Git Migration: github with svn access

[John Ralls]

On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> On woensdag 23 november 2011, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Nov 11, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>> On vrijdag 11 november 2011, Yawar Amin wrote:
>>>> Hi Geert,
>>>> 
>>>> On 2011-11-11, at 11:47, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>>>> […]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a way to create a branch via the github interface ? Or do I
>>>>> have to create one on my local repo and push it ? I didn't seem to
>>>>> find a feature on the website, but perhaps I missed it. I'm not very
>>>>> comfortable yet with te remote repo handling in git, so I prefer to ask
>>>>> before messing things up.
>>>> 
>>>> You can do the latter.
>>>> 
>>>> # In your local repo
>>>> git branch master remotes/origin/trunk
>>>> git push origin master
>>> 
>>> Ok, I created a master branch, but svn checkout still fails with the same
>>> error. I guess we'll have to wait for github's response to John's comment
>>> on the blog.
>> 
>> Well, there was never an answer to the blog post. But I tried it just now
>> and it checks out OK. Someone else has complained about an authentication
>> problem trying to commit, but we can't test that, it would break the
>> mirror with gnucash.org.
>> 
> I have been trying this for a couple of days now, but I still can't checkout. 
> What command did you use ?

svn checkout https://svn.github.com/Gnucash/gnucash

Tried it just now and it worked.

Regards,
John Ralls