Addition of a Git repository, gecko-dev, to mozreview

[chu...@mozilla.com]

Hello,

I was wondering if it would be possible to set up a git repo in the mozreview instance, shadowing the "official" github repo https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev

I don't know much about configuring ReviewBoard, but since all of our process is patch-based, I wonder if it'd just be a matter of adding the repo to mozreview and submitting appropriately-formatted patches.

Chris

[Mark Côté]

We can do that, but we wouldn't get all the niceties of MozReview, which
are tied to having commits in the review repo. A better fix (if I
understand your problem) is to allow pushing from git to MozReview. gps
is working on that right now, via git-cinnabar (so the back end will be
hg, but you can use the git client).

Mark

[Gregory Szorc]

As Mark said, we'll be supporting git-cinnabar for initiating code review for Firefox.

I hope to find time to stand up a Mercurial repo with full CVS history sometime in the next few months and I'll find a way to shoehorn it to work with MozReview and Autoland. Once that is in place, the gecko-dev Git repo arguably doesn't need to exist for developers. Instead, people will use a git-cinnabar conversion of the full and unified Mercurial repo.

Chris

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[Chris H-C]

Before we do that, we should probably ensure that git-cinnabar works within the mozilla build tools shell (which it currently doesn't. I posit this is due to the python virtualenv)

At the moment on windows I have to build in a mozbuild shell and try to do everything else in msys2. git-cinnabar probably ought to have more fit and finish before we can replace existing solutions.