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I'm documenting the process of moving Turtle Art to git.sugarlabs.org. Marco has posted instructions here, but of course I didn't have them at hand when I started. So far:

1. I created an account on git.sugarlabs.org by selecting the register link on the home page.

2. I created a new project by selecting the new link on the project page.

There were lots of questions I didn't know the answer to, such as what tags I should be using, but you can answer most of them after the fact... I did screw up (at least) one thing: I hadn't noted that the project name needs to be all lowercase... but it was easy to change.

3. I am not sure how to push my project.

Morgs pointed out that if you go to http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/turtleart/repos/mainline it tells you a "push" URL.

git remote add origin gitorious@git.sugarlabs.org:turtleart/mainline.git
# to push the master branch to the origin remote we added above:
git push origin master 
# after that you can just do:
git push

4. I finally looked at Marco's instructions and so I added the pootle user as a committer.

5. Where should I put the .xo bundle? And the source tarball?

there is a script for generating and posting changes that covers all of these details.

I had a bit of trouble pushing a new change to gitorious today. I had to use the --force flag for some reason. We suspect it may have something to do with the fact that one of the files I pushed is a binary file. Will report back what I find. (Seems to work fine when there are no binary files to add/push.)

git push -fv

I have been trying to use release.py with no luck so far either. (It has a dependency on the feedparser python library, which is easy enough to install.) It complained about a mismatched tag, so I used the --version flag to force the same version number as in my activity.info file. Then I got this error:

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "../release.py", line 325, in <module>
   main()
 File "../release.py", line 314, in main
   release.tag()
 File "../release.py", line 170, in tag
   subprocess.check_call(['git', 'commit', '-a', '-m' , '%s' % message])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 462, in check_call
   raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['git', 'commit', '-a', '-m', 'Release 26']' returned non-zero exit status 1

Is this because I did the git commit and git push by hand before running release.py?

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Use

git-pull

to periodically pull pootle updates to the project .po files (every Friday?)

Also, run

python setup.py fix_manifest

to update the .mo files after updating the .po files

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alsroot taught me about another git feature: tags

git tag -m "Release 36" v36 HEAD
git push --tags

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bertf explained to me that git-pull does a combination of fetch and merge, so to merge a patch...

git pull git://git.sugarlabs.org/infoslicer/alsroots-clone.git master

A few notes re moving to the Sugar Labs infrastructure:

• use git init to create a new project

• source packages now go in

shell.sugarlabs.org:/upload/sources/sucrose/fructose/

download.sugarlabs.org:/var/www-sugarlabs/download/sources/sucrose/fructose/

• don't forget to update addons as well!!

• and to copy the tar file to download.sugarlabs.org

download.sugarlabs.org:/download/sources/honey/...
download.sugarlabs.org:/download/sources/sucrose/fructose/...