> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gisle Aas [mailto:gi...@activestate.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 10:43 PM
> To: Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR **
> Cc: Vadim Konovalov; tcltk@perl.org
> Subject: Re: Tcl.pm repo
> 
> On Sep 1, 2009, at 8:53 , Konovalov, Vadim (Vadim)** CTR ** wrote:
> 
> >> From: Gisle Aas [mailto:gi...@activestate.com]
> >>> The last "public" source repository is at
> >>> tcltkce.cvs.sourceforge.net (sf) and
> >>> it contains some commits from Jeff Hobbs, those are the latest.
> >>
> >> It comes back to me now.  I would have to research what it takes to
> >> restore access to that repo.  I would be much happier if we
> >> could move
> >> away from CVS.  Git is my preference nowadays.
> >>
> >> My suggestion is to convert the old CVS repository to a 
> Git repo and
> >> then host the official mirror on Github or Gitorious.
> >
> > I would be 1% happier with googlecode, but, given that you'll move  
> > the repository somehow, let it be your choice, I'm fine 
> with either  
> > Github or Gitorious.
> > Will you please take care moving both Tcl and Tcl::Tk at 
> once there?  
> > (and may be Tkx also?)
> 
> First attempt at converting the CVS repo from sourceforge has 
> now been  
> performed.  You can investigate and grab the result from:
> 
>      http://github.com/gisle/tcl.pm/commits/master
> 
> The tagging in the CVS repo appear to be lacking (the only tags that  
> appeared was Tcl-0-{72,75,85}) so I will spend a little time trying  
> verify the converted result and try to recreate some tags 
> matching the  
> most recent CPAN releases at least.
> 
> It seems like the history of the CVS repo starts with "Author: Jeff  
> Hobbs <je...@activestate.com>; Date: Mar 22 2004; initial import of  
> Vadim's Tcl-0.72 Perl/Tcl bridge module into sf cvs".  If you happen  
> to have a repo of earlier history, then we could add that to the GIT  
> repo as well.
> 

very much thanks!
Will I be able to commit there? (I've just created my new user "vadrer")

I wonder - are you really "converting" repositories, or just importing the 
latest source snapshot?
It seems to me that we could live without a previous history of changes.


> If you want I'll convert the TclTk repo as well.

may be just "importing" stuff would be enough.

Vadim.

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