Correct link is http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-mirrors/
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:00 PM Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fredhutch.org> wrote: > Dear Bioconductors, > > We're pleased to announce the availability of Bioconductor Git Mirrors. > These are read-only GitHub repositories (available under > https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror) > for every Bioconductor software package. These repositories are > synchronized with our > Subversion repository. Package maintainers (or anyone else) can fork these > repositories > and do their development on the fork. Complete documentation of the > mirrors is at > > http://bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-mirror/ > > These mirrors supersede the Git-SVN bridge, which is now deprecated. > Creation of new bridges is disabled and maintainers who are using the > bridge > should migrate to the Git mirrors as soon as it's convenient, as the bridge > will eventually go away. Instructions for migrating can be found at the > above link. > > Some features of the new Git Mirrors, and why we feel they are a better > solution than the Git-SVN bridge: > > - The mirrors contain complete commit history. > - The mirrors contain release branches for Bioconductor 3.0 and 3.1, and > new releases will be added as they happen. You will no longer need > separate repositories for release and devel. > - Setup is easy and you no longer have to grant any permissions on your > repository to other users. You can commit directly to Subversion > using git-svn (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-svn). > - Each git commit appears in the SVN log as a distinct SVN commit; commits > are no longer grouped together as they were with the bridge. Each git > commit can be mapped to a specific svn commit, and vice versa. > - The Git mirrors are much more reliable. > - Use is flexible. You can use git locally (without GitHub) or you > can use GitHub as well, to take advantage of all its social coding > features. > - Using GitHub's code search, you can search the entire Bioconductor > codebase. > Here's a sample search: https://goo.gl/jI92Ys > - Subversion is fully supported and remains the cannonical repository; use > of Git and GitHub is optional. > > We are excited about these new mirrors (brought to you by the hard > work of Jim Hester) and we hope you are too. Questions and comments are > welcome on the bioc-devel mailing list. > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel