On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Niall Douglas
On 13 Aug 2014 at 10:09, Beman Dawes wrote:
GitHub has a mechanism to transfer a repo between users or organizations. This would seem the easiest and most direct approach for boost endian. Is there any reason not to give it a try, and if it works as advertized then add it to https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/NewLibFromGit as an additional option?
Transfers on github have the big advantage that github will symlink the old URL to the new one (usually).
However not all git repos live on github, and those need to be accounted for. Github provides an Import git repository, but it does a bare clone which loses important information like git notes.
Better to do it by hand instead:
git clone --mirror <originurl> git push --mirror <githuburl>
Thanks for the heads up! That's good to know. I'll write strawman wording, then ask you to review it. --Beman