[Nut-upsdev] Alioth Subversion repository freeze - open for business

[Charles Lepple]

Thank you for your patience while we migrated the NUT repository to Git.

We have a "networkupstools" organization set up on Github, and the main Git repository is hosted there:

   https://github.com/networkupstools/nut

Feel free to fork, submit pull requests, and file issues there. If you had SVN commit access at Alioth, email me (or Arnaud) your Github user ID, and we'll add you to the organization.

$ git clone git://github.com/networkupstools/nut.git

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The Alioth site will function as a backup:

   https://alioth.debian.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=30602

(All of the existing issue trackers are still active at Alioth.)

If you want to see just about every single branch and tag that we ever had in CVS or SVN, here is the entire output of reposurgeon:

   https://github.com/networkupstools/nut-archive

I will also keep the old Trac instance up for a while, for cross-referencing SVN revisions:

   http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/timeline

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The NUT documentation still needs to be updated to reflect the new repository and development methods. Please email nut-upsdev if you have specific changes to suggest (bonus points if you have a ready-to-apply patch).

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I also need to update the NUT Buildbot configuration to pull from Git. If you maintain a buildslave, please check to ensure that the Git package for your OS is installed.

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If you forked my experimental Github tree (based on git-svn) originally located at https://github.com/clepple/nut, note that it has been renamed to https://github.com/clepple/nut-git-svn .

Be aware that the reposurgeon conversion improved a lot of the old commit messages, and as such, branches derived from the git-svn conversion (including pretty much anything currently in https://github.com/balooloo/nut ) will need to be rebased before they are merged back into the main NUT repository. Details will vary. Email me on nut-upsdev and I'll explain.

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None of this would have been possible without the tenacity of ESR while upgrading reposurgeon to better handle Subversion repositories (especially tough cases like ours, which had some interesting corner cases due to its roots in a cvs2svn conversion). In the end, his repodiffer tool gave us the warm fuzzy feeling that everything had been properly converted, and it even pointed out some bugs in git-svn, as well as the SVN documentation itself.

The main reposurgeon web site is:

   http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/

The fork of reposurgeon that we used (only a few commits beyond v2.20) is:

   https://gitorious.org/~clepple/reposurgeon/clepple-reposurgeon (nut-extras branch)

The metadata used to refine the CVS/SVN commit messages and the Git revision topology:

   https://gitorious.org/~clepple/reposurgeon/clepple-nut-conversion (nut-extras branch)

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Charles Lepple
clepple at gmail