Re: [Geotools-devel] Canonical github repository

[Justin D. <jde...@op...>]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Justin Deoliveira <jde...@op...>wrote:

> Well... for now the idea is that no, you wouldn't push changes directly to
> this repository. What i had in mind was that one would fork the repo
> locally in his/her own account, and mostly work from that. Pushing changes
> back into svn will still be down with an svn dcommit from your own copy,
> not by pushing back to the canonical github representation. Which actually
> brings up a good point I forgot to mention and should write up on the
> github wiki page. That is when one clones the github repo it will not be
> linked back to svn, that will require another svn init in the clone.
>
> Process documented here:

https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki


> In terms of keeping the forks up to date... again doing an svn rebase from
> your local fork will do that, no need to pull in changes from the github
> clone... although i guess one could.
>
> The main benefit I see is a common history among developers individual
> repos, making it easy to share changes and do collaborative branch
> development.
>
> -Justin
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, <chr...@nv...> wrote:
>
>> Aha, I knew it, it starts get confusing to me.
>>
>> Does this mean that I can use git for geotools and push my changes to
>> this new repo ?.
>>
>> In which direction is the synchronization between the two repos working.
>>
>> svn ---> git
>> svn <--- git
>> svn <---> git (how are conflicts resolved ?)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> Zitat von Justin Deoliveira <jde...@op...>:
>>
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>>
>>> I took the liberty of trying to set up a "canonical" github repository.
>>>
>>>  https://github.com/geotools/**geotools<https://github.com/geotools/geotools>
>>>
>>> The idea is that this would be the repository that developers fork
>>> locally
>>> to do development like we do today. Having a same base repository makes
>>> pushing/pulling changes back and forth quite a bit easier.
>>>
>>> The repo does not contain the entire history. I created it from about
>>> revision 36490, which is shortly before the 2.7.x branch was created.
>>>
>>> In conjunction, i also set up a couple of new hudson jobs to keep the
>>> repo
>>> up to date with the latest from svn:
>>>
>>>  http://hudson.opengeo.org/**hudson/view/geotools/job/**
>>> geotools-2.7.x-github/<http://hudson.opengeo.org/hudson/view/geotools/job/geotools-2.7.x-github/>
>>>  http://hudson.opengeo.org/**hudson/view/geotools/job/**
>>> geotools-trunk-github/<http://hudson.opengeo.org/hudson/view/geotools/job/geotools-trunk-github/>
>>>
>>> Let me know what you think and if this is a useful thing to have.
>>>
>>> -Justin
>>>
>>> --
>>> Justin Deoliveira
>>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>>> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
>>>
>>>
>>
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> Justin Deoliveira
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> Enterprise support for open source geospatial.
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Justin Deoliveira
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Enterprise support for open source geospatial.