git repositories for cygwin packaging - please test

[Jon Turney]

On 16/11/2020 21:54, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-05-27 16:27, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 04/08/2019 21:08, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> To remedy this lack, using the same ssh key you use for sftp package 
>>> upload, package maintainers can now also push to git repositories, 
>>> like so:
>>
>> Package maintainers may have noticed that the output from pushing to 
>> these git repositories now includes a line like:
>>
>> "remote: scallywag: build nnn queued"
>>
>> This is a *prototype* of a system to automatically build the packages, 
>> where the results appear (some time later) at [1] (URL subject to change)
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi
> 
>> To allow experimentation without messing up the version history 
>> unnecessarily:
>>
>> - All package repositories allow the maintainer(s) to create, push, 
>> rewind and delete a branch named 'playground'.
>>
>> - An additional package repository called 'playground' exists, that 
>> all maintainers can do anything to.
> 
> Could anyone please check and advise if the attached .git/config will 
> allow me to push to the playground repo and later branch for testing, or 
> demo the appropriate .git/config entries or git config commands to do so 
> properly?

To push to the playground repo, I generally just use 'git push 
ssh://cygwin@cygwin.com/git/cygwin-packages/playground.git -f'.

The URLs in that config don't look quite right, since they seem to have 
hostname of just 'cygwin'?

> Is there any way to move tags to a later commit once pushed?
> I have one in wget that can't be deleted or forced because of the hook 
> fallthru.

tags don't have any particular significance, at the moment.

I removed the wget '1.20.3-2' tag for you.

> Finally are there other CI jobs.cgi?params=... other than id, e.g. 
> jobs.cgi?by=Brian+Inglis?

Not at this time.  I agree it would be nice if you could filter by the 
various columns.

The jobs.cgi script script is tiny (see [1]), if you want to make 
improvements.

[1] https://cygwin.com/git/?p=cygwin-apps/scallywag.git;a=blob;f=jobs.cgi