Git with Hudson

Hi

Currently we use Subversion as our VCS. This ties into our CI process that uses Hudson.

I've been using git svn with great success over the last few months and a few our developers have also started using it. We now almost ready to switch our repository from SVN to Git.

However, before we do that I wanted to check if anyone has had any experience/feedback in integrating Git with Hudson CI server?

Thanks

Indy

PS: Apologies if this is posted a couple of times to the list. Gmail  
is refusing to send the email to the mailing list address, so trying  
to send it in a couple of different ways

We tried using the Hudson git plugin that you can download from the Hudson site and ended up with problems--whether we had too many branches or something, the plugin has some funny "figure out what needs to be built" logic that issued near-constant git rev-list commands. To the point where our own "git fetch" calls would get starved for 20-30 seconds.

We eventually wrote our own Hudson git plugin that is simpler and doesn't do any funny rev-listing/walking. It just stores last hash built and rebuilds once that doesn't match the branch tip. Once that was in place, it worked great.

I've got permission to publish it if you're interested--just haven't yet.

- Stephen

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com> wrote:

I'm interested!  Please publish away!

Here's the "git2" Hudson plugin that worked well for us:

http://github.com/stephenh/hudson-git2

There is a git.hpi file checked into the target directory so that you don't have to build it yourself.

- Stephen

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 21:00 -0600, Stephen Haberman wrote:

I decided that I'd check this out, as the existing Git plugin chokes on our git-rev-list(1) on our enormous Git repository.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you actually upload or check in the target/ directory? Your .markdown references target/git.hpi as well, but I can't seem to find it :-/

Cheers

Ack, sorry, just added it.

- Stephen

2008/12/18 Stephen Haberman <stephen@exigencecorp.com>:

Good idea! I'm also affected by this problem, although the git-rev-list is not an issue anymore since version 0.5. Simplifying the checkout() is still in my plans though, so your contribution comes at the right moment. Once the code will be made available we'll be able to take the best of the two Git plugins and merge them into one.

WDYT?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:53 AM, <indy@strakersoftware.com> wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:37 AM, <stephen@exigencecorp.com> wrote:

indy> However, before we do that I wanted to check if anyone has had any indy> experience/feedback in integrating Git with Hudson CI server?

We want to try it in futrure when GIT will be used for some projects. It will be nice to share the knowledge on hudson tool. :)

B.W, what version of hudson you are using? Java version? TOMCAT version?

It is stable? Have you seen something like "(appears to be stuck) entries"...

stephen> We eventually wrote our own Hudson git plugin that is simpler and stephen> doesn't do any funny rev-listing/walking. It just stores last hash stephen> built and rebuilds once that doesn't match the branch tip. Once that stephen> was in place, it worked great.

I am eager to have it..please publish.

-dm