Re: [eigen] git/github read-only mirror for the eigen repo

[Patrik Huber <patrikhuber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes perfectly, git can work with submodules hosted anywhere, as long
as it's a git repository.
That would be great :-)

On 8 March 2017 at 14:09, Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Why not. Would it be ok to keep the mirror on bitbucket?
>
> gael
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Ian Bell <ian.h.bell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> +1.  I've in general had good experience with
>> https://github.com/RLovelett/eigen, but recently they borked the history (or
>> perhaps Eigen did), breaking all projects that tried to pull code based on
>> one of the commits.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Angelos Mantzaflaris <filiatra@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> +1 for this request!
>>>
>>> Angelos
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 03/06/2017 04:26 PM, Mark Borgerding wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My team could definitely use that!
>>>>
>>>> As an aside ... I'd recommend git users try subtrees vs submodules. For
>>>> many (most?) cases, subtrees are a better way to manage a dependency on
>>>> another project.
>>>>
>>>> -- Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/06/2017 06:48 AM, Patrik Huber wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanted to ask whether it could be considered to set up an official
>>>>> read-only git / GitHub mirror of the mercurial Eigen repository.
>>>>>
>>>>> The reason for this is that it would be great to be able to include
>>>>> eigen as a git submodule into existing projects. Currently, this is
>>>>> not as easy as it should be.
>>>>>
>>>>> One can use one of the few inofficial mirrors like
>>>>> https://github.com/RLovelett/eigen, but then the issue is trust - do
>>>>> you trust that repo to not be modified? Possibly malicious? And all
>>>>> users of my library will have to trust this repo as well because it
>>>>> will be cloned alongside mine. Not an option for many. That aside, you
>>>>> never know at what point that user will stop mirroring/updating. Other
>>>>> solutions include git-hg (and similar tools) but none of them is
>>>>> really actively developed/maintained and it's not ideal. Putting
>>>>> Eigen's source code directly into your own repo is also not ideal, and
>>>>> downloading the zip via CMake download or external_project_add is not
>>>>> ideal either. The most straightforward and hassle-free way for
>>>>> everybody using git/GitHub is git submodule.
>>>>>
>>>>> What therefore would be great to have is an official, probably
>>>>> read-only, mirror of the mercurial eigen repo, that is updated nightly
>>>>> or something like that. I don't think this would create much
>>>>> additional maintenance burden, and it would be a huge gain for using
>>>>> Eigen, as I am sure many people using Eigen are using git.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (I was trying to search the archives if this topic has been discussed
>>>>> before but search.gmane.org returns a DNS error on my machine -
>>>>> http://search.gmane.org/?query=git&group=gmane.comp.lib.eigen - it's
>>>>> not impossible my Uni's connection is acting up.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you and best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Patrik
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----
>>>>> Patrik Huber, Research Fellow
>>>>> Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing
>>>>> University of Surrey
>>>>> Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH
>>>>> United Kingdom
>>>>>
>>>>> Web: www.patrikhuber.ch
>>>>>
>>>>>
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