In Darcs, any command can have a post hook (and a pre hook), and the hook
command can be set using a command-line option to the darcs command that you
run. So, in the Vervis SSH server, if we add a --posthook option when running
`darcs apply` to apply remotely received patches, we get a chance to process
the patch data much like in the git post-receive hook.
The setup this patch creates is similar to the git one: It writes a
_darcs/prefs/defaults file to all Darcs repos, and that defaults file sets the
posthook line for `darcs apply`. The posthook line simply executes the actual
hook program written in Haskell.
The current hook program is a one-liner that prints a line to stdout, so every
time you `darcs push` you can tell the hook got executed. The next step is to
implement the actual hook logic, by reading patch data from the environment
variable in which Darcs puts it.
Here's how it works:
- When Vervis starts, it writes a config file and it writes post-receive hooks
into all the repos it manages
- When a git push is accepted, git runs the post-receive hook, which is a
trivial shell script that executes the actual Haskell program implementing
the hook logic
- The Haskell hook program generates a Push JSON object and HTTP POSTs it to
Vervis running on localhost
- Vervis currently responds with an error, the next step is to implement the
actual publishing of ForgeFed Push activities
There used to be project roles and repo roles, and they were separate. A while
ago I merged them, and there has been a single role system, used with both
repos and projects. However the table names were still "ProjectRole" and things
like that. This patch renames some tables to just refer to a "Role" because
there's only one kind of role system.
* Repo collab now supports basic default roles developer/user/guest like
project collab does
* User/Anon collab for repos and projects are now stored as fields instead of
in dedicated tables, there was never a need for dedicated tables but I didn't
see that before
* Repo push op is now part of `ProjectOperation`
* `RepoRole` and related code has been entirely removed, only project roles
remain and they're used for both repos and projects
* This is the first not-totally-trivial DB migration in Vervis, it's automatic
but please be careful and report errors
I used this chance to make some name changes, add some utils, tweak some
imports, remove more `setTitle`s and so on. I also made person, repo,
key and project creation forms verify CI-uniqueness.
I decided to add some safety to routes:
- Use dedicated newtypes
- Use CI for the CI-unique DB fields
Since such a change requires so many changes in many source files, this
is also a chance to do other such breaking changes. I'm recording the
change gradually. It won't build until I finish, so for now don't waste
time trying to build the app.
Darcs does export most of its module tree, but there's a problem: Darcs
relies on the current directory. It changes the current directory of the
process to the repo, and then proceeds using paths relative to the repo
dir. This is bad for my case here. If some other thread uses a relative
path (e.g. currently any repo path is relative by default) in parallel,
it will fail.
For now, the quick path around this problem is to use the `darcs`
program.
At the beginning the rendering was invalid because it parsed the entire
content as a single line. For some reason, when I read the ticket
description from the DB, all newlines are returned as CRLF. I don't know
why yet or whether it can or should be changed, but as a quick fix, I
made the handler function filter out the CRs from the text. Then the
rendering is correct.
This matches the documentation of Pandoc, which mentions the readers
assume newlines are encoded as LF.
