Moving your Dreamwidth installation to use Github

These instructions are for dreamhacks; those running your own instances I trust that you can modify to fit. This also assumes that you've gone through the "Set up git" instructions on https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git

stop all workers and the server

killall worker-manager
stop-apache

move your old $LJHOME aside (don't delete it though)

mv $LJHOME $LJHOME-xx

On github, fork dreamwidth's dw-free and dw-nonfree repositories

These are the two Dreamwidth repositories:

• https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free
• https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-nonfree

Here's a quick overview of how the repositories work together:

• dw-free is the main repository and goes into $LJHOME
• other repositories will go into $LJHOME/ext
• personal config files go into $LJHOME/ext/local
• Contents of $LJHOME will be live when you start the server
• Contents of $LJHOME/ext will be used automatically (no syncing)

Now it's time to set things up:

set up dw-free

# clone a copy of the repository onto your machine
git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/dw-free.git $LJHOME
cd $LJHOME

# and let's make it aware of the dreamwidth repository so we can grab updates later
git remote add dreamwidth https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free
git fetch dreamwidth
git branch --set-upstream develop dreamwidth/develop 
git branch --set-upstream master dreamwidth/master

# now set up the folder for external repositories / modules
mkdir $LJHOME/ext
cd $LJHOME/ext

for dev servers (not clone sites) set up dw-nonfree

git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/dw-nonfree.git
cd dw-nonfree
git remote add dreamwidth https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-nonfree
git fetch dreamwidth
git branch --set-upstream develop dreamwidth/develop 
git branch --set-upstream master dreamwidth/master
cd ..

## copy over your config files, and tell them to take priority
## over config files in any of the repos
mkdir --parents local/etc
echo "highest"  > local/.dir_scope
cp $LJHOME-xx/etc/config* local/etc/

run checkconfig

cd $LJHOME
bin/checkconfig.pl

non-dreamhack users:

• install .deb packages if given
• install any modules without .deb packages via cpan (theSchwartz)
• check any personal scripts you have to make sure they aren't affected by the directory config change
• note: you won't need to run "dw sync" / "bin/cvsreport.pl --sync --cvs/--live" or anything of the sort anymore

start server again

start-apache

some settings

You may be interested in git settings and git autocomplete to make your life easier.