Re: [Caml-list] OCaml Forge and Github

[Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>]

Hi Anil,

> (...)

> You may be able to handle the Forge interaction through that mechanism, for
> instance by doing an SVN commit from the Git push hook. I'm experimenting
> with building ocamldoc for every package and pushing it to the gh-pages
> branch (so that it's published on GitHub pages automatically on every push).

Even if I decided to keep a repo on the Forge, I would migrate it to Git anyway.
Not only wouldn't I have to worry about possible issues in the Git -> SVN bridge,
it would be my little contribution to burying SVN...


> Incidentally, the scripts that convert the OCaml SVN to Git are available:
> https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org-scripts/tree/master/vcs-sync/svn-ocaml
> 
> They are a bit smarter than the average SVN->Git convertor and create real
> git branches for SVN tags.  This may help you if you wish to migrate from
> SVN to Git (even if the Forge supports git, it probably requires this 
> conversion process too).

I was just looking into tools to ease that process -- thanks!

Best regards,
Dario Teixeira