GitHub

Reines · 2010-08-01 12:08:11

Anyone that has been following development of FluxBB will know that in May we changed from SVN to Git, and decided to use Gitorious to host our repository. Over the past couple of months it has become obvious that Gitorious has a few drawbacks - the most important of which being uptime. While it's uptime isn't bad, there have been a few occasions when it has been down (including for the past couple of days).

As such we have decided to move to GitHub. GitHub is a very similar idea to Gitorious, however has many more projects (including a lot of big names), and dedicated support staff to ensure there is minimal downtime. GitHub also has some nice features which allow announcements of commits on IRC and various other nice features.

What do these changes mean to you?

Well, if you don't follow development and have never used our Gitorious page or Git repository, nothing at all.

If you have used the Gitorious page but not the Git repository, you simply have a new URL to visit: http://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb

If you have used the Git repository you will need to update it's path. The new URL is:

git://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb.git

If you are a developer (i.e. have write access) the new URL is:

git@github.com:fluxbb/fluxbb.git

If you need write access on GitHub please register an account and let me know.

Franz · 2010-08-01 12:28:13

Reines wrote:

GitHub also has some nice features which allow announcements of commits on IRC and various other nice features.

Does that mean we do this now?

Reines · 2010-08-01 12:29:57

Yes

(1:27:27 PM) fluxbb-git [~fluxbb-gi@sh1-ext.rs.github.com] entered the room.
(1:27:27 PM) fluxbb-git: fluxbb: master Jamie Furness * dfc1c8e (2 files in 2 dirs): Localising the new forum text when adding a new forum, spotted by adaur. #88 - http://bit.ly/atCG11
(1:27:27 PM) fluxbb-git left the room.

SolykZ · 2010-08-01 12:30:44

Wow, that's great! (-:

I was wondering myself... These tools are for source code management, right? So, is it possible to install GitHub (or something else) on our own server, without being dependant of an external structure?

Congrats guys! (-;

Last edited by SolykZ (2010-08-01 12:31:56)

Franz · 2010-08-01 12:32:11

It leaves the channel after every message? Ugh

Reines · 2010-08-01 12:33:29

SolykZ wrote:

I was wondering myself... These tools are for source code management, right? So, is it possible to install GitHub (or something else) on our own server, without being dependant of an external structure?

Gitorious, it is yes. GitHub I'm not sure.

Franz wrote:

It leaves the channel after every message? Ugh

Yeah it's a bit annoying, but it's because the bot just connects to the network, messages then leaves. If it was to stay then GitHub would end up having thousands of connections to different IRC networks open 24/7, which isn't exactly good for them. They'd probably also pretty quickly reach the users per IP limit on popular servers.

Franz · 2010-08-01 12:35:29

Nah, I don't think so. And we mainly use GitHub for its other cool features like repository forking which allow us to involve the community better.

Simply hosting a repository would be possible for us, too.

SolykZ · 2010-08-01 12:36:19

OK, I see. q-:

So, why not install Gitorious here? You'll not be dependant of their uptime anymore, uh? (-; And then add a bridge between FluxBB and Gitorious for unique login, etc.

Franz · 2010-08-01 12:37:38

It's not written in PHP, and we don't need most of the extra stuff written there. And it would be far too much maintenance work

Reines · 2010-08-01 12:37:42

Gitorious also has some bugs with their caching, and just generally not as many features as GitHub. Also GitHub has the "social" features which Franz mentioned.

Franz · 2010-08-01 12:38:30

Reines wrote:

Also GitHub has the "social" features which Franz mentioned.

True, though granted, Gitorious has similar things, too, with their merge requests.

SolykZ · 2010-08-01 12:42:22

Oh, okay. q-: I thought that Gitorious was written in PHP. (-:

Because it would have been nice to add a repository here with good prospects in the future, such as automatic update.

For example, admitting that FluxBB 1.4.2 is released tomorrow, only the files that have been modified between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 are transmitted to remote servers which have FluxBB 1.4.1 installed.

...Okay, my mind wanders ahah.

zaher · 2010-08-01 23:18:27

Ohhh not again

Reines · 2010-08-01 23:21:09

zaher wrote:

Ohhh not again

Sorry!

Mpok · 2010-08-02 14:20:21

Reines wrote:

If you have used the Git repository you will need to update it's path.

Would be great if u give us the git command we have to use to perform the change.
(ok, i can read the man, but... )

Reines · 2010-08-02 14:25:07

If your using the command line:

I think this should work, but I haven't tried it:

git remote set-url origin git://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb.git

If not, this should work:

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb.git

Mpok · 2010-08-02 22:35:52

Thks Reines.
Second way seems working.
Got some errors tho, when trying a 'git pull'..
Smthg about branch names, gonna check my local config in a while (currently on vacancy.. )

ego008 · 2010-08-03 10:02:50

good work !

zaher · 2010-08-08 11:28:54

This work for me

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb.git
git pull origin master

Last edited by zaher (2010-08-08 11:29:56)

Mpok · 2010-08-10 20:16:45

what is the command if i want to pull ONLY the 1.4.2 version ?
(meaning i don't want the changes occured in master AFTER the release of 1.4.2).

Reines · 2010-08-10 22:18:04

pull them all then just checkout the fluxbb-1.4.2 tag.

git pull
git checkout fluxbb-1.4.2

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