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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:31:34AM -0500, Thomas Morin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A bit of context to make my question clearer: openstack/networking-bagpipe
> relies on bagpipe-bgp which is not an openstack project although done by the
> same people, and we would see a significant benefit in moving the code from
> github to openstack. This post does not relate to licence/CLA questions (all
> clear AFAIK, licence is Apache, all contributions by people who are also
> Openstack contributors). It does not relate to code style or lib
> dependencies either (there are a few things to adapt, which we have
> identified and mostly covered already).
> 
> The target would be: have the content of github's bagpipe-bgp repo become a
> sub directory of the networking-bagpipe repo, and then tweak
> setup.cfg/tox.ini so that this subdirectory becomes packaged and tested.
> 
> The question is:  how to achieve that without squashing/losing all git
> history (and without pushing one gerrit change per existing commit in the
> current history) ?
> 
> Would the following work...?
> - in the github repo: prepare a 'move_to_openstack' branch  where all repo
> content is moved in a 'bagpipe_bgp' subdir
> - in networking-bagpipe repo:
>    * create a 'welcome_bagpipe_bgp' branch
>    * have a manual step where someone (infra team ?) adds the github repo as
> a remote and merges the remote 'move_to_openstack' branch into the
> 'welcome_bagpipe_bgp' local branch (without squashing).
>    * in this 'welcome_bagpipe_bgp' branch do whatever is needed in terms of
> setup.cfg/requirements.txt/tox.ini ...
>    * when everything is ready, merge the 'welcome_bagpipe_bgp' branch into
> master
> - (in the gitub repo: replace the content with an explanation message)
> 
> (If the above does not work, what other possibility ?)
> 
> -Thomas
> 
> [1]  https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/bagpipe-bgp
> 
Just to close the loop, Yolanda was able to help with this request yesterday.
Feel free to ping #openstack-infra if you have futher issues.

-PB