Finishing Things – Intermezzo part 2 of 2

Jeroen Programming

So, like I wrote, Google is “bidding farewell to Google Code“. So my recently “wrapped” up projects needed some post-wrapping-wrap-up (you still with me?!). I’m using this as a good excuse to partially move from Mercurial to Git, because I suspect Google Code’s export to GitHub is probably the migration path they’ve put most effort in.

So, here’s my first (active) day at GitHub:

GitHub Contributions

I’m a little afraid that -given GitHub’s popularity- many will see this and consider it to be my current status on code hosting services (disregarding commits to those repo’s being done over a larger time span, and disregarding activity on CodePlex). However -given GitHub’s popularity- I guess my GitHub activity will increase anyways over the coming years.

As a related side note: moving projects from Google Code to GitHub was extremely easy. The web-based tool required nothing besides a link to my Google Code project, and me authorizing Google Code in GitHub through OAuth. The only downsides I personally found during this automated conversion:

  1. My old commits in the migrated GitHub repo’s don’t get attributed to my GitHub account, because the user details were different. Also, apparently TortoiseHg “helped” me commit unwittingly as “jeroenheijmans <jeroenheijmans@localhost>”. I guess if I’d payed attention I (sh/w)ould’ve at least used a valid e-mail address. (Yes, given that probably no one has cloned my repo’s (yet) I could probably rewrite history to change this, but it’s not that big a deal I guess…)
  2. My repository includes some Mercurial-specific files, i.e. a .hgignore file. I might’ve stripped that if I had done the Hg-Git conversion manually.
  3. The project home page from Google Code was not automatically added as a README.md file in the GitHub repo. I think that would’ve been nice. Then again, this omission gave me a chance to check out Git(Hub).

And so my move to Git(Hub) begins. I’ve already enjoyed reading through other people’s thoughts on (Git) commit messages, had my first dealings with Atlassian SourceTree, as well as a combination of the two. You’d almost wonder how I got the actual migration done at all.

I feel excited about getting to know more about SourceTree, Git, and GitHub. However, I’m also still very determined to finish Bieb, which will remain on CodePlex. We’ll see how that plays out in the coming weeks / months. Stay tuned.