Thu 2008/Aug/21

• People who use git-mirror.gnome.org may have noticed that SVN tags don't get fetched automatically when they get their daily fix of updates with "git fetch" or "git pull" (that is, you run "git tag" and it doesn't list new tags that appeared since you did your original clone). Within your repository, take a look at .git/config:

  [remote "origin"]
  	url = git://git-mirror.gnome.org/git/gtk+
  	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
  	fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*      ### <---- Add this line!

  The first "fetch" line is already in your .git/config and it means, "every time I fetch from the origin, get all the branch heads in the origin's refs/heads and stuff them in the refs/remotes/origin namespace" (i.e. update all the branch heads).

  The second "fetch" line is what you need to add. It means, "every time I fetch from the origin, also get all the tags and stuff them in my own namespace".

  After that, just do "git fetch origin" and all the tags will be downloaded to your repository.

• Mike Wolf has been working madly on rpm2git to make it easier to use. He has made some very cool changes:

  Rpm2git no longer requires you to have an environment suitable for rpmbuild (e.g. specfiles in /usr/src/packages/SPECS, patches in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES). If you have a single directory with a specfile and patches, you can simply run rpm2git on that.

  You don't need to have all the BuildRequires from the specfile, either.

  Perhaps most importantly, you don't need to mess with your $PATH anymore nor install helper scripts. Rpm2git now works out of the box after "make install".

  All of these changes are now merged in the rpm2git repository.

Syndicated 2008-08-21 11:23:00 (Updated 2008-08-21 18:06:09) from Federico Mena-Quintero - Activity Log