Re: [Libquicktime-devel] why not migrate cvs to git ? and libquicktime on github

[Sérgio B. <se...@se...>]

On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 17:25 +0100, Burkhard Plaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm aware that sourceforge closed CVS. I didn't make the transition
> because the
> project activity in the past months is close to zero and I'm busy
> with other things.
> 
> Of course I support the idea to move to git. The question is if it
> should be on sourceforge
> or github? Are there any opinions about that?
> I'd be ok with any solution (including moving the whole project away
> from SF) as long as
> a volunteer does it :)
> 
> I'm not sure about the user base of libquicktime. I stopped using it
> myself several years ago.

But have we any replacement for libquicktime and to read mov videos ? 

If you give access to the project I can do: git push -u origin master
to sf.net which is the way that I see that will give us less work .

Working with git give us very versatility , see my scripts [1]1 


https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/free/libquicktime.git/tree/update_libqu
icktime.sh

https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/free/libquicktime.git/tree/converttogit
.sh


> Burkhard
> 
> 
> Am 21.01.2018 um 23:07 schrieb Sérgio Basto:
> > Hi ,
> > As you may know sourceforge close cvs , I already talked with other
> > projects like ufraw , dvdstyler to migrate to git , you just need
> > do :
> > 
> > 
> > cvs -d:pserver:ano...@li...:/cvsroot/
> > libquicktime login
> > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@li...:/cvsr
> > oot/libquicktime co -P libquicktime
> > cd libquicktime
> > git cvsimport -v
> > 
> > In github.com press + and new repository, choose repository name:
> > libquicktime
> > without "Initialize this repository with a README" .
> > and run:
> > 
> > git remote add origin gi...@gi...:sergiomb2/libquicktime.git
> > git push -u origin master
> > 
> > and I got this :
> > https://github.com/sergiomb2/libquicktime/commits/master
> > 
> > 
> > with this method you preserve all commit history .
> > 
> > Best regards and Thanks,
> > 
> 
> 
-- 
Sérgio M. B.