special > metadata that's useful). There are some other things it does as well, > though, particularly in 1.5. For example, checking if a repository > path points to a valid repository, converting a SCM-specific revision > string into a normalized Review Board revision indicator, checking if > a file at all exists in a repository, and a few other small things. > > Without knowing your needs, I can't say much. However, if you look at > the other SCMTool classes, you should have some good examples to work > from. > > In Review Board, any bundled SCMTool must live in the scmtools > directory, and the module path must be included in setup.py. To get a > development environment to recognize it, you'd run > './reviewboard/manage.py registerscmtools'. If you're using a > production environment with this tool, you can either build your own > package from your development tree, or package your SCMTool as a > third-party Python egg, add lines in your setup.py file based on the > SCMTool lines in Review Board's setup.py, install your package, and do > an rb-site upgrade on your site. > > Christian > > On Thursday, June 17, 2010, Albert <albert.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I need to understand the role of SCMTool class and how a class > > inheriting from this should be implmented. Any information will be > > greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > Albert > > > -- > > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today > > athttp://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ > > Happy user? Let us know athttp://www.reviewboard.org/users/ > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > -- > -- > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > Review Board -http://www.reviewboard.org > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com -- Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at http://www.reviewboard.org/donate/ Happy user? Let us know at http://www.reviewboard.org/users/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reviewboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en
