Re: Is dist-git a good place for work?

[Ken Dreyer]

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:24 PM Simo Sorce  wrote:
> Well, a way to allow force pushes would be to have a git hook that
> branches the tree before the force push. (creating a branch named
> something like audit-force-push-<timestamp>)

In Ceph we do this at a slightly different point of time. We use
"rdopkg tag-patches" to save each of the "patches" refs that we've
translated into patch series in dist-git. Each Git tag is the NVR of
the package.

We rebase and force-push our "patches" branches frequently, so a
patches branch is one "history", and dist-git becomes a "history of
histories".

It's critical to have this flexibility + auditability so we can move
fast and still go back and reproduce everything.

- Ken