[Bioc-devel] Clarifying/simplifying on the SVN-Github mirroring

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Renaud Gaujoux" <renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> Cc: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 12:29:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Clarifying/simplifying on the SVN-Github mirroring
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> Hi Dan,
> can't wait to walk this bridge. Could you tease us a bit on how it
> would work? Will it use github's svn interface and leave developers
> transparently use a plain github repo (possibly following some
> simple naming conventions)?

No. hedgehog will remain the canonical repository for BioC source.
The bridge will look a lot like what you are doing now, in fact it's based on the document you referenced. But you won't have to know anything about git-svn.

You'll create a github repos (or take an existing repos) and add bioc-sync as a collaborator on it, then you'll set up a webhook URL. Then you'll go to a web page and create a bridge between the github repos and the svn repos.

Now svn commits will automatically show up in the github master branch, and git pushes will show up in svn.
The bridge will only ever touch the master branch in github. So do all the branching you want, just make sure the contents of master are what you want to push to svn.

Other users can fork your repos, send you pull requests, file issues, and use all other github social coding features. It's up to you to accept pull requests and merge them into master (and thus svn).

Dan



> Many thanks.
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> 
> Bests,
> Renaud
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> On 26 September 2013 19:25, Dan Tenenbaum < dtenenba at fhcrc.org >
> wrote:
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> Hi Renaud,
> 
> We're working on a github-svn bridge for Bioconductor packages, but
> it's not ready yet. We will definitely announce it when it is ready.
> It will supersede the document you're looking at, though there is
> nothing to stop you from continuing to use that if you want to.
> 
> 
> Dan
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Renaud Gaujoux" < renaud at mancala.cbio.uct.ac.za >
> > To: bioc-devel at r-project.org
> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 1:09:15 AM
> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Clarifying/simplifying on the SVN-Github
> > mirroring
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > if I understood correctly the instructions on
> > https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocGithubHelp/wiki/Managing-your-Bioc-code-on-hedgehog-and-github
> > ,
> > it is recommend to work/branch out directly on the local git-svn
> > branch,
> > and merge into the github master branch to sync code on github.
> > Couple of
> > questions on this:
> > 
> > * what about feature branches? Should these branch out from the
> > svn-bound
> > branch? In this case I believe they won't be pushed to github? Easy
> > branching is one of the nice feature of git, which I heavily use
> > (through
> > git-flow) so it is important that the different branches (devel,
> > release,
> > features) are sent back to github in order to really benefit from
> > its
> > management tools (issues, network graph, etc..)
> > * the workflow seems to be the opposite of what Cameron Bracken's
> > post
> > suggests http://cameron.bracken.bz/git-with-r-forge , where one
> > work
> > on the
> > github-bound master branch and merge back onto the svn-bound branch
> > once
> > happy, right?
> > I have experimented Cameron's workflow and faced many times lots of
> > conflict issues that are a hassle to solve on each merge. Does the
> > Bioconductor workflow have this issue?
> > 
> > Overall, I wonder if it wouldn't be easier (from the developer
> > point
> > of
> > view) if Bioconductor build farm allowed to point to an external
> > SVN
> > repository? Since github provides such an interface that
> > transparently
> > serves github repos to SVN calls, this would just wave out the need
> > for
> > duplicated branches and git-svn integration trick. Possible? Que
> > tal?
> > R-forge used to propose such option, which is apparently and sadly
> > not
> > working anymore. It really avoided lots of head ache.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > Bests,
> > Renaud
> > 
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