[rancid] Rancid and Git

[Max Clark]

Is there movement on an official RANCID release with GIT support?


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:55 PM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:16:37AM -0700, james machado:
> >> there was a message about git and locks back in 2007
> >>
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2007-March/002154.html
> >> that talked about this or something related to this.
> >>
> >> best i can remember from past research on using git and rancid.
> >
> > Thanks for that.
> >
> > ----
> >>       $BASEDIR is the dir into which all groups go. If you put a generic
> >> lockfile here you will make it so multiple groups can't be polled at one
> >> time. Typically a temp dir is used where the file includes the group
> name
> >> so there is no stepping on of toes, and stale lockfiles aren't left in
> >> unexpected places.
> >
> > The locks shouldn't slow down polling, the lock is only held when making
> > commits to the Git repository which shouldn't happen during polling
> > (unless I'm misunderstanding something about the code).  I needed the
> > locks because I need to run a series of git commands atomically or
> > changes from other groups might become part of the wrong commit.
> > ----
> >
> > That seems out of scope to me.  Perhaps i do not yet understand the
> process
> > in git.  how would the commits in one group become part of another
> group's
> > commit?  the commit occurs in the group's directory.
>
> Git is different from CVS or SVN.  In CVS and SVN directories are
> significant in that they are essentially separate repositories.  In
> Git there is only one repository and a "git add" done in one directory
> will be included in a "git commit" done in a different directory.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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