[fpc-devel] FreePascal Git Repo and 2_6 branch

[Frank Church]

On 28 April 2012 18:57, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:

> In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > To do it the "correct way", is a lot of work, hence the reason I
> > stopped mirroring the fixes branches. What I mean by "correct way", is
> > cherry-picking the commits from Trunk (master) and applying them in
> > the fixes branch - thus it is one standard git repository (with
> > alternate branches), is more efficient for git to work with, and uses
> > less disk space.  But the problem is, it can't be automated (I need to
> > manually track what commits are merged by FPC developers, manually fix
> > conflicts etc) and my free time is very limited.
>
> I can try to create some form of automated feed of fixes tree commits +
> items that are merged.
>
> So assume fixes branch rev X merges revision T1,T2,T3 from trunk.
>
> You then roughly would do
>
>  for X in all fixes revs to process since last processing do
>   begin
>     svn diff fixes branch X-1,X > temp.patch
>     cherry pick from git trunk to git fixes revs  (e.g. T1 T2 T3)
>     git revert all changes to files but not mergeinfo (resolves all
> conflicts)
>     patch -p0 < temp.patch    ( applies the manually merged fixes)
>     git push/commit whatever
>   end;
>
> An innerloop for T1,T2,T3 separately is unfortunately not possible (since
> manual fixes up might apply to all revs at once)
>
> I'm not saying that I will have such info next week, but if you could test
> if you could get such scenario done with GIT, I can see if I drag such info
> out of the mergelog package in time.  (which I'm still expanding)
>
> I doubt it is the same as truly working through GIT (I'm not sure if
> tracking of line changesets works even if you could all T<x> individually),
> it might be already better since it is automated and has GIT level info per
> fixes rev what revs were merged from trunk.
>
> It assumes GIT can deal with mergeinfo a bit creatively and flexible
> though.
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How about SubGit - http://subgit.com ?

I am always on the lookout for the next miracle cure :)

Disclaimer: sender of this email knows next to nothing about git and svn
interoperability issues.




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Frank Church

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