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Introduction
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The OBS (Open Build Service) was created at a time when VCS field was still
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evolving. One of the main issues not handled at the time was handling of large
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files. Large files are at the core of package sources -- think, upstream
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sources.
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Today, this has changed. Git is the most popular and widely used VCS in history.
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Entire businesses are build around providing services for Git. Git has also
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ability to deal with large files via Git LFS subsystem.
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Here, we'll detail how Git and Git LFS can be leveraged to provide a superior
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contributor environment while increasing flexibility and transparency and
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tracability in OBS project management.
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Overview of current project
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OBS is used to build projects. It doesn't build package or images, but it *only* builds
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projects. And while package management is exposed directly, project management is
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hidden behind APIs, legacy workflows and a monolithic codebase.
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The goal of this project is to move *project* management to Git and facilitate
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*project* workflow via external, adaptable helpers. As a consequence, OBS will
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be used to build any project, in Git or in legacy VCS internal to OBS. But
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Git-based projects will no longer be curtailed by internal OBS machinery and can
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adapt any project specific workflow in a modular fashion, without the need to
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change OBS sources.
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The goal is to move current workflows for openSUSE:Factory, as well as SLFO,
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out of OBS and into Git. OBS will still be used to build such projects, but
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everything else, from approvals to maintainer definitions, to project configs,
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must be moved to Git. Doing so will not only simplify workflows for package
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maintainers but also will inject transparency in project history and secure our
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infrastructure with modern cryptography.
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How Git works
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Git contains only 4 basic objects:
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* blob -- file data
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* tree -- directory listing, contains other trees or blob or commit, or
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commits (aka, submodules)
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* commit -- this contains parent commit information, tree objects, forming
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unchangable, sealed history backed by a cryptographic hash function (kind of like a
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Bitcoin blockchain)
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* tags -- additional labels associated with commits
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A good way of thinking about Git is not as a VCS, but as a multi-version file
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system, where each revision is sealed by the new revisions.
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Each of the objects is represented internally as part of another object via SHA256. Therefore, integrity of Git, along with entire evolution of the sources, is backed by SHA256.
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In contrast, integrity function used by OBS is MD5.
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Workflow of Git Projects
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OBS connects package with project. A commit to a package, updates the projects
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where the instance of the package resides.
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Git does not contain notion of projects and packages. It simply manages source
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trees. The work associated with managing a project and its packages is now done
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externally.
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The basic structure of a Git managed project is below. The package repository
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contains package sources, while project repository contains all the information
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associated with the project, including pointers (aka, git submodules) of all the package sources.
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An update in package must be represented as an update to the project. This can
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happen in two ways. Either direct using `prjgit-updater`, which updates the
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project git directly on pushes,
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or indirectly via `pr-review` workflow, which updates project git via PR
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workflow,
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In all cases, the project must be updated for the changes to be built. This is
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akin to OBS today, except that the project is an internal state, mostly hidden
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from inspection.
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Centralization of package management
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The proposal is to move all "official" package sources under a `/pool`
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organization. Each "official" project would then have *one* branch assigned to
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help with package updates.
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The branches represent the current state of packages in a given project. Basic
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package updates follow the `pr-review` workflow.
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