Git Migration: github with svn access

[John Ralls]

On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:07 PM, John Ralls wrote:

> 
> On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 
>> On maandag 28 november 2011, John Ralls wrote:
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> Indeed, that incantation does work. It seems to check out the current trunk 
>> branch. I can't figure out how to check out the 2.4 branch though, or the 
>> 2.4.x tag.
>> 
>> Did you have more luck ?
> 
> I have to admit that I didn't try... so I looked at the blog post again and I see that that was the old URL that they're supposed to be taking down. The correct URL doesn't work.
> 
> The right one fails. I had a thought that it might be the presence of a "trunk" branch, so I changed "trunk" to "master" in my own Github repo (github.com/Gnucash/gnucash). No joy.
> 
> I've sent a support request.

Which they finally got around to handling (Tuesday, but I didn't test it until today). It works. Yay!

So what's next? Setting up the hooks?

Regards,
John Ralls