R help - Feb 2013 - Migrating R packages from svn/R-Forge to git/Github

[I'm not sure if this post should go to R-devel, but thought I'd start 
here for wider readership.]

I have a  collection of R packages that I maintain using the 
eclipse/StatET IDE
(mainly on Windows) with SVN on the R-Forge system,
https://r-forge.r-project.org/users/friendly/

I'd like to consider moving these to git projects on GitHub, but I'm not
sure how best to get started.  I'm not sure if can can clone/copy
a project from the R-Forge svn directly to github, or if I have to first
create a local git repo from the R-Forge svn and then push to github
from there.

However, there are linux tools for this (git-svn and svn2git), but I 
haven't found equivalents
for Windows.  I suppose I could do this initial part on my linux server 
where I now use git and
github for other projects.

I'm also contemplating moving from eclipse/StatET to RStudio for 
development, but that would be
down the road a bit.

Has anyone made this transition or have suggestions for how to ease it?  
What are the
gotchas to watch out for?

-Michael



-- Michael Friendly
Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods York University
Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249
Web: http://www.datavis.ca

In the past Github allows one to import from an existing SVN
repository automatically via its web interface, but I just checked it
and it seems to have gone. What is left is:
https://help.github.com/articles/importing-from-subversion Perhaps it
is best for you to do the conversion under Linux and then work under
Windows.

Regards,
Yihui
--
Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca>
wrote:
> [I'm not sure if this post should go to R-devel, but thought I'd
start here
> for wider readership.]
>
> I have a  collection of R packages that I maintain using the eclipse/StatET
> IDE
> (mainly on Windows) with SVN on the R-Forge system,
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/users/friendly/
>
> I'd like to consider moving these to git projects on GitHub, but
I'm not
> sure how best to get started.  I'm not sure if can can clone/copy
> a project from the R-Forge svn directly to github, or if I have to first
> create a local git repo from the R-Forge svn and then push to github
> from there.
>
> However, there are linux tools for this (git-svn and svn2git), but I
haven't
> found equivalents
> for Windows.  I suppose I could do this initial part on my linux server
> where I now use git and
> github for other projects.
>
> I'm also contemplating moving from eclipse/StatET to RStudio for
> development, but that would be
> down the road a bit.
>
> Has anyone made this transition or have suggestions for how to ease it?
> What are the
> gotchas to watch out for?
>
> -Michael
>
>
>
> -- Michael Friendly
> Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca
> Professor, Psychology Dept. & Chair, Quantitative Methods York
University
> Voice: 416 736-2100 x66249
> Web: http://www.datavis.ca
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.