{"thread":{"id":"16012","subject":"[ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","startedAt":"2008-10-22T15:42:45Z","lastAt":"2008-10-23T00:45:03Z","messageCount":10,"participants":["Shawn O. Pearce","Junio C Hamano","Leo Razoumov","David Symonds"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"93697","messageId":"20081022154245.GT14786@spearce.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2008-10-22T15:42:45Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T15:42:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"My \"bundle related secret project\" was released yesterday by Google\nas part of the Android open source release event. (I've mentioned\nit before on-list in the context of a modified \"git status\" output.)\n\nGoogle developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them\nunder the Apache License:\n\n http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git\n http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git\n\n git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git\n git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git\n\nrepo is a Python application to bind together Git repositories,\nsomething like \"git submodule\", except it can track a project's\nbranch rather than a specific Git commit. repo is also able to\nnatively import a tarball or zip file and use it to initialize a\nrepository from an upstream source, then apply git based changes\non top of that tarball. In other words, repo is (more or less)\nbuilt to manage an OS distribution, in Git.\n\nGerrit is a web based code review system, forked off the open\nsourced Rietveld code review system. Gerrit runs on the highly\nscaleable Google App Engine platform, but probably could be ported\nto an open-source MySQL or PostgreSQL backend if people really\nwanted to do that.\n\n\nYou can read some more of how Android has applied these tools to\nits development process here:\n\n http://source.android.com/download\n http://source.android.com/submit-patches/workflow\n http://source.android.com/download/using-repo\n\nAlthough the current tool documentation is only on the Android\nsite, both the repo and Gerrit tools are not specific to Android\nand are designed to be applied to any project that wants to use a\nsimilar process.\n\n\nrepo and Gerrit are actually developed with themselves. You can\nuse repo to fetch repo:\n\n curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo >~/bin/repo\n chomd a+x ~/bin/repo\n\n mkdir myrepo\n cd myrepo\n\n repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/manifest.git\n repo sync\n\n\nThe \"git status\" output I was talking about before is the \"repo\nstatus\" subcommand, e.g.:\n\n $ echo '# test' >>repo/repo ; # modify a tracked file\n $ repo status\n project repo/ (*** NO BRANCH ***)\n -m repo\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"},{"id":"93709","messageId":"7vzlkwtpbq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"20081022154245.GT14786@spearce.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-10-22T19:14:17Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T19:14:17Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Shawn O. Pearce\" writes:\n\n> Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them\n> under the Apache License:\n>\n> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git\n> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git\n>\n> git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git\n> git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git\n\nHeh, very nice, with a very shallow history ;-)\n"},{"id":"93712","messageId":"ee2a733e0810221255u23aabef2i66d878bcbfa11816@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"20081022154245.GT14786@spearce.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"Leo Razoumov","fromEmail":"slonik.az@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-10-22T19:55:22Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T19:55:22Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"slonik.az@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On 10/22/08, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:\n> My \"bundle related secret project\" was released yesterday by Google\n> as part of the Android open source release event. (I've mentioned\n> it before on-list in the context of a modified \"git status\" output.)\n>\n> Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them\n> under the Apache License:\n>\n> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git\n> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git\n>\n> git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git\n> git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git\n>\n> repo is a Python application to bind together Git repositories,\n> something like \"git submodule\", except it can track a project's\n> branch rather than a specific Git commit. repo is also able to\n> natively import a tarball or zip file and use it to initialize a\n> repository from an upstream source, then apply git based changes\n> on top of that tarball. In other words, repo is (more or less)\n> built to manage an OS distribution, in Git.\n> [..snip..]\n\nAre there any plans to make repo an official git command (e.g.\ngit-repo) or merge its functionality with git-submodule?\n\n--Leo--\n"},{"id":"93729","messageId":"20081022211320.GW14786@spearce.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"7vzlkwtpbq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2008-10-22T21:13:20Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T21:13:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> \"Shawn O. Pearce\" writes:\n> \n> > Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them\n> > under the Apache License:\n> >\n> > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git\n> > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git\n> >\n> > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git\n> > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git\n> \n> Heh, very nice, with a very shallow history ;-)\n\nYea, well, some of our history messages are downright messy and/or\ncontain information we don't want to disclose to the public. Its\napparently \"normal\" for Google to just drop history when it opens\na code base. :-\\\n\nThe repo and Gerrit histories are short enough that I might\nbe able to go through them and clean them up some (remove any\ncomments revealing Google secrets) and publish the history under a\ndifferent repository. Folks can always graft it behind the (now)\nreal repository.\n\nI can't promise anything, but I'll talk to my co-contributors and\nconsider doing this in the near future.\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"},{"id":"93731","messageId":"20081022211605.GX14786@spearce.