On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:17 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who commented. A few replies inline: > <snip> > On 31/01/2021 1:21 p.m., Joshua Ulrich wrote: > > I've moved history and issues from R-Forge to GitHub for half a dozen > > R packages. I might be able to do this rgl. At minimum, I could help > > you do it. > > Thanks for the offer (and the more detailed one offline, where you > recommend cloning the repository rather than forking it). Just for > future reference, could you tell me the benefits of cloning over forking? > We can discuss more offline, but at a high level: - if you fork my repo, mine is the head of the network graph - if you clone it and then push it to a repo in your account, yours is the head of the network graph
Basically, I don't want your repo to be a fork of mine. That would confuse users about where issues/PRs should be. I plan to delete my repo once you've loaded the copy to your account. > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
