[R-pkg-devel] Advice on R-forge to Github migration

[Joshua Ulrich]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:10 PM Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> rgl has been on R-forge for a long time, but I am now planning on
> migrating it to Github.  I really dislike git, but Github offers enough
> benefits, and nowadays I'm familiar enough with them, that I think I'd
> be better off there.
>
> The easiest way to do this would be to do almost nothing:  just declare
> the the dmurdoch/rgl fork of r-forge/rgl is now where all new changes
> will be committed.
>
> Can anyone else who has done this migration tell me if there there any
> disadvantages to this that I don't know about?  What I know:
>
>   - I'll lose the bug reports and forum discussions that were sent to
> R-forge.
>   - I'll need to do a bit of work to change dmurdoch/rgl to a more
> standard R package layout, but this should be quite easy:  basically
> just moving the files in pkg/rgl to the top level.  I assume "git mv"
> will keep their history if I do this.
>
I've moved history and issues from R-Forge to GitHub for half a dozen
R packages. I might be able to do this rgl. At minimum, I could help
you do it.

Yes, git mv will retain the file history.

> Duncan Murdoch
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