Re: git repositories for cygwin packaging - please test

[Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamishmb@live.co.uk>]

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> 04.08.2019 21:08, Jon Turney wrote:
>> While a number of maintainers keep their cygwin packaging under some
>> sort of version control, there is currently no central collection of
>> these repositories.
>>
>> To remedy this lack, using the same ssh key you use for sftp package
>> upload, package maintainers can now also push to git repositories, like so:
>>
>> git push cygwin@cygwin.com:/git/cygwin-packages/<packagename>
>>
>> where <packagename> is a package name you are listed as a maintainer for
>> in http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint.
>>
>> These repositories are lazily created on the first push.
>>
>> Since it's intended that these repositories will only contain cygport
>> scripts, patches, and other packaging files, and to prevent the
>> accidental committing of upstream archives, pushes containing large
>> binary files will be rejected.
>>
>> These repositories are viewable via gitweb at
>> https://cygwin.com/git-cygwin-packages/ (URL may be subject to change),
>> and should be cloneable via anonymous git/http with the URLs shown there.
>>
>> Please give this a test, if possible, and report any problems here.

Works well for me, thank you. I was just wondering how I was going to
update the cygport and patches, so very useful.

Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty


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