Having Review Board manage the clone means adding new pieces of infrastructure for scheduling changes. At that point, you may as well use crontab.
We don't want Review Board to do the pulls on demand, because you may end up with two requests happening at once, each causing a pull and generating conflicts. So it's something we basically need admins to handle themselves. The very easiest way is to get gitweb or something going. We're considering rolling our own little thing to stick on a server with a Git repository that Review Board will be able to know about and talk to in an effort to simplify a lot of this, but we're not there yet. Christian -- Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com Review Board - http://www.reviewboard.org VMware, Inc. - http://www.vmware.com On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Christopher Orr <ch...@orr.me.uk> wrote: > Thanks for the confirmation. > > Is there any chance of an option that just allows the full local clone > to be done over git (if the user says that's fine)? > Or would that be too strenuous on Review Board, as it would > (presumably) have to call "git clone" any time someone hits "Upload > diff"? > > Chris > > > On Feb 2, 10:18 pm, Christian Hammond <chip...@chipx86.com> wrote: > > Yeah, unfortunately, Git provides no way to access individual files from > a > > remote repository without a full local clone, which is why the only two > > options are having that clone or accessing over gitweb or a similar > service. > > > > We should definitely do better validation to make sure you can never > enter a > > remote URL without the raw file mask. > > > > Christian > > > > -- > > Christian Hammond - chip...@chipx86.com > > Review Board -http://www.reviewboard.org > > VMware, Inc. -http://www.vmware.com > > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Stephen Gallagher < > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > step...@gallagherhome.com> wrote: > > > On 02/02/2011 08:12 AM, Christopher Orr wrote: > > > > I just reproduced this while trying to use RB 1.5.2 with a custom > > > > remote repository (git+ssh://). > > > > By trial-and-error, it seems the 'None' error occurs if the "Raw file > > > > URL mask" field is empty. > > > > > > Is it correct to say there's no way to set up a git repository in > > > > Review Board, if the git server is remote and you have no web-based > > > > access to it? > > > > > In that situation, I think what you would want to do is clone the git > > > repository locally and use a cron job to keep it up to date with the > > > remote repository. That's probably the only way around this. > > > > > Or, if you have control of the remote repository, add a post-commit > hook > > > that notifies your clone to update itself (this would be less wasteful > > > of network resources). > > > > > -- > > > Want to help the Review Board project? Donate today at > > >http://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<reviewboard%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <reviewboard%2Bunsubscribe@googlegr oups.com> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > > -- > 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<reviewboard%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/reviewboard?hl=en > -- 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
