Re: [matplotlib-devel] git migration this weekend

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 19:57, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Darren Dale <dsd...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >> John, could you freeze the svn repo around noon on Friday? I'll
> >> convert the repositories and push them up to github on Saturday. Is it
> >> possible to close the sourceforge bugtracker, feature requests, etc to
> >> new issues as well?
> >
> > I did some poking around and do not see an easy way to freeze the
> > repo.  I can disable it, but then I think it won't be available for
> > read access.  One thing I could do is remove commit privs for every
> > developer, making the repo read only going forward.  This seems like a
> > reasonable approach.
>
> a pre-commit hook that just "exit 1" ? it prevents commits but not
> checkouts.
>
> Just my 2c,
>

Even better, a pre-commit hook that also echos out a message stating where
to go.  And maybe a pre-update/pre-checkout hook that does something
similar?

Ben Root