git for the bleachbit about cleanerml HOT 11 CLOSED

/me agrees.

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Idem. Also easier to track, I occasionally make a pull to my favorite projects just to see what they've been working on.

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Indeed, that is one of the main reasons why I even convert SVN repos to git repos: seeing the whole history and evaluating if I should put my effort on the project or not.

One thing that is bothering me is that I could send some updated (or new) rules for cleanerml, but what I actually want is to have them in bleachbit, with the ultimate goal of having packages in the Debian distribution cleaning as many things as possible.

With the current fragmentation, I don't know where I should contribute things or even if it is worth me contributing things. I care mostly for Unix-like OSes and if the rules have no chance of making it into bleachbit, I may even give up all the hope and fork this thing for my own purposes.

(Obviously, I would not like to have yet another project under my belt, but, hey, so many programs collect garbage and I have really a shortage of space in any system that I use).

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I hear you, and thanks for your patience. The cleanerml repository is an experiment. The success so far is having a fairly diverse group of people submit some cleaners, but so far there is not much evidence of testing and fixing. Whether BleachBit itself is in git, svn, or something else won't change that cleaners must be tested, useful, consistent, stable, and maintainable before they will be distributed with BleachBit. A complimentary plan is making experimental and community-supported cleaners in this repo more accessible from BleachBit through some kind of convenient integration.

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@az0 some code will work, some will not, that's for you to decide at merge time.

Sounds good the live update feature, I would use a index.json in the release folder, put some metadata on the json and fetch that with bleachbit, then compare and download any new cleaners to the .config/bleachbit/cleaners. Basically apt for bleachbit.

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Does someone want to work on an import script? I could use someone with Git experience and someone with time. Right now svn2git fails with error

command failed:
2>&1 git branch --track "0.2.0" "remotes/svn/0.2.0"

The script code is here (ironically? in SVN)
http://sourceforge.net/p/bleachbit/code/HEAD/tree/misc/svn2git.sh

From what I read, it is best practice to split up BleachBit's SVN layout (docs, bonus, and misc) into multiple git repositories.

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Have you tried git-svn? http://viget.com/extend/effectively-using-git-with-subversion

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@nodiscc OK, that worked better

Please check out this repository and let me know if things look OK. Until then do not really use it.
https://github.com/az0/bleachbit

It has most of the SVN data except a few directories (bonus, misc), and there are no branches.

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@az0 looks ok to me:

bsp@q35:~ $ diff -rq bleachbit-git/ bleachbit-svn/
Only in bleachbit-git/: .git
Only in bleachbit-svn/: .svn
Only in bleachbit-svn/: doc

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@nodiscc Good idea.

I recreated the repo with the doc directory, and now I will consider it usable and start pushing code to Github instead of Sourceforge SVN. Feel free to use it https://github.com/az0/bleachbit

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By the way, code (which was in SVN under /misc) related to development of BleachBit but not required for users is in a separate repository https://github.com/az0/bleachbit-misc

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