[Nix-dev] nixos and nixpkgs repos on github

[Corey O'Connor]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Mathijs Kwik <mathijs at bluescreen303.nl>
wrote:
> Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> writes:
>
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I don't understand the whole
> svn-to-git-import-is-hard issue.
> Am I missing something?

I don't think so. As I understand things there is a push to move all NixOS
repos under the NixOS organization on github. However this process is
taking quite a long time. I'm not sure why or how I can speed things along.

I have a mess of automated tools designed to work with git. Which is why I
have a hard time using SVN or even git-svn. Though I'm also not a git
expert so my difficulties might only be a result of that.

*shrug*

> Mathijs
>
>> Excerpts from Florian Friesdorf's message of Sat Feb 18 16:06:06 +0100
2012:
>>> How does your authors.txt differ from maintainers.nix?
>> authors.txt is used to rewrite svn user names to emails (which git
>> requires). I never compared both. I just took the file from someone else
>> in the past adding missing email entries.
>>
>> But that's not the point - I think we should all base our branches on
>> the same git repo sharing history - that's why I offer access to my SSH
>> account so that people can push and share their ideas.
>>
>> I hesitated moving to github because all "forks" would contain "froked
>> from" info - and I didn't want to look like the "initial author" of
>> nixpkgs - because I'm not. That's why I hesitated from uploading to
>> github. But its a fact that at least some (if not the majority) would
>> prefer using git for various reasons (even though some users could also
>> imagine using other tools such as monotone, fossil or mercurial).
>>
>> So I appreciate this (unofficial) step - just want to coordinate that
>> this doesn't happen over and over again.
>>
>> Marc Weber
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