[augeas-devel] Burned by our git repos again

[Raphaël Pinson]

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:02 AM, David Lutterkort <lutter at watzmann.net>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Dominic Cleal <dcleal at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> The last problem might be David's GitHub repo, which has a larger set of
>> forks/stars than the hercules-team org repo, plus receives PRs directly
>> - ideally hercules-team would act as the upstream instead.  If David's
>> willing, it could be transferred to hercules-team and we replace the
>> current augeas repo there.
>>
>> It may also be worth asking GitHub if they can help us - the web
>> suggests their staff may be able to rejig the fork relationships via a
>> support request.  If so, David may be able to open a request to transfer
>> forks/stars to the hercules-team repo from his own, then recreate his as
>> a fork of hercules-team, which would make the ancestry clearer.
>>
>
>  I've asked the Github folks, and they said there's no way to somehow
> unify the two repos. I am all for transferring my repo to the HT org, and
> then me forking from there.
>
> Any objections to that ? (We'd lose some of the styars/forks from the HT
> repo, but I am hoping it's not going to be too disruptive)
>


I'm in favor of doing that indeed, also because it prevent people from
sending PRs against your repository instead of HT's as it happens sometimes.

Hopefully, the stars will somehow get back to HT's repo at some point.



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