[Swift-devel] Migrating to github

Justin M Wozniak wozniak at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Feb 4 13:44:37 CST 2014


We can just move the Swift/T code, not the whole repo.

On 02/04/2014 01:32 PM, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> Great idea. However, one thing to consider is that there will still be 
> need of svn repos such as SwiftApps and ExM which are too big to 
> migrate to github. So there will be two repo/protocols to manage.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Yadu Nand <yadudoc1729 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:yadudoc1729 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I think moving to Github is a great idea, also makes sense to merge
>     cog and swift into one repo.
>
>     Part of the reason for the popularity of Github is the social/open
>     aspect of development. Going
>     forward we'd definitely need that, and the sooner we migrate, the
>     better.
>
>     It also looks like there's some nice documentation here
>     http://git-scm.com/book/ch8-1.html
>     about git-svn interoperability.
>
>     -Yadu
>
>     On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Wilde, Michael J.
>     <wilde at mcs.anl.gov <mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>     > In in favor of considering this, and putting Swifts /K and /T in
>     close
>     > proximity in the repo.
>     >
>     > I think its a step to becoming a more open open-source project.
>     >
>     > - Mike
>     > --
>     > Michael Wilde
>     > Mathematics and Computer Science  Computation Institute
>     > Argonne National Laboratory                    The University of
>     Chicago
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>     > Subject: [Swift-devel] Migrating to github
>     >
>     > Right now we have two repos - cog on sourceforge, and Swift on
>     > svn.ci.uchicago.edu <http://svn.ci.uchicago.edu>.
>     >
>     > Sourceforge's SVN commit hooks are broken, so we do not get
>     email updates
>     > automatically from them when a change is made. Instead I rigged
>     a cron job
>     > that runs every 5 minutes, checks for changes, and emails them
>     out. It's a
>     > little ugly.
>     >
>     > Developers wanting to make contributions to Swift need a CI
>     account. This
>     > may discourage new developers from getting involved.
>     >
>     > Having two repos makes branching, tagging, and building more
>     tedious than it
>     > needs to be.
>     >
>     > This may need more discussion, but I would like to propose that
>     starting
>     > with 0.95, let's merge cog and Swift and move to github.
>     >
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