Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-10 Thread Matthew Brush
On 05/10/11 14:05, Jiří Techet wrote: I really have nothing specific against GitHub (actually from what I have seen I like it better than Gitorious) and I have no evidence they are planning to change their policy. What I wanted to say is that the selection of the right VCS hosting site is much l

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-10 Thread Jiří Techet
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 20:12, Colomban Wendling wrote: > Le 09/05/2011 19:35, Jiří Techet a écrit : >> I'd say that VCS migration and bug tracking system migration should be >> done separately and independently. Migration of the bug tracker is a >> lot of work while migration to git is quite easy.

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Matthew Brush
On 05/09/11 17:16, Colomban Wendling wrote: Maybe, need to check but might not be that painful (BTW, don't GitHub offers a SF BT import feature? :D) It wouldn't surprise me if it does have such a feature (or script available somewhere). Alternatively, I could probably hack something togethe

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 10/05/2011 01:34, Matthew Brush a écrit : > On 05/09/11 11:12, Colomban Wendling wrote: >> Le 09/05/2011 19:35, Jiří Techet a écrit : > >>> >>> I'd say that VCS migration and bug tracking system migration should be >>> done separately and independently. Migration of the bug tracker is a >>> lot

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 10/05/2011 00:43, Lex Trotman a écrit : >> But the point on the possible future of GitHub is important IMO. if we >> have no guarantee for the long-term viability -- and when I read you I >> read "I'd not be really surprised if it happened" --, do we really want >> to use this? I mean, if we nee

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Matthew Brush
On 05/09/11 11:12, Colomban Wendling wrote: Le 09/05/2011 19:35, Jiří Techet a écrit : I'd say that VCS migration and bug tracking system migration should be done separately and independently. Migration of the bug tracker is a lot of work while migration to git is quite easy. I'd also be rath

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Lex Trotman
> But the point on the possible future of GitHub is important IMO. if we > have no guarantee for the long-term viability -- and when I read you I > read "I'd not be really surprised if it happened" --, do we really want > to use this? I mean, if we need to switch to another official repo next > yea

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 09/05/2011 19:35, Jiří Techet a écrit : > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 16:16, Colomban Wendling > wrote: >>> - Effort required to move the project >> >> That's the big part! > > Not that bad if you move the repository only to GitHub - see below. Right. >>> - No need to maintain changelog and autho

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Mon, 9 May 2011 19:44:15 +0200, Jiří wrote: >2011/5/8 Enrico Tröger : >>>Hi Enrico, >>> >>>in principle you have to put something like >>> >>>git push --mirror your_github_repository >>> >>>under .git/hooks/post-receive (in the local geany repository). When >>>creating the github repository, yo

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Jiří Techet
2011/5/8 Enrico Tröger : >>Hi Enrico, >> >>in principle you have to put something like >> >>git push --mirror your_github_repository >> >>under .git/hooks/post-receive (in the local geany repository). When >>creating the github repository, you should create a new public/private >>key pair and make

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Jiří Techet
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 16:16, Colomban Wendling wrote: >> Cons from the previous thread: >> - It's more social > > I have some cons against social networks, but there are pros here, so... > >> - Not plain enough (I guess too Web 2.0/feature-full/cluttered) > > I don't personally mind if it's not i

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Oliver Krystal
On 5/9/2011 9:27 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote: I second the Git switch, so 1/4 (and I guess Frank will second too). Just note I have no experience using GitHub (or even no real with Gitorious) or working with pull requests and co, but I'd be happy to git it a try -- and probably adopt it. Cheers

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 03/05/2011 00:43, Jiří Techet a écrit : > On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 16:33, Thomas Martitz > wrote: >> Am 02.05.2011 00:18, schrieb Jiří Techet: >>> >>> Yes, I would also prefer if there was a proper and complete git switch >>> (it would greatly save maintainer's work IMO) but I haven't seen much >

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Le 28/04/2011 23:43, Jiří Techet a écrit : > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 07:01, Matthew Brush wrote: >> On 04/27/11 21:01, Lex Trotman wrote: - No need to maintain changelog and authors files >>> >>> Changelog and authors are still needed for tarballs, but maybe they >>> can be automated? >>

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-09 Thread Colomban Wendling
Hey, Sorry for the response delay, but not I answer: Le 28/04/2011 03:36, Matthew Brush a écrit : > Summary from previous thread: > The people in the thread who do not want to switch to Git, or those who > don't seem to care either way, are those who have commit access to > Subversion on SourceFo

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-08 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Sun, 1 May 2011 17:53:21 +0200, Jiří wrote: >2011/4/30 Enrico Tröger : >> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:34:51 +1000, Lex wrote: >> >>>2011/4/30 Enrico Tröger : On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:43:39 +0200, Jiří wrote: >One more idea - even if the core developers don't want the switch, >at

