Development using git
Git is now being used for version control of the alpine-baselayout and alpine-conf packages.
Git Clone
To get started, clone the git repository for the package you are interested in:
git clone git://git.alpinelinux.org/alpine-baselayout git clone git://git.alpinelinux.org/alpine-conf
Make your changes.
To prepare a patch:
git diff > short-description-of-change.patch
This diff can be sent to alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org mailing list.
Migrate a subversion repository to git
Start with creating a users.txt file where the svn users are mapped to an email address for git.
echo "ncopa = Natanael Copa <ncopa@example.com>" > users.txt
Create a temp work area.
mkdir proj-tmp
Init the git repository. If your svn repo does not have the standard trunk branches and tags dirs you shouldnt use the --stdlayout. You can also use -T trunk -b branches -t tags.
cd proj-tmp git svn init svn://svn.alpinelinux.org/proj --stdlayout
Connect the users.txt to the empty git repository so users are remapped.
git config svn.authorsfile ../users.txt
Fetch and import the svn repository. This might take some time.
git fetch
Now we can create a bare repository and upload it to dev.alpinelinux.org/gitroot.
cd .. git clone --bare proj-tmp proj.git scp -r proj.git dev.alpinelinux.org:/gitroot
References
Some useful documents
- Quick start if you are used with svn: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
- Recommended reading for git and distributed development: http://cworth.org/hgbook-git/tour/
- The git book: http://book.git-scm.com/
- More what happens behinde the scenes: http://www.newartisans.com/blog/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up.html