[Bioc-devel] Bioconductor Git/GitHub Mirrors

[Ryan C. Thompson]

This is great to hear. I sometimes want to delve into the source code of 
a package's internals, but doing so through the SVN web interface is 
clunky. Being able to use Github's repo browsing functionality for Bioc 
packages is great.

On 06/16/2015 12:00 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> Dear Bioconductors,
>
> We're pleased to announce the availability of Bioconductor Git Mirrors.
> These are read-only GitHub repositories (available under https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror)
> for every Bioconductor software package. These repositories are synchronized with our
> Subversion repository. Package maintainers (or anyone else) can fork these repositories
> and do their development on the fork. Complete documentation of the mirrors is at
>
> http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-mirror/
>
> These mirrors supersede the Git-SVN bridge, which is now deprecated.
> Creation of new bridges is disabled and maintainers who are using the bridge
> should migrate to the Git mirrors as soon as it's convenient, as the bridge
> will eventually go away. Instructions for migrating can be found at the above link.
>
> Some features of the new Git Mirrors, and why we feel they are a better solution than the Git-SVN bridge:
>
>   - The mirrors contain complete commit history.
>   - The mirrors contain release branches for Bioconductor 3.0 and 3.1, and
>     new releases will be added as they happen. You will no longer need
>     separate repositories for release and devel.
>   - Setup is easy and you no longer have to grant any permissions on your
>     repository to other users. You can commit directly to Subversion
>     using git-svn (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-svn).
>   - Each git commit appears in the SVN log as a distinct SVN commit; commits
>     are no longer grouped together as they were with the bridge. Each git
>     commit can be mapped to a specific svn commit, and vice versa.
>   - The Git mirrors are much more reliable.
>   - Use is flexible. You can use git locally (without GitHub) or you
>     can use GitHub as well, to take advantage of all its social coding features.
>   - Using GitHub's code search, you can search the entire Bioconductor codebase.
>     Here's a sample search: https://goo.gl/jI92Ys
>   - Subversion is fully supported and remains the cannonical repository; use
>     of Git and GitHub is optional.
>
> We are excited about these new mirrors (brought to you by the hard
> work of Jim Hester) and we hope you are too. Questions and comments are
> welcome on the bioc-devel mailing list.
>
> Dan
>
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