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-02 Thread Matthew Brush
On 05/02/11 15:43, Jiří Techet wrote: So direct question: Enrico, Nick, what's your opinion on the git switch? As Matthew said, it seems that it's possible to access a github repository both via svn and git so both the current workflow and git-based workflow should be possible. Of course I'll try

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-02 Thread Jiří Techet
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 16:33, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 02.05.2011 00:18, schrieb Jiří Techet: >> >> Yes, I would also prefer if there was a proper and complete git switch >> (it would greatly save maintainer's work IMO) but I haven't seen much >> enthusiasm from the core developers for the move

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-02 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 02.05.2011 00:18, schrieb Jiří Techet: Yes, I would also prefer if there was a proper and complete git switch (it would greatly save maintainer's work IMO) but I haven't seen much enthusiasm from the core developers for the move so it's better if people who use git have at least an up-to-date

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-02 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 02.05.2011 03:33, schrieb Matthew Brush: [1] https://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support [2] https://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support Ah, that was what I was asking for in my other mail. However, it seems not very ideal for SVN users. Best regards. __

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-01 Thread Matthew Brush
On 05/01/11 14:46, Thomas Martitz wrote: Am 30.04.2011 11:48, schrieb Matthew Brush: I think the more important part is, are the core developers going to accept pull/merge requests on github/gitorious, apply commits/patches from there, etc.? If it's only going to be another read-only git mirror

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-01 Thread Jiří Techet
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 23:46, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Am 30.04.2011 11:48, schrieb Matthew Brush: >> >> I think the more important part is, are the core developers going to >> accept pull/merge requests on github/gitorious, apply commits/patches from >> there, etc.?  If it's only going to be anoth

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-01 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 30.04.2011 11:48, schrieb Matthew Brush: I think the more important part is, are the core developers going to accept pull/merge requests on github/gitorious, apply commits/patches from there, etc.? If it's only going to be another read-only git mirror, it's kind of pointless. I don't mea

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-01 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 30.04.2011 11:52, schrieb Enrico Tröger: But we have git.geany.org. The mirror GIT repositories are synced from SVN and the sync is triggered by commit mails. So, we do have a kind of our own commit hook, from SVN as well as from GIT. I just don't know what I should do in the hook :). As

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-05-01 Thread Jiří Techet
2011/4/30 Enrico Tröger : > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:34:51 +1000, Lex wrote: > >>2011/4/30 Enrico Tröger : >>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:43:39 +0200, Jiří wrote: >>> >>> One more idea - even if the core developers don't want the switch, at least the current geany git repository could be set up t

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-30 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:34:51 +1000, Lex wrote: >2011/4/30 Enrico Tröger : >> On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:43:39 +0200, Jiří wrote: >> >> >>>One more idea - even if the core developers don't want the switch, at >>>least the current geany git repository could be set up to push >>>changes to github so peop

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-30 Thread Matthew Brush
On 04/30/11 02:07, Enrico Tröger wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:43:39 +0200, Jiří wrote: One more idea - even if the core developers don't want the switch, at least the current geany git repository could be set up to push changes to github so people who want to use git have an up-to-date mirror

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-30 Thread Lex Trotman
2011/4/30 Enrico Tröger : > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:43:39 +0200, Jiří wrote: > > >>One more idea - even if the core developers don't want the switch, at >>least the current geany git repository could be set up to push changes >>to github so people who want to use git have an up-to-date mirror from >

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-30 Thread Enrico Tröger
On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:43:39 +0200, Jiří wrote: >One more idea - even if the core developers don't want the switch, at >least the current geany git repository could be set up to push changes >to github so people who want to use git have an up-to-date mirror from >which they can clone and create t

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-28 Thread Jiří Techet
Hi Matthew, you couldn't express my feelings better. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 07:01, Matthew Brush wrote: > On 04/27/11 21:01, Lex Trotman wrote: >>> >>> - No need to maintain changelog and authors files >> >> Changelog and authors are still needed for tarballs, but maybe they >> can be automated

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-27 Thread Matthew Brush
On 04/27/11 21:01, Lex Trotman wrote: - No need to maintain changelog and authors files Changelog and authors are still needed for tarballs, but maybe they can be automated? Seems not too hard with git log and some shell script[1]. I think the original thread also mentions a way (or that it

Re: [Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-27 Thread Lex Trotman
Nice summary Matthew, As far as I remember it, seems to be accurate. > Summary from previous thread: > The people in the thread who do not want to switch to Git, or those who > don't seem to care either way, are those who have commit access to > Subversion on SourceForge.  Most (if not all) cont

[Geany-devel] Git Switch (again)

2011-04-27 Thread Matthew Brush
Hi, I'd like to revive this thread[1]. I wasn't around during the initial thread but Jiri has just pointed me to it and I read it through. I'd like to summarize (at least my take) on that thread and then list some pros and cons to stimulate a discussion. Disclaimer: I am not an expert on a