[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Converting repository to git (was: Consolidating MW branches)

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:

> I reserve the right to use gbp myself, but I won't force it on you :) 

Sure, as long as the “standard Debian way” dpkg-buildpackage -S -I -i
will continue to work, no problem.

> With MW upstream now in git it does make sense (to me at least) to 
> follow them, if nothing else to make cherry-picking more 
> straightforward.

Right. We can actually just pull the entire MW git into an upstream
branch, like David Bremner talked about at DebČevapiConf.

> force MW-e to follow suit though; I envisage using git sub-modules for 
> this so we can bring MW-e across when you're ready.

Actually, I’d rather have separate git repos for MW-core, MW-extensions
etc. (it’s also the git way to separate them).

> Well, I haven't had chance yet to fully digest how extensions get from 
> upstream into our svn, so I'll put this on my list of things to look at 
> when it's raining and see if we can streamline the process in some way.

That check_versions.pl basically downloads them. I find it
complicated, but it’s what we inherited from Romain. I could
probably come up with something more simple, especially when
considering most extensions are in a git repo of their own,
but don’t want to throw away that stuff unless Romain decides
to let it go.

bye,
//mirabilos
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