[oi-dev] Lets talk about Git

[Bayard Bell]

Andy,

I'd think we could use the same tools that illumos uses to mirror from
their authoritative repo to BitBucket and GitHub. I'd expect there are two
non-exclusive ways to approach mirroring: you can add hooks to the
canonical repo that cause it to push to the DVCS hubs as part of the
commit, or you can have a looser consistency sync with cron, which could
catch you up if a sync on canonical commit fails.

I think most of the case for git is a case for co-existence. People
potentially interested in OI but not previously involved in OpenSolaris are
more likely to know git than mercurial, so not having git available is a
potential limit for people who aren't sure the project is so cool they want
to bother with a first step that's a new tool. For existing developers,
there's not enough differentiation between the two that people necessarily
want to commit the time to learning how to use git properly because they
doubt it will ever save them a comparable amount. I think both sides are
right, which is why I favor allowing both.

The significant complication between how we approach DVCS and the way
illumos does it is that RTI limits the number of commiters. Ideally I'd
prefer to be able to take commits via DVCS pull requests and a bit of
workflow, which is something else we talked about at the meetup. I also
think this makes the commit process a bit less daunting. I've done some
research and feel I've got a decent grasp on what we'd need to do to make
this work, and you said you had some previous experience with the APIs that
you could contribute to getting it to work. How about we put our heads
together around the next meeting and sort this out?

Cheers,
Bayard

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Andrew Stormont <andyjstormont at gmail.com>wrote:

> I like the idea but I'm not sure how you'd go about setting something like
> that up.  How would you ensure both repositories are kept in sync?  The
> usual method as I understand it is to have one repository as the master and
> the rest as mirrors – but this doesn't allow you to commit to the mirrors –
> so they're not really equal.
>
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