[Bioperl-l] Bioperl on GitHub

[Chris Fields]

On Apr 13, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Chris Fields <cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> As a backup for the anonymous svn access on code.open-bio.org, I have
>> set up a few READ-ONLY mirrors on GitHub for the main trunk code of
>> several BioPerl distributions, generated using git-svn:
>> 
>> http://github.com/bioperl
>> 
>> These are sync'ed every 15 minutes.
>> 
>> Note the emphasis on 'read-only'; we don't anticipate migrating code
>> over to github completely, at least at the moment.  Based on that and
>> several issues with git/svn two-way syncing (outlined in the git-svn man
>> pages and elsewhere), we will not support pull requests directly in
>> github.
>> 
>> enjoy!
>> 
>> chris
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> At the start of April GitHub announced support for accessing a
> github.com hosted git repository via SVN (and this is apparently
> not an April Fools joke):
> 
> http://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support
> 
> This means in addition to using the github read only mirror via git, e.g.
> 
> git clone git://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live.git
> 
> You can also use the github read only mirror via svn, e.g.
> 
> svn checkout http://svn.github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live.git
> 
> I've just used this to grab the latest code - it seems to work fine.
> This should be handy if code.open-bio.org (the OBF anonymous
> CVS and SVN server) is down.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter

Yes, saw that.  I'm thinking more and more we should start migrating our work to github...

chris