{"id":239,"date":"2009-05-03T03:39:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T01:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/?p=239"},"modified":"2009-05-03T04:12:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:12:48","slug":"migration-from-gnu-arch-to-git-for-horde-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/migration-from-gnu-arch-to-git-for-horde-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration from GNU Arch to Git for Horde packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Horde packages (horde3, imp4, kronolith2&#8230;) were in GNU Arch repository. After Lenny release, we decided to migrate to Git. Git has a lot cool features, and I was convinced by <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.fosdem.org\/2008\/schedule\/events\/debian_packaging_with_git\">Pierre Habouzit talk about Packaging with Git<\/a>. Technically, I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kernel.org\/pub\/software\/scm\/git\/docs\/git-archimport.html\">git-archimport<\/a> to keep all history of packaging. Each package has a Git repository with some branches: upstream, upstream+patches, upstream+repack (if needed), pristine-tar, debian-sid (imported from GNU Arch) and debian-&lt;release&gt;. The hardest step was to set up a common ancestor for debian-sid and upstream branches: I found <a href=\"http:\/\/wingolog.org\/pub\/git-merge-unrelated-branch\">git-merge-unrelated-branch<\/a> script to do it automagically. I write <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.debian.org\/Horde\/GitUsage\">guidelines for packaging Horde with Git<\/a> on Debian Wiki with some notes about migration from GNU Arch to Git. Comments welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Horde packages (horde3, imp4, kronolith2&#8230;) were in GNU Arch repository. After Lenny release, we decided to migrate to Git. Git has a lot cool features, and I was convinced by Pierre Habouzit talk about Packaging with Git. Technically, I used git-archimport to keep all history of packaging. Each package has a Git repository with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[90,148,88,89,20],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","category-english","tag-arch","tag-debian","tag-git","tag-horde","tag-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcolpart.evolix.net\/blog21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}