My "bundle related secret project" was released yesterday by Google as part of the Android open source release event. (I've mentioned it before on-list in the context of a modified "git status" output.) Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them under the Apache License: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git repo is a Python application to bind together Git repositories, something like "git submodule", except it can track a project's branch rather than a specific Git commit. repo is also able to natively import a tarball or zip file and use it to initialize a repository from an upstream source, then apply git based changes on top of that tarball. In other words, repo is (more or less) built to manage an OS distribution, in Git. Gerrit is a web based code review system, forked off the open sourced Rietveld code review system. Gerrit runs on the highly scaleable Google App Engine platform, but probably could be ported to an open-source MySQL or PostgreSQL backend if people really wanted to do that. You can read some more of how Android has applied these tools to its development process here: http://source.android.com/download http://source.android.com/submit-patches/workflow http://source.android.com/download/using-repo Although the current tool documentation is only on the Android site, both the repo and Gerrit tools are not specific to Android and are designed to be applied to any project that wants to use a similar process. repo and Gerrit are actually developed with themselves. You can use repo to fetch repo: curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo >~/bin/repo chomd a+x ~/bin/repo mkdir myrepo cd myrepo repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/manifest.git repo sync The "git status" output I was talking about before is the "repo status" subcommand, e.g.: $ echo '# test' >>repo/repo ; # modify a tracked file $ repo status project repo/ (*** NO BRANCH ***) -m repo -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
