[Geany-devel] geany on github; why not?

[Matthew Brush]

On 08/24/2011 02:56 PM, Jiří Techet wrote:
> Hi Lex,
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 07:21, Lex Trotman<elextr at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Some mixed comments.
>>
>> @Jiri I would have thought that the process for creating the Git repo
>> was to check the existing readonly mirror then move it to the chosen
>> host and setup access.  Or do you know of some problem with it?
>
> the disadvantage of using the current read-only mirror is the following:
>
> 1. It's not complete (just 3 years of history). Could be a problem if
> you want to bisect some bug which has been present for a long time.
> Apart from this it's just nice to see the complete history.
>
> 2. There are no tags visible.
>
> 3. There are no branches and branch merges visible.
>
> Even though it takes some time, I think it's worth doing the initial
> git repository setup properly because it's very hard to modify it
> afterwards (all contributors would have to throw away their personal
> clones). I think it's nice to see the complete history so you can see
> when each release was made, checkout any previous commit and think of
> the good old times when the individual commits were made.
>
> You can get a (one-year-old) complete SVN export of Geany from here:
>
> https://gitorious.org/geany/complete
>
> It's not perfect - the branches aren't "glued" to the trunk in merge
> points and the tags are squashed with the previous commits which I
> don't like but it gives you an idea how a complete Geany's history
> looks like.
>

We could also use the SVN import on GitHub.  It's offered as an option 
when you create a new repository.  I have no idea if it suffers from the 
same limitations you mentioned.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush