Moving to GitHub: Status Update, Action Required

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Oct 22, 2016, at 6:54 AM, Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> Hello MacPorts users and developers,
>> 
>> MacPorts will be moving to GitHub soon. We're sending this email to
>> inform you about changes in how you access the MacPorts repositories and
>> bug tracker. Additionally, this email contains information on planned
>> downtimes.
> 
> Is there/will there be a story for people who cannot use rsync to pull down
> updates because they're behind a restrictive proxy?
> 
> This affects one of the three computers on which I maintain a MacPorts
> installation.  I currently use the mechanisms described at
> <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN> to get around this,
> but of course those instructions are coupled very tightly to SVN.

You will be able to use git or svn to do that after we switch to GitHub. (GitHub has an svn compatibility mode.)