Re: moving mg from salsa to github?

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 08:33:25AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:16:27PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I am maintainer for mg, currently on salsa. Problem is, upstream
> > doesn't release tar balls anymore, but moved the code to github.
> > No tags.
> > 
> > How can I tell Salsa? Should I drop the upstream and pristine-tar
> > branches on Salsa and integrate the repository on github? Would
> > you suggest to move the debian part to github instead?
> > 
> > Every helpful comment is highly appreciated
> > Harri
> > 
> You could probably add the GitHub project as a new remote, then through
> gbp.conf (assuming you are using gbp) you can name a new branch as
> 'upstream').  Alternately, you could rename the current upstream branch
> as something else and then checkout the master branch from the GitHub
> remote as 'upstream' in your repository.  You might also have to make
> some minor tweaks, but the above are the major steps.

Please  state some examples where that is done.




Groeten
Geert Stappers
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