How to create am initial cygwin package git repo?

How to create am initial cygwin package git repo?

[Erwin Waterlander]

Hi,

I want to create git repos for my cygwin packages.
The information on https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html is quite 
brief.
Is there a more elaborate guide?

regards,

-- 
Erwin Waterlander

Re: How to create am initial cygwin package git repo?

[Erwin Waterlander]

Erwin Waterlander schreef op 2020-10-18 12:03:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to create git repos for my cygwin packages.
> The information on https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html is quite 
> brief.
> Is there a more elaborate guide?
> 
> regards,

The text on https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html is unclear. The page 
says that the repo is lazily created on the first push. It should say 
that you first clone it with this command:

  git clone ssh://cygwin@cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/packagename.git

and then do a first push

  git push


regards,

Erwin

Re: How to create am initial cygwin package git repo?

[Achim Gratz]

Erwin Waterlander writes:
> The text on https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html is unclear. The
> page says that the repo is lazily created on the first push. It should
> say that you first clone it with this command:
>
>  git clone ssh://cygwin-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org/git/cygwin-packages/packagename.git
>
> and then do a first push

It shouldn't say that, because it works just as well when doing a git
init locally (or using an existing local repo) and then pushing to the
remote (which you also need to explicitly specify the first time you use
it).  In fact that's the sane way to do it when you already have local
history.

For your packages, please check

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi

and add the necessary BUILD_REQUIRES to make them build on the CI.  It's
recommended to iterate on the playground branch, which you can
force-push to (i.e. you can throw away commits that have not worked out)
and delete if no longer needed after having pushed the cleaned-up
version to the master branch.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: How to create am initial cygwin package git repo?

[Erwin Waterlander]

Achim Gratz schreef op 2020-10-18 14:30:
> Erwin Waterlander writes:
>> The text on https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html is unclear. The
>> page says that the repo is lazily created on the first push. It should
>> say that you first clone it with this command:
>> 
>>  git clone 
>> ssh://cygwin-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org/git/cygwin-packages/packagename.git
>> 
>> and then do a first push
> 
> It shouldn't say that, because it works just as well when doing a git
> init locally (or using an existing local repo) and then pushing to the
> remote (which you also need to explicitly specify the first time you 
> use
> it).  In fact that's the sane way to do it when you already have local
> history.
> 
> For your packages, please check
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi
> 
> and add the necessary BUILD_REQUIRES to make them build on the CI.  
> It's
> recommended to iterate on the playground branch, which you can
> force-push to (i.e. you can throw away commits that have not worked 
> out)
> and delete if no longer needed after having pushed the cleaned-up
> version to the master branch.


Thanks!
This information should be in the Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide.

best regards,

Erwin

Re: How to create am initial cygwin package git repo?

[Jon Turney]

On 18/10/2020 15:31, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> 
> Achim Gratz schreef op 2020-10-18 14:30:
>> Erwin Waterlander writes:
>>> The text on https://cygwin.com/packaging/repos.html is unclear. The
>>> page says that the repo is lazily created on the first push. It should
>>> say that you first clone it with this command:
>>>
>>>  git clone 
>>> ssh://cygwin-rDBXBDvO6BXQT0dZR+AlfA-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org/git/cygwin-packages/packagename.git 
>>>
>>> and then do a first push

Yes, a bit of a surprise to me, and not intended, but it seems that the 
repo gets created on the first pull by a maintainer, as well.

But this just gives you an empty repo, which you can just as easily 
create locally with 'git init' :)

>> It shouldn't say that, because it works just as well when doing a git
>> init locally (or using an existing local repo) and then pushing to the
>> remote (which you also need to explicitly specify the first time you use
>> it).  In fact that's the sane way to do it when you already have local
>> history.

I did have an idea to write something to grovel over the cygwin time 
machine history for a specific source package and create a repository 
from that, but it didn't seem really worth the effort.

>> For your packages, please check
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi
>>
>> and add the necessary BUILD_REQUIRES to make them build on the CI. It's
>> recommended to iterate on the playground branch, which you can
>> force-push to (i.e. you can throw away commits that have not worked out)
>> and delete if no longer needed after having pushed the cleaned-up
>> version to the master branch.
> 
> Thanks!
> This information should be in the Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide.

Yeah, a patch to that would be ideal :)