Git user repositories, and user branches

[André Miranda]

Hi Landry,
Great work, thanks!
I see that you have ordered categories on the repository browser, now it 
makes much more sense.

Cheers,
André Miranda

On 06/17/2016 04:14 PM, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:03:10PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i've managed to fix so-called 'user repositories' on git.xfce.org,
>> developers with an account should now be able to create user
>> repositories again by adding a remote such as:
>>
>> git add remote landry ssh://git@git.xfce.org/users/landry/xfce4-screenshooter
>>
>> The remote URL has to match users/<your username>/<reponame>
>>
>> and then pushing to it, whatever branch:
>>
>> git push landry test-branch
>>
>> -> see the result on
>> http://git.xfce.org/users/landry/xfce4-screenshooter/?h=test-branch
>>
>> User repositories don't trigger a mail to xfce4-commits at xfce.org.
>>
>> An alternative is to push a branch prefixed with <yourname>/foo to the
>> 'main repo' (ie not a user repo) - this is specifically allowed by the
>> git config.
>>
>> Ie
>>
>> git branch -m test-branch landry/test-branch
>> git push origin landry/test-branch
>>
>> and see it on
>> http://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screenshooter/?h=landry/test-branch
>>
>> (this method triggers mails to xfce4-commits at xfce.org)
>>
>> A 'hidden' feature i discovered: if you want to 'share' your user
>> repository to allow another user to push to it, you can do so (if you're
>> the creator of the repository) by doing:
>>
>> ssh git at git.xfce.org perms users/<your username>/<reponame> + WRITERS <another username>
>>
>> Untested yet, but from now on <another username> should be able to push
>> to your repo.
>>
>> Help of the command available at:
>> ssh git at git.xfce.org perms -h
>>
>> I'll try to document that stuff on the wiki...
> Of course, this was *already* documented on
> http://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/git/start and
> http://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/git/userrepos ... need to remove old
> outdated docs from wiki.xfce.org, and point to those.
>
>> If the developers who have user repos on http://git.xfce.org/users/ can
>> walk through them, and list what's merged/not merged/pending and give me
>> a list of obsolete user repos, i'll do some cleanup on the serverside..
> We've just done some testing with ajb, and it's possible for a developer
> to remove his own user repository, with the following steps:
>
> ssh git at git.xfce.org D unlock users/<yourlogin>/<yourrepo>
> ssh git at git.xfce.org D rm users/<yourlogin>/<yourrepo>
>
> and voila, your user repo should be gone from http://git.xfce.org/users/
> (cgit config is refreshed every 15mn..)
>
> Landry
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