[Bioperl-l] BioPerl Migration to Git/GitHub

[Chris Fields]

On May 6, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Dave Messina wrote:

> [ git-SVN metadata ]
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>> I don't really see much use for it personally, beyond retaining the SVN commit #.  
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> Oh well heck, in that case we may as well ditch it.
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> If there's some way we could easily keep an inactive, archived version with the SVN to github commit # mapping, that would be a nice safety measure, but if it's too much trouble we needn't bother.

I think we'll keep it in for the SVN commits.  Better to have it just in case.

> [ github or dev as primary ]
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>> It's fairly easy to set up multiple remote repos and push to them, so one could easily just push a local one elsewhere.
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> Great, okay, sounds like there won't be any problem there.
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> 
> [ single repo? ]
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>> We can always start with a single repo and a read-only mirror.  If we follow the Moose policy, one could fork from either the public Moose git or github and make changes, then post them back to the main github repo for review by the devs. 
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> Sounds like a plan.
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> 
> I'm pretty swamped until late next week, but if there's anything I can do to help at that time, just holler...
> 
> 
> Dave

Okay, will prep another email for the final push over to git.

chris