As some of you already know, we're planning on moving our main repository and operations from SourceForge to GitHub real soon now. It's taken approximately two years (yes *years*, but worked predominantly on weekends and evenings) to get the entirety of BRL-CAD's repository converted from Subversion to Git. This work, by Cliff Yapp, has included fairly extensive complicated mappings to preserve as much data as possible, to fix old corruption, to track changes across major disruptions, to verify and validate that everything is preserved.
As this is a big change to our development operations, this is an intentional "open comments" period for folks to talk, to adjust, ask questions, give feedback, get prepared, explore tutorials, etc. The intention is to flip the switch in a few weeks. One question that's already been a point of discussion (and some of you have already shared your views privately, thank you) is how to handle the commit e-mail associated with past commits. If people want them associated with their current GitHub profile/e-mail, then we'll need to set those before migration is finalized. As it currently stands, everyone's commits are associated with a fictitious "USER@sf" e-mail. If you'd like your commits associated with a specific name and/or address, please contact me in private or make the change yourself in misc/repoconv/account-map. This may be a property we won’t want to change once conversion is complete. Cheers! Sean _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
