[Rd] R-Forge > GitHub?

[Lionel Henry]

I think all 3 issues are solved by:

1. Use the "+" button on github.com <http://github.com/> and select "Import a repository".
2. Pass the URL of your SVN repo.

Lionel

> On 26 Jun 2019, at 18:58, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using prodsyse.com> wrote:
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>       Thanks to Duncan, Lionel and Henrik for their quick replies. I have further questions:
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>             1.  Will GitHub automatically transfer the commits I made to R-Forge in the past couple of days?  R-Forge is now at Rev. 420, and GitHub is still at 418.  Will 419 and 420 be automatically mirrored onto "https://github.com/rforge/ecdat" sometime in the next 24 hours or so?  Is there something easy I can do to force that update?
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>             2.  Is there a way to make this GitHub version the master?  It currently says it is a 'Read-only mirror of "ecdat" from r-forge SVN.'  I can probably change "r-forge.r-project.org/projects/ecdat" so I'm the only one authorized to make changes there and then stop committing changes there.  However, before I do that, I'd want to make sure I can commit directly to the GitHub version, etc.
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>             3.  How can I make myself the owner and a contributor for the GitHub version?  I'm a "Project Admin" on the R-Forge version, but currently no one can make any changes to the GitHub version except via R-Forge.  There must be a recommended migration process.
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>       I could create a separate version of this package on GitHub, but all the history would be lost.
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>       Thanks again,
>       Spencer Graves
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> On 2019-06-26 10:35, Lionel Henry wrote:
>>> On 26 Jun 2019, at 17:25, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> R-Forge is mirrored on Github; see https://github.com/rforge/ecdat, for example.  That shows 418 commits in its history; presumably that's the full R-forge history.  I think that's newer than Michael Friendly's gist.
>>> 
>>> So I suspect (but haven't tried to do this) that migration now is as simple as doing a Github fork to your own Github account, and then basically forgetting about the R-forge stuff, or deleting it (and I don't know how to do that).
>> I think it's better to avoid the Fork button in this case, because forks are
>> treated specially in the Github UI. In this case you'll want your repo to
>> appear as a main repo, and not a fork. AFAIK the only way to unfork a repo
>> is to ask the Github staff to do it.
>> 
>> So instead of forking, use the "+" button on github.com and select
>> "Import a repository". This supports both git and svn repos.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Lionel
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