This is a utility written to address the specific needs in maintaining Haskell "mega-repos," or Git repositories containing multiple Cabal projects. It is intended to ease the process of deciding which packages need to be released and tagging those releases appropriately.
It provides the following functionality:
- Detect when local code has changed from what's on Hackage
- Note that, due to Hackage revisions, sometimes this logic isn't perfect
- Detect when a version number needs to be updated
- Dump the difference between the Hackage version of your package and the local version
To install it... well, listen. This tool is intended for people
authoring Haskell packages. Odds are, you already know how to do
this. And if you don't know, this probably isn't a tool that will help
you. Anyway, in order to install it, first
install Stack and then run
stack install mega-sdist, or just stack install inside this
repository.
This utility is highly opinionated in some ways, e.g.:
- It only supports one style of Git tag name:
packagename-version. This may look weird in non-mega-repos, wherev1.2.3looks better thanfoo-1.2.3, but for mega-repos the former doesn't make sense. It also requires tag signing. - It depends on Stack for both discovering all of your local packages, and for uploading to Hackage.
If you're OK with these opinions, keep reading for usage.
Let's say I'm working on the monad-unlift megarepo (chosen as an example of a relatively small repo). I've merged some PRs recently, or at least think I have. But I don't remember which of the individual packages within the repo this affected. Instead of looking at the commit history like some caveman, I'll typically do:
$ git pull # make sure I have all latest changes
$ mega-sdist
The mega-sdist command will:
- Build tarballs for all local packages
- Check what the latest versions of my packages on Hackage are
- Do a full
diffon these two things and see if anything's changed
At the time of writing, here's the output from this repo:
The following packages from Hackage have not changed:
monad-unlift-0.2.0
The following packages require a version bump:
monad-unlift-ref-0.2.1
What this means is:
- The
monad-unliftpackage I have locally is at version0.2.0. And it perfectly matches that version on Hackage. No actions necessary. - The
monad-unlift-refpackage I have locally is at version0.2.1. And it doesn't match the code on Hackage. Therefore, if I wanted to runstack upload monad-unlift-refsuccessfully, I'd need to bump the version number.
Well, again, if I wanted to see what changed, I could run (again, like a caveman):
$ git diff monad-unlift-ref/0.2.1 -- monad-unlift-ref
But that's long! mega-sidst's got your back. Just run:
$ mega-sdist monad-unlift-ref --get-diffs
This will print out the difference between the tarball uploaded to Hackage and what you have locally. Besides my tongue-in-cheek comment above, this is also useful if, for some reason, you either don't have or don't trust the tags in your Git repo.
One other thing: this diff is currently based on the pristine tarball
from Hackage, ignoring cabal file revisions. So the difference may be
slightly different from what you'd get from stack unpack monad-unlift-ref-0.2.1. But ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ that's revisions for you.
The default behavior of mega-sdist is to look at all packages
specified in your stack.yaml. Targets can be any directory. And
mega-sdist will automatically look at packages in any
subdirectory, so that mega-sdist . is the same as mega-sdist at
the root of your repo*.
* Assuming all of your packages are actually in your repo, but only crazy people would do otherwise.
OK, now I continue working on my project, and I've:
- Made some changes to
monad-unlift - Updated the cabal file's version number
- And of course I also updated the
ChangeLog.md, I'm not some monster
- And of course I also updated the
From the root of my repo, I run:
$ mega-sdist monad-unlift
Or, equivalently, from inside the monad-unlift subdirectory I run:
$ mega-sdist .
Either way, I get:
The following new packages exist locally:
monad-unlift-0.2.1
No version bumps required, good to go!
This tells me that my package has local changes, and the version
number has been updated, so that stack upload monad-unlift will
work. Neato! Now, you could just run stack upload ..., but here's
what I usually do. First, I'll review the changes I'm about to upload
and make sure there are no surprises:
$ mega-sdist --get-diffs .
The following new packages exist locally:
monad-unlift-0.2.1
diff -r old/monad-unlift-0.2.0/ChangeLog.md new/monad-unlift-0.2.1/ChangeLog.md
0a1,4
> ## 0.2.1
>
> * Silly changes
>
diff -r old/monad-unlift-0.2.0/Control/Monad/Trans/Unlift.hs new/monad-unlift-0.2.1/Control/Monad/Trans/Unlift.hs
51a52,54
>
> -- I just need some space
>
diff -r old/monad-unlift-0.2.0/monad-unlift.cabal new/monad-unlift-0.2.1/monad-unlift.cabal
2c2
< version: 0.2.0
---
> version: 0.2.1
No version bumps required, good to go!
OK, that's what I wanted. Time to release. Next, I'm going to use
mega-sdist to tag the release:
$ mega-sdist --gittag .
From the root of my repo, this would notice that monad-unlift-ref
still requires a version bump, and refuse to proceed. But inside the
monad-unlift directory, it notices that all necessary version bumps
are done, and happily tags:
$ mega-sdist --gittag .
The following new packages exist locally:
monad-unlift-0.2.1
No version bumps required, good to go!
Raw command: git tag -s monad-unlift-0.2.1 -m "Release: monad-unlift-0.2.1"
And suddenly I notice something new:
$ ls tarballs/
monad-unlift-0.2.1.tar.gz
Neat, mega-sdist left behind tarballs I can upload! To do so, I run:
$ stack upload tarballs/*
Note that this will work whether I'm trying to upload just one package, or all of the updated packages in my repo. Finally, I need to push the new tags to Github (or wherever):
$ git push --tags
And in fact, this upload sequence is so common that I have a shell alias set up:
$ alias upload
alias upload='mega-sdist --gittag . && stack upload tarballs/* && git push --tags'
So there you have it: convenient little utility to help manage repos with lots of packages in them.
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