Jun 22, 2015. Sphinx is now on GitHub

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TL;DR = Sphinx sources are now on Github, at sphinxsearch/sphinx. Please get the updates from there, SVN mirror at Google Code is not updated anymore. For a bit more details, read on.



Google Code is closing doors this coming August, and internally we have been using Git and GitHub for quite a while now, so it’s long due to bid SVN farewell. r5125, aka e7f124d, is officially the last SVN revision. We already closed down our internal SVN repo, and its mirror on Google Code is not updated anymore, too.

sphinxsearch/sphinx is now the official public repo. We only kept rel21, rel22, and master (aka rel23) branches in there. While the entire revision history is of course available in the new repo, we dropped the older, now inactive branches.

Issue tracking is staying on Sphinx Mantis, at least for now. Migrating to GitHub Issues was also considered, but seems clumsy, not without its problems, and without really clear killer benefits. We do however plan to add auth via GitHub there. (And, perhaps, simplify the basic bug reporting form, while we’re at it.)

As for the public SVN, we stopped updating it a couple weeks ago, and more, Google will eventually kill it. So, well, switch to GitHub. All the new updates go there. There already are a few fixes and even a small new feature.

That’s pretty much it, and if I missed something, just ask in the comments. Also, all hail Git! :)