Redmine

Replying to myself, for posterity:

The vanilla approach to acheiving this is to have the git commit comment mention the Redmine ticket number, as in "fixes #123". This (allegedly): (1) links the task to the commit (link shown in the task view) (2) sets the completed field (3) changes the status.

In administration settings, the repository tab controls the details.

I guess I would have had better luck posting on the help forum; it's just that I was after general advice, not really help. It's a bit dead here, init?

Since #2009 for 1.4.0, it is possible to manually link a revision to an issue from the revision page.

We're evaluating 1.4.2 here. I don't see that option. Where is it supposed to be?

I think Redmine is having problems reading our repository. I can ... eventually ... get to a point in the "repostitory" tab where I'm looking at a single program. I get a header with the program name, the menu "history,view,annotate,download". History shows nothing, which is wrong. View and annotate look fine.

Admittedly it's not helping that it takes two minutes to open the repository tab every time. I suspect Redmine can't cope with a repo converted from SCCS (don't ask! :/ )

Andy Jones wrote:

We're evaluating 1.4.2 here. I don't see that option. Where is it supposed to be?

On the screen which opens when you click a revision link in History...

Admittedly it's not helping that it takes two minutes to open the repository tab every time. I suspect Redmine can't cope with a repo converted from SCCS (don't ask! :/ )

Converted to?
Indeed, it seems particularily long, there must be something wrong.

From SCCS to Git. Given that I see nothing in History, that would make sense.

The nature of our SCCS is that there are no folders, so we're talking about >3000 files in the root dir of the repo. Perhaps it's not surprising that it takes a few minutes to open.

I don't know if you're using a specific plugin; with vanilla it could be long to fetch data the first time you open the repository browser but then it should be pretty fast.

You can have a look to RedmineRepositories if you don't have yet.

No special plugin. We're switching to git hook updates now, but even with auto off, it's a couple of minutes -- at least one minute -- every time you click on the repository tab.

I'm not convinced that this is really Redmine's fault.

Is "Fetch commits automatically" checked in Settings > Administration > Repositories? Uncheck that and see if it resolves the long page load issue.

This does help -- I've already asked our admin to set up pushes to Redmine on a Git commit hook -- but the wait is still at least a minute.