[Dctrl-tools-devel] Anybody object to a redo of the git repository?
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
antti-juhani at kaijanaho.fi
Wed Nov 7 19:57:59 UTC 2007
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:53:13AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> The current dctrl-tools.git repository contains history converted by
> darcs-to-git, and the conversion is not perfect. I have now received a
> better conversion from the author of darcs2git, and I am considering
> switching.
>
> The problem is that this will be a history rewrite in terms of what Git
> sees and requires manual work from anybody who has (local) commits on
> top of the current conversion.
>
> Anybody have an objection to switching? Please respond in by Wednesday
> afternoon Eastern European time :) [+0200]
This has been now done. Instructions for converting local clones:
git branch -m master old-master
git fetch
git branch master origin/master
git checkout master
(This moves the old history under old-master. It is also accessible in
the collab-maint repository as the old-master branch.)
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