Good morning all, Over the past 24 hours Sysadmin has been busy working on transitioning everything from git.kde.org over to invent.kde.org (Gitlab) a process which we have now essentially completed. All repositories with the exception of personal (scratch and clone) repositories have been migrated successfully now. We intend to migrate the remaining personal repositories over the coming week.
You should all be aware of the following: -- Work Branches -- As part of the transition to Gitlab, we have also simultaneously rolled out work branches. These are branches that live within the normal repositories, but do not have notification hooks triggered on them. This means that they will not close bugs, send email or be announced on IRC. As such, they can also be force pushed. Any branch prefixed with the name 'work/' is considered to be a work branch. It is important to note that the server will enforce a maximum number of 100 commits divergence between a work branch and any other normal branch (those not prefixed with work/) in the repository. This is necessary to protect our systems when the work branch is merged to a normal/release branch (which is when the hooks will process all of those commits) We therefore do not recommend work branches for long term work such as GSoC projects or other significant items of work - normal branches should be used for these. All other branches will continue to be subject to normal commit hook processing, and cannot be force pushed. -- Migration Helpers -- To assist with the migration to Gitlab, Sysadmin earlier mentioned a series of helper tools which could be used to clone repositories conveniently from Gitlab as well as migrate existing clones. To set these up, you will need a clone of 'sysadmin/repo-metadata' on your local system, along with Python3 and PyYAML (packaged as python3-yaml on most distributions) installed on your system. Once you have these, add the folder 'git-helpers' in 'sysadmin/repo-metadata' to $PATH and you should be good to go. Please note that 'git kpull' at the moment is only able to perform the initial migration from anongit.kde.org/git.kde.org to invent.kde.org urls. Additional patches to improve this are welcome. -- Conclusion -- Apologies for the disruption this caused - please note that a number of systems that work closely with the Git repositories are in the process of catching up with the transition at the moment. During this time there may be some disruption to them, however we hope that this will all be completed over the coming week. Should anyone have any questions regarding this, please let us know (via sysad...@kde.org) Thanks, Ben Cooksley KDE Sysadmin
