On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Eric Seidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it's time that we consider adding a "git" section to > http://webkit.org/building/checkout.html. > +1 Anecdotally, I imagine there are more webkit developers using git now than svn. > -eric > > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Eric Seidel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've now posted a patch to fix update-webkit as well: >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50273 >> >> Once that lands, I'll move the EWS bots over to using this "new" setup. >> Assuming those stay working, we can teach the tools to offer to fix "old" >> setups. >> >> -eric >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72575 for having scm.py do the right >>> thing. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Eric Seidel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> OK. Sounds we should make this setup default. I'll see if we can't >>>> educate update-webkit and webkitpy/common/checkout/scm.py about detecting >>>> this setup and doing the right thing in that case. >>>> >>>> I'll file a separate bug about making scm.py's Git object use >>>> --no-rebase during dcommit. >>>> >>>> -eric >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, David Levin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >> It's some magical setup by which your git svn fetchs will be much >>>>> faser. >>>>> >> But I've heard it's buggy? Can lead to local repository >>>>> corruption? >>>>> >> Can someone set me straight? >>>>> >>>>> No magic, just standard git: complicated, but logical once you >>>>> understand how it works. :\ >>>>> >>>>> It means that both "git pull" and "git svn fetch" will be updating the >>>>> same branch. When the latter sees the former has pulled down new >>>>> stuff (quickly, via the fast git protocol), it knows to rebuild its >>>>> metadata from the new stuff you fetched (rather than fetching it all >>>>> over again via the slow svn protocol). >>>>> >>>>> There's a catch: if you "git svn fetch", that creates new commits >>>>> locally. When you later "git pull", you get the commits that were >>>>> constructed by git.webkit.org, which don't match (due to differing >>>>> timestamps). This may screw up rebase, but I believe it's smart >>>>> enough to recognize the commits are "the same" (applied the same diff; >>>>> in git jargon, they have the same patch-id). In practice you don't >>>>> even run "git svn fetch" except when the git server is behind, so I >>>>> don't know if there are corner cases here that I haven't run into. (I >>>>> also haven't tried this on Windows in a while -- kind of terrified of >>>>> git there, though I hear it works for others.) >>>>> >>>>> In particular for bots that are not committing, I see no catch, other >>>>> than that they will be behind whenever git.webkit.org is behind. >>>>> >>>>> >> The current git svn fetch is *super* slow. Especially if you're >>>>> behind by >>>>> >> more than a day or two. >>>>> >> If there was a way to make this faster method safe, by wrapping it >>>>> in some >>>>> >> other (error-checking) command which knew how to fall back to git >>>>> svn >>>>> >> rebase, etc. when necessary I would love to make it the default >>>>> method for >>>>> >> all WebKit get users. >>>>> >>>>> I have instructed all Chrome git users to use this method since >>>>> (checking the commit history...) Feb 2009 and it seems to work for us. >>>>> Note that you need git >= 1.6.1 or so for it to work properly. I >>>>> also use this method for working on WebKit (though I've only committed >>>>> around 60 patches so I mostly use it for pulling down new code). >>>>> >>>>> PS: our tools also run svn dcommit with "--no-rebase" to avoid >>>>> needlessly going out to svn again after committing. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> webkit-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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