Re: [OT] github "downloads"
Hi Greg, I'm not sure about unversioned binaries - but seeing as you're doing a wholesale move have you looked at Azure DevOps as opposed to Guthub? David Connors da...@connors.com | M +61 417 189 363 Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 at 19:13, Greg Keogh wrote: > Folks, I'm in the process of moving lots of repositories from Bitbucket > and Mercurial into GitHub. I'm doing this because it was confirmed by > chatting to people at DDD Melbourne last weekend that I'm living in the era > of floppy discs and VHS tapes. I can't really argue, because for the last > year there has been intense advertising of GitHub and Azure DevOps as the > new development ecosystem, and I am duty-bound to run with it. > > Sadly it seems there is no way to import a Mercurial repository into > GitHub and I must manually create each repo and add the files and lose the > history. If anyone knows better, please let me know. > > But my question is: while migrating wiki pages over to GitHub I fail to > find any place in the account where I can put miscellaneous un-versioned > files like images and other binaries. In Bitbucket there is a "downloads" > folder for this purpose, but is there an equivalent in my GitHub account? > > Cheers, > *Greg K* >
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
I was incredulous that there would be no way to convert mercurial to git (history intact), so I went searching. This seems to cover a few plausible sounding options: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16037787/convert-mercurial-project-to-git Hope that helps. On Sun, 18 Aug. 2019, 17:13 Greg Keogh, wrote: > Folks, I'm in the process of moving lots of repositories from Bitbucket > and Mercurial into GitHub. I'm doing this because it was confirmed by > chatting to people at DDD Melbourne last weekend that I'm living in the era > of floppy discs and VHS tapes. I can't really argue, because for the last > year there has been intense advertising of GitHub and Azure DevOps as the > new development ecosystem, and I am duty-bound to run with it. > > Sadly it seems there is no way to import a Mercurial repository into > GitHub and I must manually create each repo and add the files and lose the > history. If anyone knows better, please let me know. > > But my question is: while migrating wiki pages over to GitHub I fail to > find any place in the account where I can put miscellaneous un-versioned > files like images and other binaries. In Bitbucket there is a "downloads" > folder for this purpose, but is there an equivalent in my GitHub account? > > Cheers, > *Greg K* >
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
Also, random binaries is generally done with GitHub's 'releases'. On Sun, 18 Aug. 2019, 17:13 Greg Keogh, wrote: > Folks, I'm in the process of moving lots of repositories from Bitbucket > and Mercurial into GitHub. I'm doing this because it was confirmed by > chatting to people at DDD Melbourne last weekend that I'm living in the era > of floppy discs and VHS tapes. I can't really argue, because for the last > year there has been intense advertising of GitHub and Azure DevOps as the > new development ecosystem, and I am duty-bound to run with it. > > Sadly it seems there is no way to import a Mercurial repository into > GitHub and I must manually create each repo and add the files and lose the > history. If anyone knows better, please let me know. > > But my question is: while migrating wiki pages over to GitHub I fail to > find any place in the account where I can put miscellaneous un-versioned > files like images and other binaries. In Bitbucket there is a "downloads" > folder for this purpose, but is there an equivalent in my GitHub account? > > Cheers, > *Greg K* >
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
> I'm not sure about unversioned binaries - but seeing as you're doing a > wholesale move have you looked at Azure DevOps as opposed to Guthub? > Okay, this is a hot topic for me, and could be a separate thread about Azure DevOps "structure". I spent all of Sunday evaluating Azure DevOps, trying to figure out how to organise the hierarchy of organisations, projects, repos, wikis and readmes. After hours of fiddling around I'm still not sure how to organise these things in the most logical way. Do I have a organisation per customer I work for, or is each one a Project containing repos? The documentation is scatterbrained and uses jumbled jargon and acronyms. The portal UI is confusing and doesn't clearly show the hierarchy. If you don't come from a TFS background then it's really hard to get into the mind-set of how it's supposed to be used. Later in the day I suddenly realised that all of my repos were going into a url like this skeleton: https://dev.azure.com/ORG/PROJ/_git/REPO But didn't I want my code to seen at https://github.com? That's the famous url. Then I learned I can put my repos in GitHub but reference them from DevOps for CI/CD and such. So today I'm still confused about which direction to take. I'm angry about too many choices and the lack of guidance for Azure DevOps. So any general advice would be welcome in this area. *GK* >
