Issues with new testing scripts

[Kambiz Darabi]

On 2016-01-01 09:59 CET, Kambiz Darabi <darabi at m-creations.com> wrote:

> Happy New Year,
>
> On 2015-12-31 16:12 CET, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/31/15 Dec 31 -5:46 AM, Kambiz Darabi wrote:
>>> On 2015-12-29 01:58 CET, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The problem of having clones not get auto-populated seems not worse than
>>>> needing to do a magical incantation when you merge stuff back and forth
>>>> at the cost of garbling your repo.
>>> 
>>> The complete magical incantation reads:
>>> 
>>> git subtree add --prefix=ext/alexandria --squash https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/alexandria/alexandria.git master
>>> 
>>> and to update it to the lastest master, replace 'add' with 'pull'.
>>> 
>>>> The submodules cause annoying quiet failures, but even when the annoying
>>>> quiet failures happen, you don't end up mangling your repo.
>>> 
>>> The problem with submodules is that every single person who checks out
>>> the repo is concerned with it, whereas git subtree has to be performed
>>> only by one single person and for all others it just works without them
>>> even knowing that there is a 'subtree' being used somewhere. 
>>
>> Can you explain that stuff about needing to squash? I read the subtree
>> tutorial and that discussion just seemed like gibberish to me.  Very far
>> from clear.  Maybe it's easier than the discussion made it seem.  As I
>> read it, it seemed to be saying that if you didn't remember to do
>> --squash at the right times you would end up with a repo clogged with
>> duplicate commits.
>>
>> If that's the case...ugh.  But perhaps it was just a bad explanation?
>> Or does your subtree add expression above ensure that the squashing
>> becomes the default?
>
> My command above does contain the '--squash' option. The git-subtree
> author just chose the wrong default: usually, you are not interested in
> seeing each and every commit in the external repo.
>
> But again, if you do the wrong thing, it's just a matter of:
>
> git reset --hard HEAD~2
> git subtree add/pull --squash ...
>
>> If we could figure this out maybe subtrees would be easier.  But if you
>> have to remember to squash every time, forget it....
>
> IMO such commands should be automated with a makefile entry, so you
> wouldn't have to remember the --squash option.

I pushed a branch to my repo which contains the necessary changes:

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/darabi/asdf/tree/ext-subtree

The specification of what to get where and which version is in
ext/dependencies.lisp-expr

and

git checkout ext-subtree
make ext

does the job.


Cheers


Kambiz