[m-rev.] Converting to Git.

Peter Ross pro at missioncriticalit.com
Mon Dec 31 14:51:28 AEDT 2012


On 31 December 2012 14:53, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:26:09PM +1100, Peter Ross wrote:
>> On 29 December 2012 18:24, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:06:02PM +1100, Paul Bone wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It's finally time to convert the CVS repo to git.  I'll leave the CVS repo
>> >> online so that cvs diff can be used to generate patches.  I will now begin
>> >> the conversion which means I want to make the CVS repo read-only.
>> >>
>> >> Most people seem to either like git or be okay with the idea of git.  Hence
>> >> I think it is probably the consensus that we would reach if I actually asked
>> >> people what they wanted.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Mercury is now converted to git and uploaded to github.
>> >
>> > https://github.com/organizations/Mercury-Language
>> >
>> > Peter, Julien and I are project members/owners for this on Github.  So any
>> > of us should be able to add other owners/committers.
>> >
>> Is this organization private or something, when I try and go to it,
>> github asks me to sign in and then it just drops me at my landing page
>> for github.
>
> Members get commit access, so it is protected.  If you have a github account
> I can add you.
>
Yes, I have github access (petdr or peter at emailross.com)

However assume I am a new contributor to Mercury how do I access the
mercury git repo?  The above link doesn't work, it asks me to sign in
and then as I'm not a member of the organization redirects me to my
home page.  This I assume is not the intention.

Pete



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