wiki:GitPlugin

Version 55 (modified by Herbert Valerio Riedel, 13 years ago) (diff)

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Git Plugin for Trac

Description

This is yet another plugin for Trac 0.10/0.11 which enables GIT to be used instead of Subversion for the trac:VersioningSystemBackend

Features

  • Browsing source code in a Git repository via the TracBrowser
  • Viewing the change history of a file or directory using TracRevisionLog
  • Performing diffs between any two files or two directories
  • Displaying submitted changes in the TracTimeline (0.11)
  • (Optionally) caching TracChangeset information in Trac's database (0.11)
  • Caching Git commit relation graph in memory (0.11)
  • Using the TracSearch page to search change descriptions (0.11)
  • Annotation support, also known as "blame" operation (0.11)
  • Interpretation of 40-character wide hex-strings as sha1 commit checksums
  • ...

Requirements

Branch trac-0.10 trac-0.11/trac-0.11-py24 trac-0.12
Trac 0.10.x 0.11.x 0.12dev (trunk)
Python 2.4+ 2.5+/2.4+ 2.5+
GIT 1.4.4+ 1.5.2+ (for plugin v0.11.0.1)
1.5.6+ (for plugin v0.11.0.2+)
1.5.6+

Example Sites

Sites that were previously using GitPlugin

Bugs/Feature Requests

As this is for now just a proof of concept implementation, it has quite some deficiencies, some of which exist as tickets already:

No results

...and other potential issues/todos which aren't ticket-tracked yet:

  • does not highlight sha1sums automatically
  • issues with filenames containing newlines (seems to be a Trac bug)
  • ...

Existing bugs and feature requests for GitPlugin are here (all including closed ones are here).

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Source Code

The source code is hosted at github.com

(An experimental branch of this plugin with a hacky caching feature and some bug fixes is available from here.)

Install

See also generic instructions at trac:TracPlugins

If you have a recent setuptools version installed, you can directly install GitPlugin from the Subversion repository.

For Trac 0.11:

easy_install http://github.com/hvr/gitplugin/tarball/trac-0.11

or alternatively the Python 2.4 backport:

easy_install http://github.com/hvr/gitplugin/tarball/trac-0.11-py24

For Trac 0.12

easy_install http://github.com/hvr/gitplugin/tarball/master

Configuration

Simply point your Trac instance to a local git repository:

[trac]
repository_dir = /var/git/Test.git
repository_type = git

## the following is only for the 0.11 branch
[git]
## let Trac cache meta-data via CachedRepository wrapper; default: false
cached_repository = true

## disable automatic garbage collection for in-memory commit-tree cache; default: false
persistent_cache = true

## length revision sha-sums should be tried to be abbreviated to (must be >= 4 and <= 40); default: 7
shortrev_len = 6

## executable file name (optionally with path) of git binary; default: 'git'
git_bin = /usr/src/git-dev/git

/!\ NOTES:

  • the Test.git above needs to be the .git repository directory (i.e. the one containing the file HEAD and config), not the working tree directory that holds the .git/ folder.
  • Wrong permissions may also be the cause of the error !GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?
  • If you are noticing a slow down in trac with a repository above 500 commits, try disabling the caching. It seems to bog things down as a repo grows.

If installed globally, don't forget to enable the plugin:

[components]
# for plugin version 0.10
gitplugin.* = enabled

# for plugin version 0.11.0.1+
tracext.git.* = enabled 

post-receive hook scripts

For Trac 0.11 see attachments below.

With Trac 0.12 a VC independent plugin approach to handling ticket references in commit messages has been put into place. Thus for 0.12 in you basically need to enable the CommitTicketUpdater component in trac.ini or via the webinterface under 'Admin/Plugins'. Additionally you have to call trac-admin TRAC_ENV changeset added <commitid(s)>, e.g. by putting a post-receive script into yourRepository.git/hooks/ along the lines of:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, call

GIT_PATH = '/usr/bin/git'
BRANCHES = ['master']
TRAC_ENV = '/srv/trac/myproj'
REPO_NAME = '(default)'

def call_git(command, args):
    return Popen([GIT_PATH, command] + args, stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]

def handle_ref(old, new, ref):
    # If something else than the master branch (or whatever is contained by the
    # constant BRANCHES) was pushed, skip this ref.
    if not ref.startswith('refs/heads/') or ref[11:] not in BRANCHES:
        return

    # Get the list of hashs for commits in the changeset.
    args = (old == '0' * 40) and [new] or [new, '^' + old]
    pending_commits = call_git('rev-list', args).splitlines()[::-1]

    call(["trac-admin", TRAC_ENV, "changeset", "added", REPO_NAME] + pending_commits)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    for line in sys.stdin:
        handle_ref(*line.split())

You will also need to change your trac.ini file accordingly. Thus repository_sync_per_request under the trac section is to be unset, and tracopt.ticket.commit_updater.* under component are to be set to enabled. e.g. :

...
...

[trac]
repository_dir = /path/to/git/repos.git/
...
repository_sync_per_request =

...
...

[components]
tracext.git.* = enabled
tracopt.ticket.commit_updater.committicketreferencemacro = enabled
tracopt.ticket.commit_updater.committicketupdater = enabled
...
...

Also make sure that the user executing the trac-admin command has read access to your TRAC_ENV and write access to your trac.log as well as to your trac database.

Help

09/06/2010 I was able to get this running with ubuntu karmic, trac 0.12rc and git version 1.7.1 (served with a gitosis install) after encountering the issue mentioned in bug #5480 ("GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?") with:

  chmod o+rx /home/git/repositories/blah-blah.git

12/13/2009 Anyone get this working in a shared hosting environment? I've tried with trac 0.11 and I get errors about it not finding the Git component (I did all the trac.ini stuff). If you have instructions please contact me, codecraig -at- gmail -dot- com ....thanks

15/04/2010 Apparently this does not work at all... At least not for me. trac 0.11. Please file a ticket with a decent problem report, instead of writing random notworkings on the wikipage.

13/07/2010 I've managed to get it to work (at least, for it not to complain about the plugin being missing) by adding:

file = /etc/trac/trac.ini

to the \[inherit\] section of the individual projects' trac.ini. Or, of course, you could probably just configure the plugin for that particular project's trac.ini directly.

Recent Changes

7757 by hvr on 2010-03-07 17:16:57
GitPlugin: ported code from TracMercurial in trac:changeset:6461
7756 by hvr on 2010-03-07 16:13:38
minor logging tweak
7755 by hvr on 2010-03-07 13:00:01
GitPlugin: decode git paths to unicode strings; fixes #5357
(more)

Author/Contributors

Author: Herbert Valerio Riedel
Contributors: Hans Petter Jansson

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