[GRASS-dev] Towards SVN - git integration

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Pietro <peter.zamb at gmail.com> wrote:
...
>> perhaps we can simply
>> configure GRASS server that for each commit just sync the git
>> repository.

So, in parallel this is discussed on the OSGeo-board list. I take
liberty to copy this information over to here (from
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2016-August/014489.html):


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 08:07:58AM +0200, Luca Delucchi wrote:
>
>> ok, I don't know if is possible to svn up from a git repository, this
>> could be really cool
>
> It takes a script. I have my own ones for PostGIS/GEOS that do
> SVN to GIT, but no way back. From GIT to SVN I do it manually.
> Both directions are done with git-svn.
>
> I'd love to see an OSGeo wide solution to keep SVN repositories
> in sync with GIT ones, and there's already a ticket about it:
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1654
>
> Comments and more importantly _code_ are welcome :)
>
>> > - I just discovered that we have yet another git option: GitLab at
>> > https://git.osgeo.org/gitlab/ (hard to keep track of all options ha!)
>>
>> yes, I don't know why they are not using the same git repository...
>
> GitLab is running on its own, temporary, machine.
> Gogs runs on the same machine as Trac (and allows using
> the same git repository from both).
>
> That said, I suspect these "modern" systems want to have exclusive
> ownership over git repositories.
>
> What both GitLab and Gogs offer, though, is registering a repository
> as a _mirror_ of another, so you could (for example) create a GitLab
> mirror of the Gogs one, or viceversa. What remain separated are the
> issues and pull requests.
>
> --strk;
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Marku