On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 12:10 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > rgl has been on R-forge for a long time, but I am now planning on > migrating it to Github. I really dislike git, but Github offers enough > benefits, and nowadays I'm familiar enough with them, that I think I'd > be better off there. > > The easiest way to do this would be to do almost nothing: just declare > the the dmurdoch/rgl fork of r-forge/rgl is now where all new changes > will be committed. > > Can anyone else who has done this migration tell me if there there any > disadvantages to this that I don't know about? What I know: > > - I'll lose the bug reports and forum discussions that were sent to > R-forge. > - I'll need to do a bit of work to change dmurdoch/rgl to a more > standard R package layout, but this should be quite easy: basically > just moving the files in pkg/rgl to the top level. I assume "git mv" > will keep their history if I do this. > I've moved history and issues from R-Forge to GitHub for half a dozen R packages. I might be able to do this rgl. At minimum, I could help you do it.
Yes, git mv will retain the file history. > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel