[openib-general] Initial Plan for userspace git trees

[Hal Rosenstock]

I'm forwarding this email on behalf of Sasha. For some reason, he is
having trouble posting to openib-general. He tried posting this
yesterday and again today but to no avail.

As an update on this, the svn repository on the new OFA server was
sync'd last night so the userspace git trees are being updated from
this.

The cutover to the new server will be trialed next Monday so we should
be over on the new server for this sometime early next week.

Email lists, etc. are still on the old server.

-- Hal

-----Forwarded Message-----

From: Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak at voltaire.com>
To: Arlin Davis <ardavis at ichips.intel.com>, James Lentini <jlentini at netapp.com>, Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>, Vladimir Sokolovsky <vlad at mellanox.co.il>, Christoph Raisch <raisch at de.ibm.com>, Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen at de.ibm.com>, Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>, Robert Walsh <rjwalsh at pathscale.com>, Eitan Zahavi <eitan at mellanox.co.il>, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>, Ishai Rabinovitz <ishai at mellanox.co.il>, Tziporet Koren <tziporet at mellanox.co.il>
Cc: openib-general at openib.org
Subject: userspace git trees for initial review
Date: 20 Nov 2006 23:37:01 +0200

Hi All,

Due to plans to move OFA userspace sources to git I've prepared first cut
of userspace projects trees converted to git (with git-svnimport). It is
now on the new OFA server staging.openfabrics.org and can be cloned:

  git clone git://staging.openfabrics.org/~sashak/<project-name>

Here is list of converted projects:

  dapl
  examples
  ibutils
  imgen
  ipoibtools
  libehca
  libibcm
  libipathverbs
  librdmacm
  libsdp
  management
  mstflint
  perftest
  srptools
  tvflash
  useraccess-lib

Everything (except ibutils) was converted from gen2/*/src/userspace/.
libibverbs and libmthca are not in the list because it is already
converted by Roland and published on kernel.org.

Also all is viewable via gitweb: http://staging.openfabrics.org/git-try/

Please note that those trees are converted from SVN repository located
on the new OFA server which is slightly outdated against
https://openib.org/svn. SVN repository will be synced this weekend and
then we will be able to finish to git conversion.


Maintainers,

If somebody would like to convert his project by himself, please let me
know. If any help with such conversion is needed please let me know too.

Others, please clone and review your trees ('gitk --all' may be helpful).
In case of any inconsistency please let me know. Especially interesting
part of review is history pruning in terms of branches and tags.
Currently all trees have those branches (heads):

  backport
  backport-to-2.6.11
  backport-to-2.6.9
  ibat
  ipath
  iwarp
  mellanox_fixes
  mvapich-0.9.7
  mvapich2-0.9.2
  ofed_fixes
  openib_candidate
  openib-candidate
  osm-1.8.0-merge
  osm-pre-1.8.0
  roland-merge
  roland-uverbs
  sdp_historic
  shaharf-ibat
  xen-mlx-branch
  zcopy

, and such tags:

  libibverbs-1.0-rc3
  libibverbs-1.0-rc5
  libibverbs-1.0-rc7
  libmthca-1.0-rc3
  libmthca-1.0-rc5
  libmthca-1.0-rc7
  openib-1.0-rc1
  openib-1.0-rc2
  openib-1.0-rc4

, which can be not needed for most userspace projects.

Branches can be removed with 'git branch -D <branch-name>' and tags with
'git tag -d <tag-name>'. After removing 'git prune' will clean up your
repository (remove unreferenced objects). (Don't remove 'master' and
'origin' heads, also I guess most people will want to preserve '1.0' and
'1.1' branches).

If somebody needs help, please let me know.


I think final conversion would be done in follow steps:

1. At Saturday 25/11 SVN repository will be up to date on
   staging.openfabrics.org
2. I will run incremental svn to git import and will publish converted
   git trees at git://staging.openfabrics.org/~sashak/
3. The maintainers will clone and review their trees, will remove not
   needed tags and branches and will prune the repositories
4. The maintainers will publish their trees at staging.openfabrics.org
   (preferably at ~user/scm directories , so this will be accessible as
   git://staging.openfabrics.org/~user/<project-name>)
5. I will place symbolic links to maintainer's trees at /pub/scm , so
   maintainer's trees will be visible via gitweb (and also accessible by
   git as git://staging.openfabrics.org/<project-name>)

Any comments, suggestions, objections?

Sasha