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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Gitlab Evaluation & Migration
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-02-28 4:12:22
Message-ID: 20190228041222.GA18989 () midna
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 03:15:58PM -0700, Nate Graham wrote:
> ---- On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:12:55 -0700 Eike Hein <hein@kde.org> wrote ---- 
> > On 2/27/19 4:38 AM, Nate Graham wrote: 
> > > It's really pretty nice. But  Gitlab has a \
> > > fork-the-repo-and-submit-a-merge-request workflow, so in steps 3 and 4, people \
> > > without commit access won't just be able to start hacking with the source \
> > > checkout that kdesrc-build downloads, or else they won't be able to push their \
> > > branch to any remotes and create a Merge Request. 
> > 
> > No, this is not correct. 
> > 
> > When you have a local git repository (be it your own or a clone), it can  
> > interact with any number of remote git repositories. 
> > 
> > When you do `git clone <something>`, git automatically adds <something>  
> > as a remote named "origin" to the local repository. But what "origin"  
> > points to can be changed at any time, or other remotes with other names  
> > can be added for pushing too. "origin" is just a convention. 
> > 
> > I.e. someone can totally do this: 
> > 1. use kdesrc-build to clone stuff 
> > 2. git checkout -b feature to make a feature branch 
> > 3. hack 
> > 4. make a private fork on gitlab 
> > 5. push to their fork from the clone they've been working in 
> > 
> > It's not necessary to fork first and clone your fork to get started. 
> 
> Thanks Eike, that makes e a lot of sense. Going to the website to fork
> each repo for the first time still adds an additional manual step
> compared to the status quo, so it would be nice if we can get
> kdesrc-build so set up forks automatically. That would be really
> slick.

That would be slick. I wonder if Gitlab exposes an API for that (ideally
something that doesn't involve kdesrc-build having to store your creds)?
Potentially this API
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/projects.html#fork-project (though it's
documented for EE not CE)?

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne


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