Git Migration: github with svn access

[John Ralls]

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.

Regards,
John Ralls