Message-ID: <89645BC9-C6BF-4E57-8AA0-9F426BA8AC5E@rstudio.com>
Date: 2019-06-26T15:35:21Z
From: Lionel Henry
Subject: R-Forge > GitHub?
In-Reply-To: <8d6c6dd4-d231-ecc7-c584-6e08f93a81e5@gmail.com>
> On 26 Jun 2019, at 17:25, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> R-Forge is mirrored on Github; see https://github.com/rforge/ecdat, for example. That shows 418 commits in its history; presumably that's the full R-forge history. I think that's newer than Michael Friendly's gist.
>
> So I suspect (but haven't tried to do this) that migration now is as simple as doing a Github fork to your own Github account, and then basically forgetting about the R-forge stuff, or deleting it (and I don't know how to do that).
I think it's better to avoid the Fork button in this case, because forks are
treated specially in the Github UI. In this case you'll want your repo to
appear as a main repo, and not a fork. AFAIK the only way to unfork a repo
is to ask the Github staff to do it.
So instead of forking, use the "+" button on github.com and select
"Import a repository". This supports both git and svn repos.
Best,
Lionel