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barbie (2653)
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http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk/
Leader of Birmingham.pm [pm.org] and a CPAN author [cpan.org]. Co-organised YAPC::Europe in 2006 and the 2009 QA Hackathon, responsible for the YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org] and the QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org] websites. Also the current caretaker for the CPAN Testers websites and data stores.
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Links:
Memoirs of a Roadie [missbarbell.co.uk]
[pm.org]
CPAN Testers Reports [cpantesters.org]
YAPC Conference Surveys [yapc-surveys.org]
QA Hackathon [qa-hackathon.org]
CPAN to git helper
As I have a lot of CPAN distributions I want to port to git, I decided to try and make things a little easier (and fun) along the way. As I don't have a previous VCS repo for my distributions (I once did, but it died a long time ago), I currently rely on snapshots and backing up the current workspace. The snapshots happen to be the tarballs I upload to CPAN, and are kept in the current workspace so they get backed up too.
This made for writing a simple tool to firstly create a new git repo, unwrap each snapshots in turn, importing the contents and removing obsolete files, then doing the same for the current workspace. I did think about adding some code to login to Github, create the new project and then push the master and tags to Github, but I think that might be going a bit too far for the moment.
Any road up, if you have a similar setup, and want to port your CPAN distributions to a git repo that can be moved to Github, my little script might go a long way to getting you off the ground. The usual disclaimers about me not being responsible for breaking your code apply
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
git-backpan-init (Score:1)
Unless I'm mistaken, the git-backpan-init [cpan.org] utility of Git::CPAN::Patch might be able to help you do that too.
Re: (Score:2)
Not quite. Mine adds the Github entries and also removes files that have since been made obsolete or moved.
Re: (Score:1)
I'm not sure what you've seen that program not do. I thought it would have each revision stored correctly, with each one only showing files that were in each versioned dist.
I *think* it was inspired by my older program (but I could be wrong!) described here: http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/1720 [manxome.org]
Anyway, I hope we can all steal something from each other in the future!
rjbs
Re: (Score:1)
Yup, it was inspired by your script all right. :-)
And I guess that while we're talking importing stuff to Github, we should probably also mention brian d foy's github_creator [github.com], for completeness' sake.