[Users] Wanted: PushComponents

[Roland Haas]

Hello all,

some of the things that we would like in a PushComponents tool (namely 
creating multi-repository diffs and applying them) seem like a natural 
addition to GetComponents to me. Or at least in first step one can 
extend GetComponents by a diff and push option. The advantage would be 
that GetComponents is already around and knows about the repositories 
present in a Cactus tree.

I believe that all our version control system can produce unified diffs, 
which should be mergeable into a single file relatively easily I would 
think (with issues being mostly header lines and relative vs. absolute 
paths). That way there would be a single patch spanning different 
repositories.

>> accepted an uploaded "super-patch", as described above, and ran the
>> automated tests on a fresh checkout with that patch applied.  This could
>> probably be integrated with TRAC.  When finished, the user would get an
>> email with the results and a URL to the web report for those results.
>>  Perhaps this could also add an automatic comment to the corresponding TRAC
>> ticket.  The email would say "OK to apply" if no tests newly failed.  The
>> user could then run PushComponents on the patch file, which performs the
>> commit.  If we wanted to get very fancy eventually, the test system could
>> sign the commit.
This could then be all done (on a local machine) relatively easily via 
something like a shell script.

While what I propose is certainly a bare-bones solution it would have 
the advantage that we do not have to set up a complex system and can 
have users report patches using a tool (GetComponents) that they are 
familiar with.

Yours,
Roland

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