493040 - Add Git support to VCS commands

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Version Control, enhancement)

Description

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Bespin's VCS commands currently only support Mercurial (Hg). Among others, it should support Git, too.

Comment 1

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Mass move of all VCS bugs to the new Version Control component.

Comment 2

[Scott Ferguson]

As of last night I have Bespin successfully cloning git repositories.  I'll be getting unit tests built in the next day or two so that I can streamline the remaining basic functionality.

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Assigning to you, Scott, since you're working on this.

For the record, Scott's clone of UVC is here:
https://bitbucket.org/scottferguson/uvc/

Comment 4

[Scott Ferguson]

I just pushed out some minor changes that I've made.  So far I have clone and commit working.  Commit assumes that you're adding the "-a" switch for now, I'm not really sure how we can do that elegantly from the UI standpoint yet.

I'm aiming to have the "push" command working next.  I'm anticipating a bit of a challenge here since git URLs are often a bit less conventional than what I've seen of Mercurial URLs.

Comment 5

[Scott Ferguson]

I've just pushed out some uvc changes to my Bitbucket repo.  These changes include passing test cases for the git commands: clone, commit, diff, update, remove (rm), status, init, and revert.  It also includes a working push command that currently defaults to origin/master as the remote branch to push to.

I'm a bit stumped on how we'll want to handle SSH authentication.  There doesn't seem to be a way to pass an SSH key along the command line with git.

Changes are at: http://bitbucket.org/scottferguson/uvc/

Comment 6

[Scott Ferguson]

These haven't been tested in Bespin yet by the way, only within uvc via the command line.  I believe there will be some URL formatting issues that crop up within Bespin for funky gitosis URLs.

Comment 7

[Scott Ferguson]

I haven't had much movement on the SSH front so I've just commented out what was there from the Mercurial handler for now.  The only major issue I can see is the output that you get when cloning a repo.  UVC just halts on "Initialized and empty repository in ~/some/path", rather than also displaying the checkout status as it pulls down the code.

Comment 8

[Kevin Dangoor]

ACETRANSITION

The Skywriter project has merged with Ajax.org's Ace project (the full server part of which is their Cloud9 IDE project). Background on the change is here:

http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/2011/01/18/mozilla-skywriter-has-been-merged-into-ace/

The bugs in the Skywriter product are not necessarily relevant for Ace and quite a bit of code has changed. For that reason, I'm closing all of these bugs. Problems that you have with Ace should be filed in the Ace issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues