properly transfer ownership of IHeartEngineering/ar_tools

mintar commented 10 years ago

Hey @LucidOne,

I'm opening this issue since I couldn't find any other way of contacting you. It looks like you tried to transfer maintainership of IHeartEngineering/ar_tools here. Unfortunately, it looks as if that didn't go so smoothly. I can't find any of the old issues/pull requests over at the original repo; did you delete them? Also, you've force-pushed a README there; it would have been nicer to keep the old history, just do a new commit where you delete everything and add the readme, keeping the history.

The proper way to do what you tried to do is to use the "transfer ownership" functionality of github (it's in the repo settings). Only the owner of the IHeartEngineering repo can do that. The advantages of doing that are:

the old git URLs remain valid (they become forwards to the new repo)
all old issues / pull requests are automatically transferred (which is nice because they often contain valuable documentation)
the fork network remains intact

Maybe it's too late to do that now; I just thought I'd mention it for next time.

Feel free to close/delete this issue once you've read it. :-)

Cheers, Martin

mintar commented 10 years ago

I think I figured out what's going on. You deleted the old IHeartEngineering/ar_tools repo and pushed a new one there instead, didn't you? That's why all issues, pull requests, history and fork network are destroyed. :-(

LucidOne commented 10 years ago

Sorry about this. I didn't know you could transfer a repo so easily. AFAIK All the pull requests were merged and the gitlog history was kept.

mintar commented 10 years ago

No problem, just wanted to let you know for next time! Closing this ticket now.

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