OT: Redmine and GIT

[James Byrne]

If anyone has experience with using Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/)
with GIT for project management then I would appreciate your thoughts on
it. Particularly if you have had precious experience with
Trac/Subversion.

With the growing number of RoR plugins and support projects moving to
GIT from SVN I am considering the advisability of moving our own VCS
from SVN to GIT. However, we use Trac as both a project management and
business documentation tool. While Trac integrates very nicely with SVN
it has been a long time since Trac had a general release upgrade ( I am
familiar with V 0.11.bx ) and GIT integration seems very limited even in
the 0.11 branch.

So, I am considering alternatives to Trac and Redmine appeared on the
horizon.

Comments, please.
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[James Byrne]

I never did get any comments on this question but, in the meantime, we
have successfully converted our project management to redmine from trac.
Today we switched our project SCM from SVN to GiT and linked the local
git repository to redmine.

So far everything works well. We employed mod_rails (a.k.a. passenger)
for the redmine instance on our Apache 2.2 server. No issues with that
set up either. Both the redmine install and the Apache configuration
were trivial to perform compared to what my notes indicate we went
through to set up Trac.

Redmine is a R-o-R application, is Rails 2.0.2 compatible, and is well
worth a look. It supports multiple projects, provides both wiki and
formuns and has a slew of other features that I have yet to explore.

See https://www.redmine.org

[James Byrne]

schof wrote:
> James,
>
> Do you have any links for me on Redmine with git? I have redmine
> (0.6.4) and git but I haven't linked them up. You know if this is
> possible with github?
>

At the moment, and I see no plans to change this, one must link Redmine
to a local filesystem clone of the GiT master repository. Given the
distributed nature of GiT this is no hardship. Keeping the local clone
up-to-date involves nothing more than an entry in the crontab file.

[James Byrne]

I am having a little problem with the form that the GiT repository ended
up in following the conversion from SVN and I wonder if somebody with
more experience with GiT and Subversion than I posses can point out a
way to resolve this.

The setup of the Subversion repository is/was this:

http://svn.harte-lyne.ca//<master-project>/<sub-project>/trunk

The command that I used to convert this to GiT was:

git-svn clone --authors-file=git-svn.users --no-metadata
https://svn.harte-lyne.ca/hll/<project> <target/directory>

Now, when I do a git-clone from the resulting git-repository I see this:

project
`-- trunk
|-- README
|-- Rakefile
|-- _irbrc
|-- app
| |-- controllers
| | |-- application.rb
| | |-- clients_controller.rb
| | |-- entities_controller.rb
| | |-- entity_client_controller.rb
| | |-- locations_controller.rb
| | |-- nav_menus_controller.rb
| | |-- sites_controller.rb
| | `-- val_location_types_controller.rb
| |-- helpers

So, how do I get rid of the trunk intermediate directory, which I infer
is some sort of artifact from my subversion set up?

[James Byrne]

James Byrne wrote:
>
> So, how do I get rid of the trunk intermediate directory, which I infer
> is some sort of artifact from my subversion set up?

Answer:

# Explicitly clone from svn project trunk
# git-svn clone --authors-file=git-svn.users --no-metadata \
https://svn.harte-lyne.ca/<master-project>/<subproject>/trunk
<project>.git_tmp
#
# Now, produce a clean copy without svn references for the GiT master
#
# git-clone --bare /path/to/<ptoject>.git_tmp <project>.git
#
# #Done!