[savannah-help-public] [sr #109462] Document how to set up multiple git repositories in a project?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

URL:
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Summary: Document how to set up multiple git repositories in
a project?
Project: Savannah Administration
Submitted by: pere
Submitted on: Sun 11 Feb 2018 11:38:00 PM UTC
Category: Source code repositories - developer access
Priority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 3 - Normal
Status: None
Assigned to: None
Originator Email:
Operating System: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hi. We are working migrating sysvinit from svn to git, but did not find out
from https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/UsingGit/ how to set up the three
git repositories. We currently have three svn "modules", sysvinit, startpar
and insserv, and they should en up in three different git repositories.

I guess this request might be similar to request #109398, but I hope it might
be simpler to handle, as that request has been waiting for several months for
a solution.





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[Bob Proulx]

Update of sr #109462 (project administration):

Status: None => Done
Assigned to: None => rwp

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Follow-up Comment #1:

There isn't any standard procedure. Because with git there isn't ever a real
need for multiple directories. It is only a convenience since one can always
use different branches for the different subprojects of a main project just
like with svn that you are moving from. And they all have the same commit
permissions regardless.

You asked about documentation. There isn't any user documentation on it but
the documentation for the admin side of things is:

https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git/

You asked for two subdirectories and that seems reasonable. I have created
these subprojects for you for sysvinit. The naming can be either startpar.git
or sysvinit-startpar.git as you desire. Let us know if you want them renamed.
But I am guessing this is what you want.

$***@git.savannah.nongnu.org:/srv/git/sysvinit/startpar.git
$***@git.savannah.nongnu.org:/srv/git/sysvinit/insserv.git

Please say what you would like in each of the three project git description
files. Instead of "Unnamed repository". It is good to get those filled out
and there is no web interface to do so.

As to sr#109398 you have guilted me into looking at it. You know he asked for
25 subdirectories! That seems excessive. And apparently everyone else who
has looked at that ticket thought so as well or it would have been handled by
another of the volunteers. Things are somewhat of a democracy in that if no
one thinks something is worthy then it might not be worked on with the
enthusiasm of something that seems more worthy. For projects such as that one
I have been been hearing rumors that a GitLab instance is getting assembled
for GNU projects. I know little more than that rumor. But when available
that seems like it would be a better fit for that project.



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[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Follow-up Comment #2, sr #109462 (project administration):

Thank you very much. I suggest these descriptions:

insserv - boot sequence organizer using LSB init.d script dependency
information
startpar - run processes in parallel and multiplex their output
sysvinit - System-V-like boot system and utilities

The three git repositories are really three independent source projects that
for historical reasons ended up in the same subversion repository.

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[Bob Proulx]

Update of sr #109462 (project administration):

Open/Closed: Open => Closed

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Follow-up Comment #3:

Done. Descriptions have been updated.


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