Bug 1920997 - [RFE] Provide simple way to create personal fork and add remote to repository
Summary: [RFE] Provide simple way to create personal fork and add remote to repository
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedpkg
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ondřej Nosek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-01-27 11:52 UTC by Petr Menšík
Modified: 2021-09-09 17:45 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: fedpkg-1.41-1.fc33
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-09-09 17:45:16 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Petr Menšík 2021-01-27 11:52:35 UTC
Description of problem:
I think current working with pull requests and personal forks is unnecessary complicated. I lack some easy way to create my new fork from dist-git repository and add additional remote. Configuration of additional remote requires multiple steps, which tends to be quite repeated. If I want to work on forks on multiple packages with forks, I should create some scripts.

I think it should be more easy to configure users fork. Maybe also include option to set my fork as git push url. For packages, where I lack commit access, git push would result in denied message anyway. If I could choose to create and push to my fork, it would speed up my contributions.

fedpkg clone --fork-push # example to configure anonymous fetch, but push to my fork

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fedpkg-1.40-1.fc32.noarch

Actual results:
fedpkg clone $PACKAGE
cd $PACKAGE
git remote -v
visit https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/$PACKAGE
click fork
wait until fork is finished
click clone, select fork remote ssh url
git remote add $USER $URL
git fetch $USER
# do some work
git push $USER

Expected results:
fedpkg clone --fork $PACKAGE
# or
cd $PACKAGE
fedpkg fork # not sure about the best name
# just wait

# do some work
git push $USER

Additional info:

Because fedpkg can request branches and repositories, I think it could easily request also forks without web UI involved.

I think it is related to Don't push knowingly broken or work-in-progress work to dist git [1] proposal.

1. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/6ZZ3RPDCVZGWN5EICJV2ZMZBCEJ7R25B/

Comment 1 Lubomír Sedlář 2021-01-27 12:04:13 UTC
This already exists:

fedpkg clone $PACKAGE
cd $PACKAGE
fedpkg fork
git fetch $USER
# do some work
git push $USER

The command is missing from bash completion it seems, but it should work.

Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2021-01-27 15:41:38 UTC
A very useful enhancement to this would be a feature to reset any existing fork I have to match the upstream. For many people using this, they won't be closely following but may end up making PRs to the same package with a year in between.

Comment 3 Petr Menšík 2021-01-28 12:06:33 UTC
(In reply to Matthew Miller from comment #2)
> A very useful enhancement to this would be a feature to reset any existing
> fork I have to match the upstream. For many people using this, they won't be
> closely following but may end up making PRs to the same package with a year
> in between.

Wouldn't just git checkout master; git pull --rebase; git push --force $USER do just this thing exectly?

Comment 4 Petr Menšík 2021-01-28 12:12:30 UTC
I would suggest making a new branch for each proposal. Just before creating PR, do git checkout -b <feature-branch-name>. Then regardless proposal was merged or not, master still does not conflict with recent development, even after 2 years.

Ie do not make PR from fork's master, but have a branch for each PR. It would help, if there was checkbox to delete branch on merge. It is common on gitlab.

Comment 5 Petr Menšík 2021-01-28 12:29:04 UTC
(In reply to Lubomír Sedlář from comment #1)
> This already exists:
> 
> fedpkg clone $PACKAGE
> cd $PACKAGE
> fedpkg fork
> git fetch $USER
> # do some work
> git push $USER
> 
> The command is missing from bash completion it seems, but it should work.

Oh, correct, I have it already. Please fix bash completion, but otherwise feel free to close this bug.
Option to --fork during clone would be helpful to me, but only a minor improvement over already existing fork feature.

Comment 6 Tim Landscheidt 2021-02-03 16:29:15 UTC
(With regard to "git push $USER", if one does always fork and submit pull requests, one can simplify that by adding the Git configuration (for example):

| [url "https://src.fedoraproject.org/forks/scfc/rpms/"]
|         pushInsteadOf = https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/

and optionally:

| [push]
|         default = current

Then one can (after "fedpkg clone -a" and "fedpkg fork") just "git push" and the reply from the Git server will include a link to submit a pull request.)

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2021-08-25 10:26:48 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2021-4b1bb0ee48 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2021-4b1bb0ee48

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2021-08-25 10:30:06 UTC
FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2021-08-25 20:50:53 UTC
FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2021-09-01 12:48:47 UTC
FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2021-09-01 20:21:12 UTC
FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2021-09-09 17:45:16 UTC
FEDORA-2021-20e5f8a6b8 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.


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