On September 21, 2014 1:07:29 PM PDT, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote: >A few questions about the Bioconductor Git-SVN bridge: > >Q1. Is it safe to add, delete, add, delete, add, ... a bridge over and >over for the same package and GitHub repository? Not that I want to >do it, but I wonder if I had to, will I break something? >
I don't know why you'd want to. It will add a lot of cruft to the commit logs but should be safe. >Q2. Can you change the "SVN / Git wins unconditionally" setting for an >existing bridge, or do you just delete it and the recreate it? > That setting only applies to resolving conflicts during the initial bridge creation. >Q3. Commit history: In the past I've migrated other Subversion >repositories of mine to Git using 'git svn ...' (actually >https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git). This was not too complicated >since my Subversion repos were well behaving (e.g. had no branches). >This allowed me to keep the complete commit history. I can do the >same to pull down the complete Bioc Subversion package history to a >Git repository. >(a) My question is now, could I put this on GitHub containing the >complete history and start off with this one when I setup the Bioc >Git-SVN bridge? No. See the first FAQ at http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-svn/ Dan >(b) Would that work and/or would it confuse the bridging? >(c) If ok, should I use "SVN wins unconditionally" or will that just >overwrite the whole Git repository? > >I'm planning to work off Git, so most updates should go in the >GitHub-to-BioC direction. > >Thanks > >Henrik > >_______________________________________________ >Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
