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Infrastructure/VersionControl
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Version Control
Who's working on this
- ToshioKuratomi abadger1999 toshio@fedoraproject.org Bazaar; possibly Mercurial
- Paulo Santos paulobanon
- John Kraal geonetix
- WarrenTogami warren
- Mike Mcgrath mmcgrath Subversion
- JesseKeating f13 Mercurial
- Kristian Hoegsberg (git)
- JeffOllie (git)
Current System
Rough guide to how the current system works
Requirements
- Unix accounts or certificate based authentication
- Access Control Lists of per-package per-branch granularity
- Ideally this means per-directory ACL's
- ACLs will allow view and commit access to select contributors.
- Embargo branches should be on the same server as the normal branches. This is necessary to allow certain upstream developers to work in cooperation with Fedora maintainers.
- We need to scale up to hundreds of branches per package in the long run.
- Some package/branches would be read-only to most users.
- Other package/branches need to be completely hidden from most users.
- E-mail notification when changes occur. These notifications must be sent from the server, and it must be not possible for users to bypass.
- Distributed SCM allows easy sub-collections of the distribution to be built and tested independently, then the bulk be easily merged back while minimizing effort.
- Translations for core packages are right now implemented via cvs.fedora.redhat.com and tied to CVS. More longterm they might also benefit from a more modern version control system.
Highly Desirable Abilities:
- Ability to check out only a portion of the tree in order to work on only a package, instead of the entire tree.
3rd party Resources and Opinions
Version Control System Comparison - covers just about everything except git and bzr now covers everything
Quick Reference Guide to Free Software Decentralized Revision Control Systems
OpenSolaris comparison of Git, Mercurial and Bazaar-NG (at version 0.7)
Supplements the previous, well documented comparison with Performance enhancements from bzr 0.8 => 0.9.
Something that Ubuntu is thinking about
- [6] http://live.gnome.org/DistributedSCM GNOME comparison
- [7] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Infrastructure/git/UIFlaws
Xorg is maintaining a rough wishlist of what would they like to see changed in git.
