Developer repositories

In addition to the official TracRepositories targeted for distributing the code to users, we have several local "devs" repositories for staging the work in progress and preparing the various proposals.

Use a branch in a git repository or a branch or a bookmark in a Mercurial repository as an alternative to a patch, at your convenience.

It's also possible to create such repositories at Github or Bitbucket by cloning the official mirrors, but the extra advantage offered to TracTeam members of using a local repository is to have closer integration with this Trac, browsing the repositories, referring to the commits and seeing them in the timeline.

Mercurial repositories

See the list in ​https://hg.edgewall.org/trac.

Git repositories

We currently have git repositories ready to use for the following people:

cboos jomae jonas osimons psuter rblank rjollos

When they're becoming "active", we make them browsable here:

cboos.git jomae.git psuter.git rjollos.git

In the following instructions, replace $user with your actual user account on edgewall.org.

There are various ways to organize your working repositories, so the following is only an example setup.

Your repository as the origin, the Subversion mirror as mirror

First you need to clone your repository (let's call the local repository $user as well):

$ git clone http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/$user $user
$ cd $user

After the clone, you'll see the following branches:

$ git branch --all
* trunk
  remotes/origin/0.12-stable
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/trunk
  remotes/origin/trunk

Note that the lack of a master branch serves as a reminder that we're not working in a "primary" repository, but only in a mirror of a Subversion repository.

Speaking of which, we need to make it easy to retrieve the changes coming from upstream. For that, we add a remote that we will call mirror:

$ git remote add mirror http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/mirror
$ git fetch mirror

(use that URL directly from e.o, or use one of the github ones)

If you'd like to get tags from the mirror, do like this:

$ git fetch mirror 'refs/remotes/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

We also would like to fetch from this remote instead of the origin for the local branch trunk, so we need to replace origin by mirror:

$ git branch --set-upstream-to=mirror/trunk trunk
Branch trunk set up to track remote branch trunk from mirror.

If you'd like to get a 0.12-stable branch for tracking mirror/0.12-stable, simply do:

$ git branch 0.12-stable mirror/0.12-stable
Branch 0.12-stable set up to track remote branch 0.12-stable from mirror.

Once this is done, for either of these, getting the changes from svn is a simple matter of going back to the branch in question and doing a pull, e.g.

$ git checkout trunk
$ git pull --ff-only

Of course, you should not directly work on such a trunk branch, but rather use it as the base for creating topic branches (IOW, git pull --ff-only should always succeed).

For example:

$ git checkout -b ticketXYZ/short-summary trunk

Whenever you want to publish such a topic branch, you push it to your repository. The push URL must use https, so be sure to do this once:

$ git remote set-url origin --push https://$user@svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/$user

Note that you can add the repositories from other developers in as many remotes as needed, e.g.

$ git remote add cboos http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/cboos
$ git remote add jomae http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/jomae
$ git remote add rjollos http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/rjollos
$ git remote add psuter http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/psuter

This makes it very easy to fetch topic branches from other people and to continue where they left or propose changes.

In the end, a .git/config for such a repository where user=jonas will look like the following:

[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = false
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true
        symlinks = false
        ignorecase = true
        hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly
[remote "origin"]
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        url = http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/jonas
        pushurl = https://jonas@svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/jonas
[branch "trunk"]
        remote = mirror
        merge = refs/heads/trunk
[remote "mirror"]
        url = http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/mirror
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/mirror/*
[branch "0.12-stable"]
        remote = mirror
        merge = refs/heads/0.12-stable
[remote "cboos"]
        url = http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/cboos
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/cboos/*
[remote "jomae"]
        url = http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/jomae
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/jomae/*
[remote "rjollos"]
        url = http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/rjollos
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/rjollos/*
[remote "psuter"]
        url = http://svn.edgewall.org/git/trac/devs/psuter
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/psuter/*

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See also: TracRepositories, TracDev/DevelopmentWorkflow