Hi

> So that would mean that all link to trunk would result in a 404 Not
> Found, as I have tried it with [1].

>  So we either

> a) break all links to the 'trunk' branch, or
> b) leave the 'trunk' branch alive, with the added disadvantage that
> navigating from a 'trunk' link leaves the impression that the
> branch/repo are still in use.

> Did I get this right or is there something else?

yes. a) isnt very friendly.

If we choose b) we could rename the repository to sling-svn-ending-2017-10
or something like that. GitHub will redirect all traffic.

https://help.github.com/articles/renaming-a-repository/

The other option is to transfer ownership of the repository. Git will also
redirect.

https://help.github.com/articles/about-repository-transfers/


Best Regards
Ian


On 23 October 2017 at 13:48, Robert Munteanu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2017-10-22 at 15:28 +0100, Ian Boston wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Good solution. One small modification to help anyone get to the old
> > tree.
>
> Well, I saw what we did at Adobe last time we had something similar :-)
>
> >
> > Rather than switching the main branch and making it empty,  if you
> > branch
> > trunk to a new branch "archive" and then make trunk empty as you
> > suggest,
> > it will be possible to point anyone who gets a 404 to the new
> > "archive"
> > branch. Tagging the last commit from SVN would also help keep a
> > permanent
> > record.
> >
> > Only those URLs that are not pointing to a commit/tag/branch (other
> > than
> > trunk) will be broken and the README left in trunk can explain how to
> > change the URL.
>
> I think that there are plenty of links pointing to 'trunk' though. I
> have tried to make permanent links to github, but I did not do that all
> the time.
>
> So that would mean that all link to trunk would result in a 404 Not
> Found, as I have tried it with [1].
>
> So we either
>
> a) break all links to the 'trunk' branch, or
> b) leave the 'trunk' branch alive, with the added disadvantage that
> navigating from a 'trunk' link leaves the impression that the
> branch/repo are still in use.
>
> Did I get this right or is there something else?
>
> Robert
>
> [1]: https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/archived/KEYS
>

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