Moving SVN Repository to GitHub

[Pritpal Bedi]

Hi Everybody

Can someone port the existing QtContribs repository to Github ?

Pritpal Bedi

a student of software anaysis & concepts

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Pritpal

To do this, Create new project on GitHub from their website

Select (Import a repository)

Type this URL: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/qtcontribs/code/trunk

Then you will have a copy of the source code imported from Sourceforge to Github in a few minutes

URL: https://github.com/MahmoudFayed/QtContribs

Greetings,

Mahmoud Fayed

Creator of Ring programming language

[Pritpal Bedi]

Hi

Not only code but history too. Will it be possible ?

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Pritpal

>> "Not only code but history too. Will it be possible ?"

Yes, The import process get every commit

Check (URL) : https://github.com/MahmoudFayed/QtContribs/commits/master

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Pritpal Bedi]

Thanks Mahmoud

Now I am comfortable. Will port on Github soon. The only issue could be how to port the files, installers, etc. which are avialble on SVN 's Files section. This feature is not available on Github. 

Pritpal Bedi

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Pritpal

>> "Now I am comfortable. Will port on Github soon."

GitHub is very nice, The service is mature and very stable

 

>> "The only issue could be how to port the files, installers, etc"

All what you need is creating a new release

GitHub will put a copy of source code in zip files

Also You can add binary files to the release, Then distribute their links to other developers

We do this with the Ring programming language : https://github.com/ring-lang/ring/releases

The files : source code.zip & source code.tar.gz are created by GitHub automatically

Then we added the other files (Binary release for Windows, Linux, macOS, etc.)

GitHub also provide free space for hosting your static website (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)

Publishing download links through a website increase the popularity

A nice feature in GitHub, When you click on the download link, It will start automatically

As we have in our download page that link to the release files in GitHub project : https://ring-lang.github.io/download.html

But when using Sourceforge - Clicking the Download link will open a Sourceforge page and you have to wait for sometime

My PWCT website hosted on Sourceforge have this behavior: https://doublesvsoop.sourceforge.net/

Another thing to notice, At Sourceforge, sometimes your project website goes down

But at GitHub, most of the time, everything is up and running very fine

My final tip - Sourceforge is better when targeting users, They can easily discover your project. if you have an application, and want people to discover it quickly then Sourceforge is better than GitHub. but if you have a programming tool or library, and You want programmers to discover it or contribute, then GitHub is better.

Also Sourceforge gives you download statistics, In GitHub you should use other external projects to give you the download statistics like this one : https://tooomm.github.io/github-release-stats/

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Pritpal Bedi]

Good tips Mahmoud, thanks. 

I will ask for your experize as I go.

Pritpal Bedi

a student of software analysis & concepts

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Pritpal

You are welcome

Greetings,

Mahmoud