• Posted: 2020-12-10
  • Author: idk
  • Posted in git

The I2P Git Migration is nearly concluded

For over a decade, I2P has relied on the venerable Monotone service to support its version control needs, but during the past few years, most of the world has moved on to the now-universal Git version control system. In that same time, the I2P Network has become faster and more reliable, and accessible workarounds to Git's non-resumability have been developed.

Today marks a significant occasion for I2P, as we switched off the old mtn i2p.i2p branch, and moved the development of the core Java I2P libraries from Monotone to Git officially.

While our use of mtn has been questioned in the past, and it's not always been a popular choice, I'd like to take this moment, as perhaps the very last project to use Monotone to thank the Monotone developers, current and former, wherever they are, for the software they created.

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GPG Signing

Checkins to the I2P Project repositories require you to configure GPG signing for your git commits, including Merge Requests and Pull Requests. Please configure your git client for GPG signing before you fork i2p.i2p and check anything in.

Official Repositories and Gitlab/Github Syncing

The official repository is the one hosted at https://i2pgit.org/i2p-hackers/i2p.i2p and at https://git.idk.i2p/i2p-hackers/i2p.i2p, but there is a "Mirror" available at Github at https://github.com/i2p/i2p.i2p.

Now that we're on git, we can synchronize repositories from our own self-hosted Gitlab instance, to Github, and back again. This means that it is possible to create and submit a merge request on Gitlab and when it is merged, the result will be synced with Github, and a Pull Request on Github, when merged, will appear on Gitlab.

This means that it's possible to submit code to us through our Gitlab instance or through Github depending on what you prefer, however, more of the I2P developers are regularly monitoring Gitlab than Github. MR's to Gitlab are more likely to be merged sooner than PR's to Github.

Thanks

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who helped in the git migration, especially zzz, eche|on, nextloop, and our site mirror operators! While some of us will miss Monotone, it has become a barrier for new and existing participants in I2P development and we're excited to join the world of developers using Git to manage their distributed projects.