[vtk-developers] Auto install git hooks
Berk Geveci
berk.geveci at kitware.com
Wed Jun 30 14:06:46 EDT 2010
I am joining this argument a bit late so I apologize if I misunderstand.
The solution that Marcus et al. are proposing will have no effect if someone
is building from a source that does not contain a .git directory, correct?
If not, it should be. Those have no interest in developing
VTK/ParaView/ITK/CMake whatever should not clone the git repository.
Instead, they should download a tarball/zip. Keep in mind that
github/gitorious etc. all have the ability of generating an archive of the
repository at any point in time. We should encourage users to use it rather
than clone the git repo (which requires installing git and all). Similarly,
if a developer is to send a user a snapshot, that developer should not
include the .git directory in that snapshot.
My biggest concern is for developers that clone a repo and then take it to a
safe area to build. At that point, they will not have access to network. So
we should have a way to bypass anything that requires network access.
-berk
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at kitware.com> wrote:
> I will continue to respectfully disagree. Not every user has the ability
> to be a developer. Intentionally breaking the build process for exactly
> those people who will never make a checkin and who are most likely to drop
> use of the toolkit when they it gets too complex or they get annoyed seems
> like a bad idea.
>
> That said, I had my say and will follow the madding crowd. :-)
>
> - Wes
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov>wrote:
>
>> If I may, I’ll repeat David’s sentiments a bit more gently.
>>
>> You would get around this problem if you sent to your customer an archive
>> instead of a git url. Instructing your customer (as you describe him/her)
>> to fetch the latest snapshot from the archive is a bad idea all around.
>> First, it adds further complication to the build process (get git and learn
>> it well enough to clone a repo), which you said yourself is already too
>> onerous. Second, it invites the inevitable problem that your customer will
>> get a version of VTK that is different than yours and with something
>> committed that breaks your software.
>>
>> Will this unnecessarily effect someone somewhere? I will concede that it
>> probably will, but it will be a small percentage of all VTK users and,
>> amortized amongst us all, will save much more time than will be lost.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/30/10 8:49 AM, "David Cole" <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> The point here is:
>> - anybody using the VTK git repository should have the hooks installed
>> locally, so that commits they make have a snowball's chance of being
>> merge-able into the main repo
>> - if they don't have the hooks installed, then when they run cmake on
>> VTK's CMakeLists.txt file, it should:
>> -- automatically install the hooks for you if possible
>> or
>> -- be a fatal configure time error with instructions on how to install
>> the hooks
>>
>> Period. If I were doing this, there wouldn't even be an option to turn it
>> off. Marcus is being more than generous here even providing that level of
>> control.
>>
>> If they can't handle that, they shouldn't be using VTK via git. They
>> should stick to releases / tarballs that do not have a .git repo in the
>> tree.
>>
>> There's no such thing as a "user" of a library. They're developers. They
>> can handle installing hooks.
>>
>>
>> Just my opinion,
>> David C.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> How much more complicated does this make the initial build process for a
>> naive user who checked out VTK and just wants to compile/run it? Every time
>> I send code to a customer, I invariably end up on a t-con where I need to
>> walk them through the process of building the toolkits. This holds even for
>> otherwise technologically savvy people. The frustration level on their end
>> can be quite high, even when we prime them for this possibility. Similarly,
>> we got blasted on this in a paper submission where the reviewer just wasn't
>> willing to try out the Lesion Sizing Toolkit because the install/build
>> procedures for ITK/LSTK were too high. If the intent here is to make anyone
>> who downloads VTK via git jump through another set of hoops to get up and
>> running, then I think it is a bad idea. I am happy explaining away
>> warnings, however, so making it a warning would be fine. I would also be
>> fine with adding something in for people who claim up front that they want
>> to upload back to the repository.
>>
>> - Wes
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>> That sounds pretty good to me.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/29/10 2:27 PM, "Marcus D. Hanwell" <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com <
>> http://marcus.hanwell@kitware.com> > wrote:
>>
>> So, I was thinking about this over the weekend, and talked to Brad King.
