[U-Boot-Custodians] git access - move to gitlab?

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 01:35:05PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I guess a few of you will have noticed the recent issues with
> HTTP(S) access to the custodian repositories; recent versions of git
> have introduced changes which are incompatible with the way how
> "alternates" and "http-alternates" have been working for many years.
> 
> For a quick fix, I have now repacked all the repositories and
> removed the alternates / http-alternates files, so cloning over
> HTTP(S) should be working again.
> 
> However, I think this is just a quick fix, and not a long term
> solution.  The git.denx.de server itself is a bit oldish, and the
> gitweb setup running on git.denx.de is old and ugly and limited and
> slow...
> 
> I would like to move all the custodian repos to our gitlab server.
> This is a more powerfull machine, and we would have a number of
> additional options there.  We can still provide "classic" git
> protocol access even under the old URLs.
> 
> Are there any concerns about this?
> 
> When would be a good point in time (in release schedule) for such a
> move?
> 
> Do we have to migrate all repositories at once, or can we have a few
> "early adaptors" who serve as guinea pigs?

The only concern I have is can we rewrite links like
https://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt;h=8592719685eba10f72886e04b0b1ad9f91b3c61e;hb=HEAD
so they get redirected?  There's a lot of stuff like that floating
around that I'd like to have still be valid.  Thanks again!

-- 
Tom
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