Git Migration: github with svn access

[Geert Janssens]

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 ?

Geert