[Project-managers] Git hub mirroring

[Yann Collette]

Hello,

git has some equivalent tool for svn external: it's git submodules -> 
git help submodule

Best regards,

YC

Le 04/01/2015 20:24, Ted Ralphs a écrit :
> Dear project managers,
>
> Happy new year! I've now finally managed to get automatic mirroring of 
> many of the COIN projects to github working. You can see the result here:
>
> https://github.com/coin-or
>
> Any commit to the subversion repos on COIN should be automatically 
> mirrored to github within about 10 minutes (this needs to be set up 
> again manually when the server gets rebooted, though, so if you notice 
> that it's not working, please let me know).
>
> There are still a lot of questions to be answered about how this is 
> going to work in the long run. At the moment, there is no easy way to 
> check out and build a project including all dependencies, as there is 
> on SVN, because git lacks a notion of externals. There are a couple of 
> possible solutions to this that we are discussing.
>
> After looking into it a little more deeply, it seems that two way 
> mirroring will be difficult for a lot of reasons. github and svn 
> encourage very different workflows and keeping things aligned when 
> using both of them for commits would be difficult. It can be done, but 
> requires strict discipline and also restricts you from doing certain 
> things on git that you would naturally want to do, which makes the use 
> of git a bit pointless anyway. For now, I am considering these github 
> mirrors to be just that---static mirrors from svn. You should continue 
> to just commit to svn as usual. If you happen to get pull requests on 
> github, my suggestion would be to turn that pull request into a patch 
> and apply it to svn.
>
> If your project is not one of the ones currently mirrored and you 
> would like it to be, please let me know. There is a bit of manual 
> configuration involved at first and I will need some information from 
> you about how you want things mirrored.
>
> Thanks for your help with this. I think it is a good move for COIN-OR 
> to be on github and I hope it creates more publicity for all of you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
> -- 
> Dr. Ted Ralphs
> Professor, Lehigh University
> (610) 628-1280
> ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
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>
>
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