User:Minooz/RepoSyncProj

Repositories' Syncing

Version Control Tool

• Basic Tutorial @ http://hginit.com/
• comparing popular version control tools [1]

1. Mercurial My notes on -> Min Mercurial
2. CVS
3. SVN
4. Git

Continuous Integration System

• Comparing Different CI Systems -> CI Feature Matrix

1. Hudson My notes on -> Min Hudson
2. Cruise Control My notes on -> Min Cruise Control
3. Buildbot My notes on -> Min Buildbot
4. Apache Continuum
5. Maven
6. Anthill

Scripting

• 1- Ant My notes on -> Min Ant

A new ant script is created e.g. buildHudson.xml that triggers the target(assign1.test) of main build file(build.xml) of the project. See below:

<project name="assign1" basedir="." default="myTarget">
  <target name="assign1.build.call">
    <!-- Call the target that does everything -->
    <ant antfile="build.xml" target="assign1.test"/>
   </target>
  <target name="myTarget.check" depends="assign1.build.call">
    <echo>The assign1.build was called!</echo>
  </target>
</project>

• 2- Bash My notes on -> Min Bash

Challenges

• 1- I was receiving an error message while trying to do a new build on Hudson. It didn't let to clone the project on Hudson workspace. The error message is "Access is denied". So I had to delete the project and create a new one. Apparently one of the reasons is that Hudson doesn't let you queue the jobs. So, if you interrupt a job that is scheduled, you'll get the error message.
• 2- To run a bash script to build the project, there are 2 ways:

Execute Windows Batch Command:

D:\cygwin\bin\bash /home/HudsonPrac/buildHudson.sh

Invoke an Ant Script

<project name="assign1" basedir=".">
	<target name="myTarget" >
		<exec executable="D:\cygwin\bin\bash" newenvironment="false">
		<arg value="/home/HudsonPrac/buildHudson.sh"/>
		</exec>
	</target>
</project>

• 3- Since the bash script is running in Windows platform through Cygwin, there are some conflicts,

so the PATH was changed to: PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH Read more about some conflicts here

• 4- If there was an error applying a patch to a repository e.g. hg import patch12.patch , there might be a problem with line numbers merging issue.

So, there will be an error created with this message: "Hunk #1 Failed". There are some ways to remove the hunks manually or just ignore that patch, if the later versions are fixed.