[yt-dev] Final github repo

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius.kk at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> I don't know how to do that :) What we are mapping to git branches are
> hg bookmarks, and you can't have bookmark matching named branch:
>
> $ hg bookmark yt-2.x
> abort: a bookmark cannot have the name of an existing branch
>
> Cheers,
> Kacper
>
>
>
I created a pull request that should fix this issue:

https://github.com/yt-project/fido-prhandler/pull/1

In addition this pull request sets the mirror target to the final repo
location, in expectation of getting approval in this thread.


> >
> >>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Kacper
> >>>>
> >>>>> Our mirror bot uses hg-git, and the converted repo hg-git produces
> >> isn't
> >>>>> necessarily perfect. In particular, two issues have come up:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> * Since git is more selective than mercurial about e-mail and
> username
> >>>>> formatting, there are a number of commits associated with dummy
> e-mail
> >>>>> addresses like none at none
> >>>>>
> >>>>> * Since we do most of our development on a branch named "yt" (not
> >>>> "default"
> >>>>> as is typical of mercurial repos) almost every commit in our history
> >> has
> >>>> a
> >>>>> comment in the git commit message recording that it hapenned on the
> >> "yt"
> >>>> or
> >>>>> "stable" branch. This makes it possible to round-trip from hg to git
> >> and
> >>>>> back to hg, but it's also some extra noise in every single commit
> >>>> message.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We could in principle ameliorate these issues by using something
> >> besides
> >>>>> hg-git to do the conversion or by modifying hg-git to avoid these
> >> issues.
> >>>>> The former options will lose the nice property of being able to
> >>>> round-trip
> >>>>> and for others to independently export work from their forks. The
> >> latter
> >>>>> option will require us to modify hg-git and waiting for upstream
> hg-git
> >>>> to
> >>>>> review our changes, which might take a while, or telling everyone to
> >> use
> >>>> a
> >>>>> hacked version of hg-git.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Personally, I don't think either of those options are worth the
> hassle
> >>>> for
> >>>>> what to me are minor annoyances. I think I've also ameliorated the
> >>>>> username/e-mail ambiguity in the converted history by adding a
> .mailmap
> >>>>> file to the repo:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/pull-requests/2582
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In addition, the mirroring process we have now seems to work well, so
> >>>> just
> >>>>> renaming the yt-test repo and calling the conversion final avoids a
> >> bunch
> >>>>> more work which will block further progress on the conversion.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What do you all think? It would be great to get people's +/-1 on
> >> renaming
> >>>>> yt-test to yt on github.com/yt-project.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Once we have a final repo name we will be able to start porting
> tooling
> >>>>> like the website generator without worrying about the name or content
> >> of
> >>>>> the final repo changing.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Nathan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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