Hmmm, ok. I kind of liked having the message about being a fork of the Bioc-mirror, but the difference message makes it a little messy. Oh well. Was an interesting experiment.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:19 AM Jim Hester <james.f.hes...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think these are unavoidable artifacts with the current setup. The > commits from the Bioconductor-mirror are coming from SVN after being > translated so they have extra metadata attached to the commit message, > while your original commits do not have this. Therefore GitHub cannot > properly disambiguate the two commits, and you get this message. You will > also notice you get the same commit twice in your log ( > https://github.com/rmflight/categoryCompare/commits/master) due to the > same reason. > > Using your own repo instead of forking Bioconductor-mirror will make the > message go away and you should also not have the issue with double commits > I believe. > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Robert M. Flight <rfligh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> So this seems to work quite nicely. But in my own testing of committing >> with my categoryCompare package, there is one interesting issue of Github >> complaining about how many commits ahead / behind the fork is. >> >> So I moved my old github repo, and then made a fresh fork from the >> Bioconductor mirror, and made a new clone of that fork on my local machine, >> and ran update_remotes.sh. >> >> Made some changes to the readme (pointing to personal repo for issues) >> and committed in *master >> >> git push origin master (push back up to my personal copy) >> git checkout devel >> git svn rebase >> git merge master --no-edit >> git svn rebase && git svn dcommit --add-author-from >> >> When I looked at my personal fork, it shows 1 commit ahead & behind the >> original. So I pulled from *bioc* remote into master (and merge it), and >> then pushed back up to master. >> >> I still have this message: This branch is 2 commits ahead of >> Bioconductor-mirror:master, but there are no file differences. >> >> Does anyone know how to make this message go away? Should I just use my >> own repo instead of a *fork* of the Bioconductor-mirror? >> >> -Robert >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:10 AM Jim Hester <james.f.hes...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I have (in the past couple of minutes) added a more detailed description >>> to all of the GitHub pages. If you have URL or BugReports fields in your >>> package DESCRIPTION those are used to provide links to the project page and >>> bug tracker if they are available, see Roberts >>> https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/categoryCompare for an example. >>> >>> I would also recommend doing as Robert suggests and adding a link in a >>> README.md file if you would like to direct users elsewhere. These files >>> are automatically rendered by GitHub and users are used to looking at them >>> for project documentation. >>> >>> Thank you all for being patient as we roll out this functionality. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Robert M. Flight <rfligh...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Why not write your own *readme.md* file for the package and put the >>>> link >>>> there? There is nothing stopping the maintainer from having a README >>>> file >>>> in the package. Although it does not show up on the Bioconductor page, >>>> it >>>> shows up nicely on Github: >>>> >>>> My package: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/Bioconductor-mirror/categoryCompare >>>> https://github.com/rmflight/categoryCompare >>>> >>>> -Robert >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:43 AM Michael Lawrence < >>>> lawrence.mich...@gene.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> > It would be cool if we could somehow get the equivalent of the >>>> > bioconductor package page to show up as the "readme" on the github >>>> > page. Or at least, if there could be a very obvious link from the >>>> > mirror repository to the maintainer repository, without having to >>>> > click through to the Bioconductor package page, which might confuse >>>> > new users a bit. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:00 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. 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