818635 - Ensure that urls without the ".git" suffix continue to work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Developer Services :: General, task)

Description

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

B2G's source management tool (repo) uses Git URLs that do not have the .git suffix on them.  This is a well known and documented convention that's built into the Git program.

This basically means that the following repository:

http://git.mozilla.org/release/gecko

Should resolve to the same repository as:

http://git.mozilla.org/release/gecko.git

This already works in production on git.mozilla.org, so no change to any production systems is required.  What I'm requesting is that the maintenance documentation for the git systems be updated to reflect that the .git-free URLs be tested when upgrading the Git hosting software.

Comment 1

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

You mean git://git.mozilla.org/release/gecko is the same as git://git.mozilla.org/release/gecko.git and that functionality should remain constant? 

Also, releng does tests before we upgrade. So this might fall under their purview to check, we'll keep this in mind too.

Comment 2

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

(In reply to Shyam Mani [:fox2mike] from comment #1)
> You mean git://git.mozilla.org/release/gecko is the same as
> git://git.mozilla.org/release/gecko.git and that functionality should remain
> constant? 

My understanding is that git:, http: and https: are supported protocols on git.mozilla.org.  Allowing .git-suffix free access is most important on https:, which is what we're currently using with repo.

> Also, releng does tests before we upgrade. So this might fall under their
> purview to check, we'll keep this in mind too.

Shyam, it sounds like there aren't any objections to having .git-suffix free URLs as a supported by Mozilla's Git infrastructure.  Is this correct?

Comment 3

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

(In reply to John Ford [:jhford] from comment #2)

> Shyam, it sounds like there aren't any objections to having .git-suffix free
> URLs as a supported by Mozilla's Git infrastructure.  Is this correct?

I'm unsure. Are you in SFO today? I'm in the boardroom on the 7th floor.

Comment 4

[hwine]

Shyam - John - I believe this has been superseded by bug 818368 (already marked for blocking basecamp)

Should we close this as a dupe?

Comment 5

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

(In reply to Hal Wine [:hwine] from comment #4)
> Shyam - John - I believe this has been superseded by bug 818368 (already
> marked for blocking basecamp)
> 
> Should we close this as a dupe?

Nope, that bug is not the right thing to do.

Comment 6

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

Marking this as INCOMPLETE.  Hal and I did some tests and this is not in fact needed.  Having this support is nice to have but not mandatory.