Re: How to switch to DEP14 automatically for > 1000 existing repositories
Le vendredi 11 septembre 2020, Paolo Greppi <paolo.greppi@libpf.com> a écrit :
> Hi Andreas,
>
> Il 11/09/20 12:16, Andreas Tille ha scritto:
>> Hi,
Hello,
>> in teams where I have lots of packages (summing up to more than 1000)
>> I've touched) we followed the gbp default and have branches
>>
>> master
>> upstream
>> pristine-tar
>>
>> and this is also the layout fixed in those team policies. I admit I
>> don't have strong feelings about branch names but I'm willing to
>> normalize to some common standard which seems to be the now accepted
>> DEP14. However, its not acceptable to change this manually. As far as
>> to my experience it is hard to rename a default branch - at least I did
>> this in those rare cases when I had to rename a default branch by using
>> the Salsa web interface.
>>
>> My guess is that the Salsa API provides means to script everything. Is
>> there any existing script that supports this or is there any volunteer
>> to write it. I would start migrating Debian Med, Debian Science and
>> R packaging team repositories once gbp also switched to DEP14.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Andreas.
>
> I would use a Python library as client to the Gitlab API on salsa.
> We have this one already packaged in Debian:
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-gitlab
>
> Disclaimer: I have already used this library for a different purpose:
> https://salsa.debian.org/paolog/bts2salsa
>
> I am interested in working on this for the _javascript_ team,
> but of course only if the team agrees to this bulk change.
You can take a look at GitLabracadabra:
https://gitlab.com/gitlabracadabra/gitlabracadabra
Based on python-gitlab, it can change default branch:
https://gitlab.com/gitlabracadabra/gitlabracadabra/-/blob/master/doc/project.md#default-branch
And create branches:
https://gitlab.com/gitlabracadabra/gitlabracadabra/-/blob/master/doc/project.md#branches
Cheers
Mathieu
> Paolo
>
>
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Mathieu
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