[Cruisecontrolrb-users] git + Re: custom build scripts

Nicholas Faiz
2008-08-22T10:28:16Z

Hi,

Just to let you know that I did finally get benburket''s fork to work
with git. It took a little hacking into what he had, and understanding
git + ssh key auth intricacies, but it''s running. If anyone else is
stuck I can share my config..

Regards,
Nicholas


Chad Woolley wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Jeremy Lightsmith
> <jeremy.lightsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> actually, the current version of cruise in development does support
git.  I
>> believe the fork you''re using uses a different strategy for
git support than
>> we do, so there may be some different behavior on corner cases.
>>
>
> The trunk support for git is definitely not ready for prime time.
I''m
> using it to try to get the Rails CI box up again, and it was just hung
> for like a month trying to do a git merge.  Had to manually kill the
> build and command process.
>
> I''ve opened several tickets tagged with git, and put a ticket on
the
> list, no response yet.  There have been several other git-related
> threads too.
>
> Even worse, benburkert''s branch is off the old rubyforge Git repo,
and
> not a "real" fork of the new github repo for ccrb.  I''ve
emailed
> benburkert off-list about maybe having him re-fork off the official
> one, but got no response.  That is bad, because that means his branch
> is essentially frozen at the point he branched and not getting any new
> stuff.
>
> If I remember, Alexey''s original objection to this branch was that
> Grit used native calls, and Alexey preferred to just use the command
> line to be more cross-platform.  So, that is in and sort of working,
> but needs a lot more work, obviously.  It would be great if someone
> stepped up and did that work, and these divergent git forks went away.
>  Unfortunately, I''m not that person...
>
> -- Chad