Starting the Git Experiment (for realz)

[Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>]

Dear committers,

We now have a green light from the ASF to switch to using Git as our
writable VCS. This is to be considered a live experiment. If something
breaks its possible we'll have to revert back to SVN. But nothing will
break and everyone will forgive me for any bugs that may crop up.

Seeing as there were no objects the last time we voted to make the
switch, I plan on cutting over to git in about 6 hours to give people
time to finish up anything they were doing in SVN. That means that at
roughly 10P CST, SVN will be read-only and the Git repository will be
the canonical source repository.

I should also note that the eyes of the ASF are upon us as we continue
with this experiment. There are a few expectations that everyone
should keep in mind as we start working with Git over the next few
months. First, we should be keeping notes on things that work and
don't work with Git. Periodically I'll ask for feedback on things we
should document. One of the major things that is expected of us is to
produce an initial set of best-practices that can be adopted by other
projects if/when Git is adopted more widely at the ASF.

Some random things that come to mind that I'd like people to consider
moving forward are suggestions on policies for when and where to push
commits (ie, branch naming policies, rate of pushing, policies for
merging back into trunk/release branches, etc). Also, best practices
for how we interact with users on GitHub and other Git hosts. This
includes things like asking for submissions in the form of JIRA
tickets instead of Pull Requests and so forth.

I think we already have answers to most of these points but we'll need
to have them written down as documentation so that if things move
forward we will be able to teach other projects how we use Git.

Also, thanks everyone for putting up with me as I try and get all of
the various pieces together. Hopefully the roughest roads are behind
us and we'll be getting our rainbows and unicorns here shortly.

Thanks,
Paul Davis

Re: Starting the Git Experiment (for realz)

[Dustin Sallings <du...@spy.net>]

On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Paul Davis wrote:

> But nothing will
> break and everyone will forgive me for any bugs that may crop up.


	I'll help support anything strange that happens (though I don't pay very close attention to this list).

	Thanks a lot for your efforts.

-- 
dustin sallings

Re: Starting the Git Experiment (for realz)

[Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>]

Oops. Thanks for reminding me. I've updated the community page on
couchdb.a.o. I'll have to poke at gitweb a bit more to figure out the
best way to customeize the gitweb page.

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Florian Weimer <fw...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Paul Davis:
>
>> The writable Git repository is now live (finally).
>>
>> Non-committers can clone with:
>>
>>     $ git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
>>
>> And committers can clone with:
>>
>>     $ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
>
> Thanks.
>
> I think this information should be mentioned on
> <http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/repo?p=couchdb.git;a=summary>
> and <http://couchdb.apache.org/community/code.html>, too.
>

Re: Starting the Git Experiment (for realz)

[Florian Weimer <fw...@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Paul Davis:

> The writable Git repository is now live (finally).
>
> Non-committers can clone with:
>
>     $ git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
>
> And committers can clone with:
>
>     $ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git

Thanks.

I think this information should be mentioned on
<http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/repo?p=couchdb.git;a=summary>
and <http://couchdb.apache.org/community/code.html>, too.

Re: Starting the Git Experiment (for realz)

[Benoit Chesneau <bc...@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The writable Git repository is now live (finally).
>
> Non-committers can clone with:
>
>    $ git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
>
> And committers can clone with:
>
>    $ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
>
> Tickets related to bugs with Git @ the ASF should be directed to the
> Git component on the INFRA JIRA project which can be found here:
>
>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA/component/12312655
>
>
> Of special note, I remembered to switch the origin's HEAD to master
> this time so every thing is now done with the normal Git conventions.
> This shouldn't screw up any checkouts but people relying on tracking
> should update their local configurations so they keep getting commits.
> And of course, committers should push commits to master and not trunk.
>
> Apologies for the delay between my promised completion and now.
>
> Paul Davis
>
>

thanks!

- benoît

Re: Starting the Git Experiment (for realz)

[Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com>]

The writable Git repository is now live (finally).

Non-committers can clone with:

    $ git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git

And committers can clone with:

    $ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git

Tickets related to bugs with Git @ the ASF should be directed to the
Git component on the INFRA JIRA project which can be found here:

    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA/component/12312655


Of special note, I remembered to switch the origin's HEAD to master
this time so every thing is now done with the normal Git conventions.
This shouldn't screw up any checkouts but people relying on tracking
should update their local configurations so they keep getting commits.
And of course, committers should push commits to master and not trunk.

Apologies for the delay between my promised completion and now.

Paul Davis

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Paul Davis <pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear committers,
>
> We now have a green light from the ASF to switch to using Git as our
> writable VCS. This is to be considered a live experiment. If something
> breaks its possible we'll have to revert back to SVN. But nothing will
> break and everyone will forgive me for any bugs that may crop up.
>
> Seeing as there were no objects the last time we voted to make the
> switch, I plan on cutting over to git in about 6 hours to give people
> time to finish up anything they were doing in SVN. That means that at
> roughly 10P CST, SVN will be read-only and the Git repository will be
> the canonical source repository.
>
> I should also note that the eyes of the ASF are upon us as we continue
> with this experiment. There are a few expectations that everyone
> should keep in mind as we start working with Git over the next few
> months. First, we should be keeping notes on things that work and
> don't work with Git. Periodically I'll ask for feedback on things we
> should document. One of the major things that is expected of us is to
> produce an initial set of best-practices that can be adopted by other
> projects if/when Git is adopted more widely at the ASF.
>
> Some random things that come to mind that I'd like people to consider
> moving forward are suggestions on policies for when and where to push
> commits (ie, branch naming policies, rate of pushing, policies for
> merging back into trunk/release branches, etc). Also, best practices
> for how we interact with users on GitHub and other Git hosts. This
> includes things like asking for submissions in the form of JIRA
> tickets instead of Pull Requests and so forth.
>
> I think we already have answers to most of these points but we'll need
> to have them written down as documentation so that if things move
> forward we will be able to teach other projects how we use Git.
>
> Also, thanks everyone for putting up with me as I try and get all of
> the various pieces together. Hopefully the roughest roads are behind
> us and we'll be getting our rainbows and unicorns here shortly.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Davis
>