Hi David,

Sorry to be chiming in late on this but I just saw the emails from last week 
and my attention was drawn to this bit:
https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-convention.github.io will become: 
https://github.com/cf-convention/website

I’m absolutely not an expert on GitHub, but the help pages about publishing a 
website from a repository seem to indicate that it has to be called 
http(s)://<orgname>.github.io (see 
https://help.github.com/en/articles/user-organization-and-project-pages). You 
can then set up a custom domain name to point to that repository, which is what 
we do with the cfconventions.org name. This would seem to suggest that if you 
rename the repository as above, the website might stop working. Is this 
something you’ve already looked into?

Best wishes,
Alison

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1235 778065
NCAS/Centre for Environmental Data Analysis    Email: [email protected]
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From: CF-metadata <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Hassell
Sent: 05 July 2019 17:00
To: CF Metadata <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Renaming of GitHub repositories

Hello,

Many apologies, but this week caught up with me, and I didn't get round to 
changing the repository names. But I will do it on Monday 8th July.


If you need to update a local repository, Guilherme pointed out that it might 
be a good idea to double check what you have before update the origin, with

$ git remote -v

For example, if you have  a  fork of  cf-conventions called 'origin', then the 
above command might return ...

origin 
[email protected]:castelao/cf-conventions.git<mailto:[email protected]:castelao/cf-conventions.git>
 (fetch)
origin 
[email protected]:castelao/cf-conventions.git<mailto:[email protected]:castelao/cf-conventions.git>
 (push)
upstream 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>:cf-convention/cf-conventions.git (fetch)
upstream 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>:cf-convention/cf-conventions.git (push)

... and you wouldn't update 'origin; rather you would update 'upstream' in this 
case:

$ git remote set-url upstream https://github.com/cf-convention/conventions.git

(I hope that I have got this right, Guilherme!)

All the best,
David

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 18:25, David Hassell 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,

Somewhat later than I had intended, and following on from Jonathan's 
well-received suggestions on this list (starting from 2019-03-22), I shall be 
renaming the following CF GitHub repositories:

https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions will become: 
https://github.com/cf-convention/conventions

https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-convention.github.io will become: 
https://github.com/cf-convention/website

I shall do this on Tuesday 2nd July (following the principle of never making 
changes that could affect other people just before the weekend).

Aside from needing to rename our browser bookmarks, this should have no adverse 
effects on most people.

However, if you have cloned either of these repositories, the old names should 
still work (according to 
https://help.github.com/en/articles/renaming-a-repository), but it is best to 
rename the remote URL as follows, e.g. for the "conventions" site:

>  git remote set-url origin https://github.com/cf-convention/conventions.git

(Don't take my word for it! See 
https://help.github.com/en/articles/changing-a-remotes-url for more details, 
for example.)

Please let us know about any concerns that may still remain on this topic, all 
the best,

David

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David Hassell
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading,
Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB
Tel: +44 118 3785183
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/


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David Hassell
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading,
Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB
Tel: +44 118 3785183
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/
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