[MacRuby-devel] Moving to GitHub!

Mark Rada mrada at marketcircle.com
Fri Mar 25 23:20:07 PDT 2011


I've made pull request type things in the form of trac tickets, should I make pull requests for those tickets now or leave them them as tickets?

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On 2011-03-26, at 12:55 AM, Matt Aimonetti <mattaimonetti at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you were willing to contribute but didn't feel like using SVN, you can already fork the current repo (mirror) and prepare your pull requests:
> http://help.github.com/pull-requests/
> 
> Basically, the switch is a technicality for most of you, but it is quite a big change for the core team. With Xcode using git by default and Laurent finally converting, the choice was pretty simple. Bye bye git-svn!
> 
> We do hope to see more of you contributing now ;)
> 
> - Matt
> 
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Laurent Sansonetti <lsansonetti at apple.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> We finally decided to move MacRuby's source code repository from subversion to Git, and GitHub seems to be the best place to do it.
> 
> The move will happen somewhere this week-end, or Monday. The repository address will be: https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby. Currently, this repository is a mirror of the subversion one.
> 
> Here is how we will proceed:
> 
> 1) Add frequent contributors to the GitHub repository. [Done]
> 2) Update the nightly build process to use the GitHub repository. [Done]
> 3) Stop the GitHub repository mirroring.
> 4) Empty the trunk branch of the subversion repository, and just keep a text file saying that we moved to GitHub.
> 5) Refresh the website.
> 
> Once this is done, frequent contributors can commit to the central repository on GitHub, and MacRuby's development can continue. We will keep the rest of the infrastructure (such as Trac for managing the tickets), only the source code repository moves.
> 
> If you have any suggestion or concern let us know. Also, it's possible that I forgot a step or two, as I'm writing this under the influence of a few guinness :) Hopefully Eloy or Matt will correct me.
> 
> Thanks!
> Laurent
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