[Swift-devel] Migrating to github

[Daniel Katz]

If moving to github, which seems like a good idea to me, why not also move
from svn to git?


On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Yadu Nand <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>
> 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
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: swift-devel-bounces at ci.uchicago.edu
> > [swift-devel-bounces at ci.uchicago.edu] on behalf of David Kelly
> > [davidkelly at uchicago.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:44 AM
> > To: swift-devel
> > Subject: [Swift-devel] Migrating to github
> >
> > Right now we have two repos - cog on sourceforge, and Swift on
> > 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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