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Re: migrating to GitLab
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Jonas Hahnfeld |
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Re: migrating to GitLab |
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Fri, 08 May 2020 12:30:42 +0200 |
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Am Freitag, den 08.05.2020, 11:03 +0200 schrieb Valentin Villenave:
> On 5/8/20, Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 3) The idea is to have the "main" repository at GitLab, next to the
> > issues and merge requests.
>
> If the two are kept in sync (if and when you enable mirroring), does
> that mean some of us can keep pushing onto Savannah without any
> difference whatsoever?
The mirroring is directional, in our case from GitLab to Savannah, so
no real synchronization.
> (Except perhaps for the few minutes time-lag it’d take for commits to
> propagate.)
This is exactly the problem, for example with conflicting commits in
the two master branches. I don't think we should risk this, the GitLab
documentation explicitly states "Bidirectional mirroring may cause
conflicts".
What we could do is mirror a subset of the dev branches from Savannah
to GitLab. Not sure how this could be used, but this would need a
really compelling reason to warrant the complexity.
> > Ultimately we can talk about cleaning up the Savannah repo and only
> > keeping the "important" branches there.
>
> Counterpoint: unlike GitLab, Savannah 1/ has been around for a long
> time and 2/ relies on a non-profit foundation with lots of volunteers
> (although its resources are obviously stretched thin). This leads me
> to believe (perhaps superstitiously) that Savannah may have a
> marginally better chance of staying around for longer than GitLab;
> thus removing "historical" branches from Savannah may come to bite us
> in the ass in decades to come, in case GitLab goes suddenly bankrupt
> or decides to cease Free-Software support or whatever.
Granted, but how likely is it that a dev branch from 10 years ago will
be of interest in a decade or so?
In any case, we can export the project from gitlab.com to prevent loss
if that is of concern.
Jonas
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- migrating to GitLab, Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/05/08
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Jean-Charles Malahieude, 2020/05/08
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Valentin Villenave, 2020/05/08
- Re: migrating to GitLab,
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- Re: migrating to GitLab, David Kastrup, 2020/05/08
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/05/08
- Re: migrating to GitLab, James Lowe, 2020/05/08
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/05/09
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Carl Sorensen, 2020/05/09
- Re: migrating to GitLab, David Kastrup, 2020/05/09
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Dan Eble, 2020/05/09
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/05/10
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2020/05/10
- Re: migrating to GitLab, Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/05/10