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"ee2a733e0810221255u23aabef2i66d878bcbfa11816@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2008-10-22T21:16:05Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T21:16:05Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Leo Razoumov wrote:\n> On 10/22/08, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:\n> >\n> > Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them\n> > under the Apache License:\n> >\n> > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git\n> > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git\n> >\n> > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git\n> > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git\n> >\n> > repo is a Python application to bind together Git repositories,\n> > something like \"git submodule\",\n> \n> Are there any plans to make repo an official git command (e.g.\n> git-repo) or merge its functionality with git-submodule?\n\nI currently do not plan on asking Junio to consider making repo part\nof git. However, I am also not adverse to it if repo development\nslows down and there is sufficient community interest.\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"},{"id":"93742","messageId":"7vvdvkte4i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"20081022211320.GW14786@spearce.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-10-22T23:16:13Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T23:16:13Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Shawn O. Pearce\" writes:\n\n> Junio C Hamano wrote:\n>> \"Shawn O. Pearce\" writes:\n>> \n>> > Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them\n>> > under the Apache License:\n>> >\n>> > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git\n>> > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git\n>> >\n>> > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git\n>> > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git\n>> \n>> Heh, very nice, with a very shallow history ;-)\n>\n> Yea, well, some of our history messages are downright messy and/or\n> contain information we don't want to disclose to the public. Its\n> apparently \"normal\" for Google to just drop history when it opens\n> a code base. :-\\\n\nYeah, I understand that would be a norm for anybody who wasn't originally\nopen. I was just teasing, not really complaining ;-)\n\nBy the way, are you still in need of a folding bookshelf from Target?\n"},{"id":"93743","messageId":"20081022231756.GY14786@spearce.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"7vvdvkte4i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2008-10-22T23:17:56Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T23:17:56Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> \n> By the way, are you still in need of a folding bookshelf from Target?\n\nIf you saw my wife's book collection, and the space we have, you'd\nunderstand my need for bookshelves... sadly we only have one.\nWhy do you ask?\n\n-- \nShawn.\n"},{"id":"93745","messageId":"7vbpxctcpk.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"20081022231756.GY14786@spearce.org","subject":"[OT] Amazon wishlist (was Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool)","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2008-10-22T23:46:47Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T23:46:47Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"\"Shawn O. Pearce\" writes:\n\n> Junio C Hamano wrote:\n>> \n>> By the way, are you still in need of a folding bookshelf from Target?\n>\n> If you saw my wife's book collection, and the space we have, you'd\n> understand my need for bookshelves... sadly we only have one.\n> Why do you ask?\n\nBecause I stumbled across:\n\n http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=1XF91IZ5VXGTQ\n\nrecalled that you moved recently, thought perhaps it might be a good\nidea to send you a housewarming gift, but was not sure if this list really\nbelonged to the person I thought.\n\nCrazy people claim to be somebody else while wishing for something the\nperson they are disguising as never would. Once I looked for and found a\nLinus Torvalds who wanted a bunch of mysql+php books ;-)\n\nI was on Amazon's wishlist page because recently somebody asked me about\nit, probably after reading http://gitster.livejournal.com/ (where I\nmentioned I recently created one for myself without mentioning its URL --\nthe page has since been updated with one).\n"},{"id":"93746","messageId":"20081022235254.GZ14786@spearce.org","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"7vbpxctcpk.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [OT] Amazon wishlist (was Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool)","fromName":"Shawn O. Pearce","fromEmail":"spearce@spearce.org","sentAt":"2008-10-22T23:52:54Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-22T23:52:54Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"spearce@spearce.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34844?v=4"},"body":"Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> \"Shawn O. Pearce\" writes:\n> > Junio C Hamano wrote:\n> >> \n> >> By the way, are you still in need of a folding bookshelf from Target?\n> >\n> > If you saw my wife's book collection, and the space we have, you'd\n> > understand my need for bookshelves... sadly we only have one.\n> > Why do you ask?\n> \n> Because I stumbled across:\n> \n> http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=1XF91IZ5VXGTQ\n> \n> recalled that you moved recently, thought perhaps it might be a good\n> idea to send you a housewarming gift, but was not sure if this list really\n> belonged to the person I thought.\n\nHeh, that's very kind. Yes, it is actually my list, but I never use\nit so I often forget I put things onto it. I think I actually use\nit as a way to bookmark something I'm looking at on Amazon, and then\nnever wind up going back to because I just didn't get around to it.\n\nLast year my thoughtful wife bought my birthday gift from my Amazon\nwish list. It was a DVD set that I had wanted, but many months\nbefore my birthday I had viewed the entire series through Netflix\nand totally forgot it was on an Amazon wish list. She had no clue\nand wound up purchasing the DVDs for me anyway. :)\n \n> Crazy people claim to be somebody else while wishing for something the\n> person they are disguising as never would. Once I looked for and found a\n> Linus Torvalds who wanted a bunch of mysql+php books ;-)\n\nHah! Amazon is dangerous that way. Looking things up by name.\nEmail is usually slightly more unique...\n \n-- \nShawn.\n"},{"id":"93749","messageId":"ee77f5c20810221745o95da5d7l79fb8be13c9c5e2@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"16012","inReplyTo":"7vvdvkte4i.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org","subject":"Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool","fromName":"David Symonds","fromEmail":"dsymonds@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-10-23T00:45:03Z","receivedAt":"2008-10-23T00:45:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"dsymonds@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/b22f5051cbfc11836e36cf7a690e6cde4e225d835e13295ff98d15c7a9ee3c0f?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:\n\n> By the way, are you still in need of a folding bookshelf from Target?\n\nWeirdest aside *ever* on the Git ML, at least from my memory.\n\n\nDave.\n"}]}