pushing patches to an imap folder

Hi,

I hacked up git-format-patch and isync to create a program to push patches from git into an imap folder. This improve my workflow with git quite a bit.

It's pretty Wine specific at the moment, but I'd be happy to try and create a patch for git if I had a little advice on where to store the configuration... an imap server (host/port/name/pass or ssh command) with a mail header/template thrown in.

http://mandoo.dyndns.org/mm-send-patch-0.1.tar.gz

Comments and flames welcome :)

Mike

Hmph. How well does the rest of git help your workflow, working with the Wine community? Especially, how are you keeping track of and interoperating with their main CVS repository? Do you have to do anything special when your patches are accepted by the upstream and echoed back to you when you 'cvs update' from them next time?

We have a (semi-experimental) wine.git tree, which is updated at the same time as the Wine CVS, by the project maintainer:

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git

It will probably be maintained in parallel with the Wine CVS for a while, unless somebody writes a GIT->CVS gateway.

I find git-rebase to be particularly useful. When I used CVS, sending a series of patches was a pain. I'd contemplated using quilt, but never got round to trying it.

Pushing patches from git into a drafts folder means I don't have to manually generate a diff, open a mail, type the mailing list address, attach the patch and write/copy-paste a ChangeLog entry.

"git pull" is usually sufficient.

Mike

Hi,

This is cool! I used to track wine with "git-cvsimport -i".

My work flow was like this (not with wine, since I did not have enough time to hack on it in the last months, but with other CVS managed projects):

"git-cvsimport -i" every once in a while, followed by "git pull . origin" (my working branch is always master).

When I have something interesting, I make a topic branch from origin ("git checkout -b eyes_apple origin"), and pick the interesting commits from master ("git cherry-pick SHA1").

Sometimes I pick multiple commits with the "-n" flag, so that I can hide my shortcomings, committing with the message of the first commit ("git commit -C SHA1").

Then, I use git-format-patch to generate the patches, which I hand-edit to make sure there is no typo, and no unwanted changes slipped in. Then, I send the message(s).

It would be cool to have something like git-cvs-daemon, which simulates a CVS server.

Ciao,
Dscho

read-only would not be that difficult. You'd have to cache CVS version numbers for individual files and decide on a branch ordering, but those are basically non-problems.

Don't even *think* about committing.

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The missing 'git-cvsexport' command should be the missing part for the gateway. I am not hacking on it right now, but Kevin seemed to be getting started in that direction. If not, I'll probably hack something together eventually.

I don't have any project currently migrating to GIT... yet ;-)

martin

Wow. How is the acceptance by wine community? Favorable, I hope.

It would be nice before 1.0 happens to have a list of publicly visible projects and people who use git as part of the workflow; the degree would vary per project, from using it as the primary repository (the kernel, I guess) to merely accessible with git.

git-cvsexportcommit? I haven't had a chance to use it myself, although I have to interoperate with CVS in some projects. Martin, do you want to do a plug (or brag) here?

It is handy, especially for simple things like rebasing topic branches, when the things are of managable size without using quilt or StGIT. Do you manage binary files?

Yes, I saw that value there. Maybe adding hooks to format-patch so that it can do form-letter-ish things you had to add there without patching might help? I dunno.

wine.git hasn't been announced on any of the wine mailing lists yet. As long as we don't get rid of CVS entirely, I don't think there'll be too many complaints. Hopefully when it's announced, we'll have a few GIT users who can tell people why it's good to use.

git-cvsexportcommit looks nice. I guess Alexandre is using something like that now. I was thinking more ambitiously... something like a git-cvsd. That would be a pretty awesome migration tool :)

No, there's no binary files in the Wine CVS (or symlinks ;).

I'll have a go at integrating my code with format-patch. Hooks for a template would be helpful.

Mike

Hmph. Kinda surprised. You guys do not do icons?

We do, but we have a tool called bin2res that converts them to text and stores them in a comment in the .rc file that they're associated with:

http://cvs.winehq.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/wine/dlls/shell32/shres.rc?rev=1.42&content-type=text/plain

This was done because of trouble with binary files in CVS.