[gdal-dev] sandbox access for non-commiters

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 08/10/11 10:14, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> Il 07/10/2011 22:36, Mateusz Loskot ha scritto:
>> On 06/10/11 22:27, Antonio Valentino wrote:
>>>
>>> Another option is to make available a pre-loaded git repo in compressed
>>> form.
>>> Developers that want to use git should download and uncompress the
>>> pre-loaded repo and re-sync using git-svn for getting last svn commits.
>>
>> It should be possible.
>>
>> Here is package of GDAL repo I maintain using "git svn" to
>> synchronise the Git mirror of GDAL at GitHub:
>>
>> http://mateusz.loskot.net/tmp/gdal/mloskot-github-gdal-20111007.7z
>>
>> You should be able to download, unpack, fetch update since the creation
>> of the package and use it.
>>
>> Note, the repo is created/managed on Windows, so it's configured
>> to use CRLF. If you download/use it on Unix, you will have to do:
>>
>> $ git config core.autocrlf true
>>
>> otherwise, Git will report all files as changed, thus  "needs update".
>>
>> Summary
>>
>> unpack mloskot-github-gdal-20111007.7z
>> $ cd mloskot-github-gdal-20111007
>> $ git config core.autocrlf true
>> $ git svn --authors-file=../gdal-git-authors.txt rebase
>>
>> At this point, the Git repo is up to date with the upstream in SVN trunk.
>>
>> Now, you may want to push it to your remote Git repo at GitHub
> 
> Just for the record, IMHO this final step is not strictly needed.
> Githubbers can simply *fork* the reference repo (yours) using the web
> interface.
> Since from now on we are in the git part of the workflow,
> publishing/sharing a branch in whatever remote repo is just a matter of
> 
> $ git push <repository> <branchename>
> 
> This allow to skip the time expensive operation of pushing the entire
> gdal repo to github.

Yes, you are right.

>> So, either do:
>>
>> git push [protocol]://[login]@github.com/mloskot/gdal.git
>>
>> or add aliased remote [1]:
>>
>> git remote add [alias] [protocol]://[login]@github.com/denisarnaud/soci.git
>>
>> where [alias] is short name of your Git remote,
>> [protocol] is either git or https and [login] is your account at GitHub.
>> Now, you can push your mirror of GDAL trunk to remote Git repo:
>>
>> $ git push [alias]
>>
>> Note, in the mloskot-github-gdal-20111007.7z file I left my update.bat
>> script. This is the script I use to quickly pull changes from GDAL SVN
>> trunk and push it to Git at github. Obviously, don't use this script
>> trying to push to my repo.
>>
>> [1] http://gitref.org/remotes/
>>
>> Best regards,
> 
> Thank yo very much Mateusz, it worked perfectly.


You are welcome.

Best regards,
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