[Nix-dev] Re: Hydra, nix-prefetch-git, and TopGit

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Nicolas,

Nicolas Pierron <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> writes:

> 2011/3/9 Ludovic Courtès <ludo at gnu.org>:
>> I thought we could make ‘nix-prefetch-git’ (the script Hydra uses to
>> clone repositories) somehow fetch the TopGit branches automatically when
>> it sees ‘refs/top-bases’, but I don’t know exactly how to make it so,
>> nor whether it would even work.
>
> nix-prefect-git only download&checkout one commit at a specific
> refs/sha1 when this is possible.  What you seems to want is to
> automatically build all branches matching refs/top-bases/* with Hydra.
> What you can do is use "git ls-remote" to list all branches you are
> interested in, and then add job in hydra for each of the references
> returned.
>
>     git init;
>     git remote add origin $url;
>     git ls-remote origin 'refs/top-bases/*';

I’m thinking of changing ‘nix-prefect-git’ like this:

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What do you think?

TopGit would have to be installed on Hydra.

Thanks,
Ludo’.