14 Sep
2017
14 Sep
'17
5:07 p.m.
I'm wary of opening up pushing to master. If we really want a linear
history, it should be enforced. Accidents with version control happen
all the time (when was the last time the SVN pre-commit hook stopped you
from committing because you forgot to set eol-style?).
I wouldn't mind forcing the use of pull requests, assuming we can set it
up so that merge is allowed with no reviews (those would be recommended,
but enforcing them seems too much).
Though I'm also okay with giving up the linear history idea altogether,
or hosting the repo elsewhere (e.g. we could host a Bitbucket instance).
On 2017-09-14 17:48, David Quintana (gigaherz) wrote:
I vote for recommending devs to use pull requests, and
to make it a
semi-strict policy that devs who push directly to master should ALWAYS make
sure to pull and rebase before pushing.
I myself intend on almost exclusively contribute through pull requests.
This means:
1. I'll push to my own fork, and work backed by the fork
2. When I'm done doing something, I will use the pull request feature,
rather than "git push upstream/master"
3. If the changes are non-trivial, I'll ask for a second opinion from
some other developer
4. I'll push "merge with rebase" myself, but only when I feel the
changes are "sufficiently approved"
I would vote for using such a workflow as a primary way of contributing,
since it avoids all sorts of issues, and has the added benefit of the
automatic "merge with rebase".
On 14 September 2017 at 17:23, Colin Finck <colin(a)reactos.org> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> After playing around with GitHub's features in
> https://github.com/colinfinck/sandbox for the last few days, it turns
> out that its server-side settings hardly prevent repository mess.
>
> Although I have set master to be a "protected branch" and enabled the
> option "Require branches to be up to date before merging", it allows me
> to push just everything that doesn't rewrite history. This includes any
> kind of merge commits, even the nasty automatic merges that occur when
> you commit to your outdated local master and then do the requested "git
> pull" before pushing.
> GitHub Staff confirmed to me that GitHub has no way of enforcing a
> rebase-only workflow. For a self-hosted Git, a simple pre-receive hook
> like https://stackoverflow.com/a/5493549 would do the trick.
>
> The only other option GitHub offers is requiring each commit to go to a
> branch. Changes to master can only happen through an approved Pull
> Request then. This would drastically change our workflow though, and I
> don't think we want this additional burden for every minor change.
>
> Before we now reverse our decision for a GitHub master repo, let's
> verify that a self-hosted Git repo with an enforced rebase-only workflow
> is really what we want:
>
> - It would ensure a linear history in the "master" branch, just like
> WINE has. If you sort by "Commit Date" instead of "Author Date",
the
> history would even be chronological.
> - When contributing changes from a branch back to "master" using "git
> rebase", every single commit is reapplied with a new hash. Except for
> the author dates, these commits have no link to the original branch.
> - Without GitHub as the master repo, we would lose the ability to merge
> Pull Requests directly from the website. That would sooner or later turn
> the entire Pull Request feature of GitHub useless for us.
> Contrary to what people told me, GitHub doesn't detect when you merge
> the Pull Request locally and push these changes back to GitHub.
>
>
> On the other hand, what would an unrestricted GitHub provide us:
>
> - Discussing, improving, and later merging Pull Requests directly on the
> website. Merging, squash merging, and rebase merging is supported. Not
> just for our own branches, but also for forks of the ReactOS repo.
> - Our history graph in the "master" branch will inevitably become a
> stream of parallel lines, making it harder to follow the history
> chronologically. Worst-case example is the Linux kernel:
> http://fs5.directupload.net/images/170914/h5pddxx7.png
> (ok, admittedly gitk renders this graph a bit nicer)
>
> Allowing merges used to be an even bigger problem when we still wanted a
> linear history to replicate SVN revision numbers. But we now replaced
> revision numbers by the output of "git describe". So maybe merge commits
> are ok now?
> At least, we should be able to prevent automatic merge commits by
> instructing every committer to use "git fetch && git rebase
origin"
> instead of "git pull" when syncing with the server. A nicely written and
> illustrated (Tortoise)Git guide on the Wiki should do the job :)
>
>
> I tend to favor the second option right now and allow merges, but I
> definitely need more input on this from you.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Colin
