pear to git move discussion

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The following is an email I sent to the PEAR Group on March 18th 2011.

Today I floated the idea of migrating PEAR(1) packages to git after hearing about more and more projects that have seen an increase in contributions once moving their code to a more social environment (github).

Right now we have three accounts, http://github.com/pear, http://github.com/pear2, and http://github.com/pyrus — each are organizations which can have teams of developers with push access to repositories (see how PEAR2 is configured if you're interested in checking it out).

I would like to first endorse migrating to github as an option for pear packages. Then after some feedback from more developers perhaps migrate more packages.

Below are the details on how I moved all of the PEAR2 base components to github. This process is something that can be scripted if necessary.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com>
Date: 2011/3/3
Subject: git migration
To: Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgith@gmail.com>



Ok, svn2git supports standard svn layouts and preserves tags and branches etc, so that tool is essential. I found a git repo that has support for starting from a specific resvision, which is really nice since svn.php.net is HUUGE. That fork is here: https://github.com/svenax/svn2git and the first rev for /repository/pear2 is 284750, so starting from that will work much faster.

First, the steps on getting svn2git installed:
mkdir svn2git
cd svn2git
svn clone https://github.com/svenax/svn2git.git .
gem build svn2git.gemspec
sudo gem install svn2git-2.0.0.gem

Weee! svn2git uses an authors file in ~/.svn2git/authors (attached), so put that in place. Now create the repository on github for the package, and then we'll convert it.

mkdir PEAR2_Templates_Savant
cd PEAR2_Templates_Savant
svn2git http://svn.php.net/repository/pear2/Templates_Savant --revision 284750
git remote add origin git@github.com:pear2/PEAR2_Templates_Savant.git
git push -u origin master

Tada! Which package is next!?!?

authors.txt

saltybeagle = Brett Bieber <brett.bieber@gmail.com>
cellog = Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net>
dufuz = Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <helgi@php.net>
jeichorn = Joshua Eichorn <josh@bluga.net>
cweiske = Christian Weiske <cweiske@cweiske.de>
davidc = David Coallier <davidc@php.net>
gauthierm = Michael Gauthier <gauthierm@php.net>
clockwerx = Daniel O'Connor <clockwerx@php.net>