Specifically, if this fancy method is the "recommended" way to set up a WebKit git repository, I would be very interested in adding it to the official webkit.org checkout instructions and/or creating a script to automate the process, and certainly updating update-webkit to do the right thing: http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebKitTools/Scripts/update-webkit#L127 (like maybe add a git fetch in there? before or after the git svn rebase?)
update-webkit is used by all the bots, including the ews-bots which use git repositories. -eric On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:36 PM, David Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > Added by dimich, but it is a tip from Albert and I think how most chromium > enlistments for git are setup iirc). > > dave > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Eric Seidel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There is this section of the WebKit Git wiki ( >> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/UsingGitWithWebKit): >> >> If you don't fetch new revisions from Subversion very often and find >> fetching them one by one too slow, you can modify the svn section in your >> .git/config file to point directly to the *refs/remotes/origin/master* rather >> then*refs/remotes/trunk* which is how it is set up by default. In this >> case 'git svn fetch' will be way faster if done after "git fetch" or "git >> pull", since it'll realize it already has all the revisions locally. Edit >> your svn entry to look like this: >> >> [svn-remote "svn"] >> url = http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit >> fetch = trunk:refs/remotes/origin/master >> >> and then re-build the svn index by doing 'git svn fetch' once. >> >> >> It's some magical setup by which your git svn fetchs will be much faser. >> But I've heard it's buggy? Can lead to local repository corruption? >> >> Can someone set me straight? >> >> The current git svn fetch is *super* slow. Especially if you're behind by >> more than a day or two. >> >> If there was a way to make this faster method safe, by wrapping it in some >> other (error-checking) command which knew how to fall back to git svn >> rebase, etc. when necessary I would love to make it the default method for >> all WebKit get users. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -eric >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> >> >
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