On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Assaf Arkin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Daniel Spiewak <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> For some reason, I cannot GitHub fork the buildr/buildr repository.  Any
>> idea why this would be?
>
>
> Neither can I, and there could be two reasons for that:
>
> a)  You can't have two forks with the same name, so if you forked
> vic/buildr you can't also fork buildr/buildr.
> b)  You're a contributor on the project, apparently you can't fork a
> project you're contributing on.
>

Figured out why b) happens. It turns out when someone else adds you as
contributor on a project, that project is immediately added to your watch
list. As a watcher I can't see a fork button, but the moment I stop watching
I'm allowed to fork.

Assaf


>
> Meanwhile best thing to do is *not* fork or clone my repository, but wait a
> couple of days for Victor to work his magic.
>
> Assaf
>
>
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Victor Hugo Borja <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > I'm on it [1], it would eventually become the town-hall git repository,
>> it
>> > was based on Jukka's mirror, using the same authors file. I'm working on
>> > updating the aliases on buildr-git.rb. You can clone it an start
>> rebasing
>> > your experimental branches on it.
>> >
>> >         ruby -ropen-uri -e 'eval(open("
>> >
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/buildr/trunk/doc/scripts/buildr-git.rb?view=co
>> > ").read)'
>> >
>> > The intent of [1] instead of using vic/buildr is that I'd like [1] to be
>> an
>> > exact mirror of what is in Apache SVN (including trunk, branches, tags),
>> > and
>> > use my vic/buildr for my experiments, so that you don't have to pull my
>> > insane code unless you want.
>> >
>> > Also I think we could use github.com/buildr to host plugins people
>> develop
>> > and maintain, but that not necessarily need to be part of the official
>> > Buildr source base. When some code looks like must be in buildr's trunk,
>> we
>> > can always create a JIRA issue, giving ASF permission to include the
>> code,
>> > and then merge with trunk.
>> >
>> > I've added Buildr commiters as collaborators on [1] so they can
>> synchronize
>> > manually whenever they want, I'm just waiting for the git aliases to be
>> > ready.
>> >
>> > [1] http://github.com/buildr/buildr
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Spiewak <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Vic's mirror is only updated against the incubator repository.  It's
>> > > actually up to date with respect to that repository, but Buildr has
>> since
>> > > moved to a top level Apache project.  This means that the git clones
>> have
>> > > to
>> > > be rebuilt, and everybody with experimental branches will need to
>> rebase
>> > > (see thread "Welcome to Rebase Hell!" on the users list).
>> > >
>> > > I'm currently working off of Assaf's clone (
>> > http://github.com/assaf/buildr
>> > > ),
>> > > which should be up to date with the canonical SVN.  Eventually, AFAIK
>> the
>> > > plan is to rebuild Vic's  clone based on the new SVN and keep it
>> > > automatically updated as before.  Hopefully that rebuild start's from
>> > > Assaf's, avoiding the need to rebase *again*.  :-)
>> > >
>> > > Daniel
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Stephen Bannasch <
>> > > [email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > I saw that Alexis's git integration patch was applied because I was
>> > > > watching:
>> > > >
>> > > >  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BUILDR-222
>> > > >
>> > > > I have a git clone of Vic's git mirror of buildr:
>> > > >
>> > > >  http://github.com/vic/buildr/tree/master
>> > > >
>> > > > and opened my up-to-date clone in GitX to see what the patch looked
>> > like
>> > > > but it wasn't there.
>> > > >
>> > > > Vic's github mirror of the svn repo:
>> > > >
>> > > >  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/buildr
>> > > >
>> > > > is described on the Buildr site here:
>> > > >
>> > > >  http://buildr.apache.org/contributing.html#git
>> > > >
>> > > > doesn't appear to be being updated.
>> > > >
>> > > > The last commit on the mirror is Assaf's commit from svn rev 735108:
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> http://github.com/vic/buildr/commit/e35bc0fe8a0309d4cfdfb980af61cdb6f1a9990c
>> > > >
>> > > >  And adapted RubyForge task accordingly
>> > > >
>> > > >  git-svn-id:
>> > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/buildr/tr...@735108
>> > > >  13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
>> > > >
>> > > > I've setup git mirror's of svn repos and use svn post-commit hooks
>> to
>> > > > initiate an update of the a private intermediate git svn clone which
>> > then
>> > > > pushes to the public git repo.
>> > > >
>> > > > Is this kind of integration with svn possible in Apache svn
>> > repositories?
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > vic
>> >
>> > Quaerendo invenietis.
>> >
>>
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