>> There is an environment variable that is set by CTest when it drives the
>> build. I can check if that variable is defined, and know that CTest is
>> driving the build.
>>
>> If I did that then when a user first configures VTK CMake will print an
>> error with copy/paste instructions to check out the local hooks (along with
>> a link to the wiki). They can set a CMake cache variable to ignore the hooks
>> to get past it if they wish. If you are not in a git checkout the whole
>> process is skipped.
>>
>> If CTest invoked the configure then the environment variable is set, and
>> so the error is not raised - negating the need to set a cache variable on
>> all of the dashboard machines. The only assumption is that CTest is driving
>> the build, which I think is reasonable. I tested the logic out in Titan and
>> it looks good.
>>
>> Does this cover all of your requirements reasonably? I will be checking
>> this code into Titan as I think it is an improvement on what we had there
>> too. I would be happy to check the relevant portion into VTK.
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov <
>> http://kmorel@sandia.gov> > wrote:
>>
>>
>> In short, a pushurl is not a good indication of whether commits will be
>> made or whether those commits will eventually be pushed to the main
>> repository.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/17/10 2:46 PM, "Marcus D. Hanwell" <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com <
>> http://marcus.hanwell@kitware.com> <http://marcus.hanwell@kitware.com> >
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Clinton Stimpson <clinton at elemtech.com <
>> http://clinton@elemtech.com> <http://clinton@elemtech.com> > wrote:
>>
>>
>> Can you key off the existence of a pushurl?
>> But I also wonder how this would keep the hooks updated?
>>
>>
>> We could possibly be clever and do a little regex to check for the git at form of the url/pushurl. I hadn't considered being that sneaky, but it sound
>> like a viable approach and would ease the dashboard pain.
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, June 17, 2010 02:13:37 pm Marcus D. Hanwell wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <
>> kmorel at sandia.gov>wrote:
>> > > That’s a good point about CMake modifying the source tree, but I
>> think
>> > >
>> > > this is one of those cases we should let the rule slide. In this case
>> we
>> > > are installing what, IMHO, git should be pulling for us. Although the
>> > > Wiki says its optional, it really should be enforced for anyone who
>> > > makes any commit to any repository.
>> >
>> > We came to a similar conclusion in Titan, but I am not sure about
>> letting
>> > the rule slide. This is new territory though, and it is just my take
>> >
>> > > I’m less thrilled about the “error if not installed” option because it
>> > > still pushes the responsibility back on every developer. It could
>> also
>> > > wreck havoc on the dashboards as there will be a delay in getting
>> someone
>> > > to fix the warning. But if that is the general consensus, it’s way
>> > > better than what we have now, which is nothing. If that is the path
>> we
>> > > choose to
>> > >
>> > > follow, then I would hope that the following could be be features:
>> > > - CMake be very insistent about installing the hooks. It should
>> not
>> > > be easy to miss or ignore the error.
>> > > - The error should give clear instructions on how to install the
>> > > hooks.
>> > >
>> > > It’s annoying to have to find it in the Wiki every time.
>> > >
>> > > - The check should also look for any updates to the hooks in
>> addition
>> > > to just seeing if they are installed. One of the problems I run
>> into
>> > > is that even though I try to be diligent about installing hooks, I
>> > > miss changes pushed to the repository.
>> > > - The check should turn itself off if not run in a git repository.
>> A
>> > > user who downloaded the source from the web would never be able to
>> > > satisfy the requirement.
>> >
>> > The checks in Titan have all but the third feature. That would be a
>> > valuable general addition though, and I think there is some code
>> floating
>> > around that could help us to accomplish this. It would be good to hear
>> how
>> > others feel about this, but we should certainly be making these things
>> as
>> > easy as possible for our developers. I will see what our software
>> process
>> > type people think - Brad, Dave, Bill?
>> >
>> > Marcus
>> > --
>> > Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
>> > R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
>> > (518) 881-4937
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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