On 10/11/11 17:11, Buddy Burden wrote:
> What I'm
> wondering is, couldn't I just fork the gitpan repo for Data::Random[2]
> and have that become my repo? Obviously I would never plan on merging
> it back, but that shouldn't matter, I don't think.
That would be the simplest way to go. That you would never merge back
is no problem: anybody cloning or forking your project will only see
the original commits as part of your repo history, and no-one will
ever be the wiser.
If you want to start afresh, you can use Git::CPAN::Patch (which is
what GitPAN uses under the hood to import the different releases of
the distributions):
$ mkdir data-random
$ cd data-random
$ git cpan-import --backpan Data::Random
and you will have the whole history under the branch 'cpan/master'.
Or, if you want to clone the gitpan repo the easy way:
$ git cpan-import --gitpan Data::Random
Joy,
`/anick
