Git For Garage
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Overview
The purpose of this page is to describe details of the "Git for garage" projects that is being kicked off at the beginning of December, 2008.
Background
Garage have been a successful hosting environment for maemo projects since 2006. The tool that powers garage is GForge with some modifications done by the maemo team. Software projects coming to garage can only use one source code revision control system, that is subversion, aka svn. Ever since the Linux kernel is maintained by git we had been asked to offer git for garage projects as well. The time has finally came and we are now developing the changes.
The GForge team has developed a git plugin which provides the functionality we are trying to achieve, but their plugin is meant for the Advanced Server edition of GForge. GForge AS is not in line (both code- and license wise) with the open source version we have at garage. Therefore we decided to write a free plugin for garage, which could be used by on any GForge 4.5.20+ installations.
Plans
The full git offering for maemo projects will come in 3 phases.
In the first phase we will offer git for the new garage projects. These projects may choose git as their VCS. They will get a repository on a maemo server (the name will be probably git.maemo.org) which they can start using immediately. Project members will automatically get commit access, while non-members will be able to pull code using [standard git tools].
The software and documentation will be hosted as ggit on garage.
Acronyms
| Acronym | Meaning |
|---|---|
| GForge AS | GForge Advanced Server Edition [1] |
| VCS | Version Control System |