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
> I was incredulous that there would be no way to convert mercurial to git > (history intact), so I went searching. This seems to cover a few plausible > sounding options: > So was I, and you led me to this: https://github.com/new/import I just tried it, and it works perfectly on one of my Bitbucket repos. I don't know how I missed that yesterday in all my searching. Thanks for leading me to it! *Greg* >
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
I have a single organisation, and a project per client. You can choose to have your source in the dev ops source or github, or both, whatever you like. The nice thing with git is you can set up multiple sources. So I have origin as github and for the projects where there is also a git repo on dev ops/VSTS then I have an upstream repo. So I do all my normal pushes up to github and periodically I will do a push to upstream to update that separate git repo. It has to start off the same repo. Ie I clone from dev ops, then push up to a fresh repo on github. It has to be fresh or it won't work. Ie if you create a new github repo but have no commits it will give instructions on how to push an already existing gut repo. Works a treat... you could also have it hosted on bitbucket with another remote url/name if you like. Git remote -v will show your remote URLs. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of Greg Keogh Sent: Monday, August 19, 2019 9:15:00 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] github "downloads" I was incredulous that there would be no way to convert mercurial to git (history intact), so I went searching. This seems to cover a few plausible sounding options: So was I, and you led me to this: https://github.com/new/import I just tried it, and it works perfectly on one of my Bitbucket repos. I don't know how I missed that yesterday in all my searching. Thanks for leading me to it! Greg
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
While clicking randomly around I found this GitHub article, which is really old. https://github.blog/2012-12-12-goodbye-uploads/ I find the argument rather lame, so there must be some other *real* reason for this decision. The replacement* "releases"* is rather cryptic and looks rather heavyweight for distributing simple binaries. *GK* >
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
I used the github .net nuget package to talk to their Apis. Build zips up the binaries and uploads it to releases with the commit hash. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of Greg Keogh Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 5:08:52 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] github "downloads" While clicking randomly around I found this GitHub article, which is really old. https://github.blog/2012-12-12-goodbye-uploads/ I find the argument rather lame, so there must be some other real reason for this decision. The replacement "releases" is rather cryptic and looks rather heavyweight for distributing simple binaries. GK
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
I wonder if Artifacts would be useful for this... I think you might need to package your files though https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/devops/artifacts/ On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:10 PM Greg Keogh wrote: > While clicking randomly around I found this GitHub article, which is > really old. > > https://github.blog/2012-12-12-goodbye-uploads/ > > I find the argument rather lame, so there must be some other *real* > reason for this decision. > > The replacement* "releases"* is rather cryptic and looks rather > heavyweight for distributing simple binaries. > > *GK* > >>
Re: [OT] github "downloads"
Interesting. I wonder if that's entirely different to the github package hosting. It looks different but who knows. Will investigate, I need to do away with a VPN dependency Cheers Stephen From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com on behalf of kirsten greed Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 6:47:18 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] github "downloads" I wonder if Artifacts would be useful for this... I think you might need to package your files though https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/devops/artifacts/ On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:10 PM Greg Keogh mailto:gfke...@gmail.com>> wrote: While clicking randomly around I found this GitHub article, which is really old. https://github.blog/2012-12-12-goodbye-uploads/ I find the argument rather lame, so there must be some other real reason for this decision. The replacement "releases" is rather cryptic and looks rather heavyweight for distributing simple binaries. GK
