Github reset

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Jan 31 10:39:14 EST 2013


Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> I think everything is in place to switch the master git repositories
> to code.gnucash.org and proceed with the github reset. The repos are
> configured at code.gnucash.org, the trigger to push all updates to a
> slave repo (github) are in place.
>
> The only thing left, is to actually do it. From what I can see, this
> requires some coordination between John and Derek as they manage the
> two servers involved in the switch.
>
> Here's what has to happen IMO:
> - Disable the push to github on John's server
> - Rename the current github repositories
> - Create new, empty repositories on github
> - Set the origin parameters in the gitolite repos to point at the new
> github repos
> - manually push once (git push --all in each gitolite repo)
> - update our git wiki page to explain the old repos will be available
> for a while to help migrating
> - (optionally) John's server could be configured to push to the
> renamed, old repos for as long as we want to keep them alive
>
> Did I miss anything ? Does any step require more details ?
>
> If not, I'll leave it up to John and Derek to pick a date and time to
> do the work.

I'll note that if John changes his server origin to the renamed github
repos then we don't need to disable the push to John's server.  But I
agree that that list looks correct.

> Geert

-derek
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