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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks to Duncan, Lionel and Henrik for their quick replies. I have > further questions: > > > 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? > > > 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. > > > 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. > > > I could create a separate version of this package on GitHub, but all > the history would be lost. > > > Thanks again, > Spencer Graves > > > On 2019-06-26 10:35, Lionel Henry wrote: >>> On 26 Jun 2019, at 17:25, Duncan Murdoch <[email protected]> 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
