Proposal: Gitolite for repository management

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Excellent -- but don't just tell me! Could you add that guidance to the wiki?

Thanks

SImon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Herbert Valerio Riedel [mailto:hvr at gnu.org]
|  Sent: 31 July 2013 10:06
|  To: Simon Peyton-Jones
|  Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-devs at haskell.org; Herbert Valerio Riedel
|  Subject: Re: Proposal: Gitolite for repository management
|  
|  On 2013-07-31 at 03:21:48 +0200, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
|  
|  [...]
|  
|  > * I have lots of check-out repos.  Each contains lots of .git/config files
|  >    because of the multi-repo nature of the GHC build system.  It would be
|  >    a pain to have to edit each individually.  Maybe you can tell us a sync-all
|  >    command to update the URL and pushurl configs, once per tree.
|  
|  The following should do the trick with the current `./sync-all` for developers:
|  
|    ./sync-all -r ssh://git@git.haskell.org remote set-url origin
|    ./sync-all -r ssh://git@git.haskell.org remote set-url --push origin
|  
|  Non-authenticated users who have been using only the http:// urls don't
|  have to switch right-away (as the old http://darcs.haskell.org uris will
|  continue to work), but in the long-term they'll want to update their
|  Git urls via
|  
|    ./sync-all -r http://git.haskell.org remote set-url origin
|  
|  not the least to benefit from the more efficient Git's smart http
|  transport[1] (should we decide to enable that on
|  http://git.haskell.org/).
|  
|  PS: The reason I modification to `sync-all` are mentioned is because it
|      contains references to the old Git urls in its emitted help texts.
|  
|  [1]: http://git-scm.com/blog/2010/03/04/smart-http.html
|  
|  Cheers,
|    hvr