While slowly merging with Sweden, and ADSL which should reach my house in some two weeks, I am enjoying my new office space and Git to upload patches to the CDK. Christoph wondered if we should switch CDK from SVN to Git. A few developers objected, for various reasons: no native Windows clients (though msysgit might be the solution), no (stable) plugins for Eclipse, IDEA(?), etc.

I made the switch, and really happy about it.

Anyway, one issue for me not to switch the full CDK project would be to have a central place where we could host our Git repository. Now, GitHub does just that, and after inquiring with them about the 100MB limit, Tom emailed me:

Hi Egon,

We’d love to have your open source project on GitHub. The 100MB is currently a soft limit, so you won’t have any problems uploading a larger repo. We hope you enjoy GitHub!

Tom Preston-Werner
github.com/mojombo

So, I created an account (I’m happy there are so few Egon’s in the world :), and uploaded the CDK 1.2 branch, which, for now at least, will serve as mirror only, while SVN will be the primary repository.

You can easily check it out with:

$ git clone git://github.com/egonw/cdk.git

I am not sure how you can email me your patches, but I know it is possible and report on this later. This mirror is important to those who want to play with Git, as one no longer requires git-svn, dropping one dependency.

Now, it does provide some extra payload on my side, as I need to keep cdk SVN repository (or, better, my git-svn copy of it) synchronized with the git repository, but this turned out to be fairly easy:

$ cd GitHub/cdk
$ git pull ../../SourceForge/git-svn/cdk my-local-1.2
$ git push

So, does this mean no goodies for people who stick to SVN? No, there are some, like this PunchCard:

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2008/09/git-mirror-for-cdk.html.