Re: [gentoo-project] Council / Git Migration Agenda

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1503 bytes --]

Dnia 2014-10-03, o godz. 20:00:24
Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> Starting a new thread for discussion:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Dnia 2014-10-01, o godz. 13:30:55
> > Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> > If you'd like to contribute another agenda item, please reply to this email.
> >>
> >> I'll offer up a further topic for the git migration.
> >
> > I think that there are a few issues that the Council may actually want
> > to discuss.
> 
> I was thinking of an additional item also worth consideration.
> 
> So far the general plan has tended to be that we would do a full
> historical git migration, and the last commit would just be the active
> tree, which would then be further cleaned up (remove cvs headers,
> changelogs, switch to thin manifests, etc).
> 
> I was thinking that it might make more sense to just make things
> really simple and ONLY migrate the active tree into the starting git
> repository.  That is, basically take the rsync tree, remove metadata,
> and do a git init.  (Then follow that up with removing changelogs,
> cleaning up cvs headers, and so on.)

Not rsync, 'cvs up -dP [-kk]'. rsync has a lot of cruft and out-of-repo
experiences. Using cvs directly gives us better guarantees about match
between full conversion & snapshot.


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 949 bytes --]