git access

[Damjan Georgievski]

Anyone using git to access the sources for translation?
If yes, which tree?

I guess I can use https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central but I was
wondering if there's something more applicable for the l10n process?


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damjan

[Eduardo Trápani]

Have you checked "Localizing with Mercurial"?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Localizing_with_Mercurial

Eduardo.

[Ehsan Akhgari]

Currently that mirror is read-only and all changes to Mozilla code are
accepted as hg patches.

Cheers,
Ehsan

[Damjan Georgievski]

Yes
I already pull from the hg mozilla-aurora repo and push to my hg repo.
But mercurial is slow and breaky so I'll switch to the git repo for the
pulling down the original files.

I just wandered if there is a leaner repo, with perhaps just the files
for translation so that I don't download the whole gigabyte repo.




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damjan

[Julen Ruiz Aizpuru]

ar., 2012.eko iraren 18a 22:42(e)an, Damjan Georgievski(e)k idatzi zuen:

I use the mirror at http://hg.mozilla.org.tr/ which only contains the
localization files.

It's not Git but it'll save you GBs in bandwidth.

[Guillermo López]

2012/9/18 Julen Ruiz Aizpuru <jul...@gmail.com>

> ar., 2012.eko iraren 18a 22:42(e)an, Damjan Georgievski(e)k idatzi zuen:
>

> On 18.09.2012 19:59, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone using git to access the sources for translation?
>>>> If yes, which tree?
>>>>

>>>> I guess I can use https://github.com/mozilla/**mozilla-central<https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central>but I was

>>>> wondering if there's something more applicable for the l10n process?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you checked "Localizing with Mercurial"?
>>>

>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/**en-US/docs/Localizing_with_**Mercurial<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Localizing_with_Mercurial>

>>>
>>
>>
>> Yes
>> I already pull from the hg mozilla-aurora repo and push to my hg repo.
>> But mercurial is slow and breaky so I'll switch to the git repo for the
>> pulling down the original files.
>>
>> I just wandered if there is a leaner repo, with perhaps just the files
>> for translation so that I don't download the whole gigabyte repo.
>>
>

> I use the mirror at http://hg.mozilla.org.tr/ which only contains the
> localization files.
>
> It's not Git but it'll save you GBs in bandwidth.

Where did that come from?

The bad thing is that the central repository is not updated, for those
folks that are used to work with the bleeding edge.

Thanks Julen!


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[Axel Hecht]

Hi Damjan,

we don't plan to support git repos for contributions to l10n.

Having one version control system for our localization team (or two with
svn) is barrier enough, expecting folks to negotiate changes between
different version control systems is really hard.

Alternatively, one could think about supporting git for some locales and
hg for others, but that's really challenging for release automation, and
doc and discoverability.

Also, as ehsan notes, the git mirrors are currently just that, you can
consume the repo in git, but not contribute to it.

As of now, I don't see a value in offering git mirrors for l10n
repositories, and there had to be more than sparse demand for it to
start investing in to it, I guess.

Axel

[Axel Hecht]

Forgot to mention, I encourage folks to try out the git mirror for the
en-US strings. git is said to be faster and smaller to pull, I'd love to
hear people report back on that.

Axel