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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2024 02:24:48 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Matthias Fechner <mfechner@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at>, git@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Impossible to push my ports directory to my CI/CD pipeline
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 11:17=E2=80=AFPM Matthias Fechner <mfechner@freebsd.=
org>
wrote:

> If a rewrite of the ports repository is an option should be decided by th=
e
> git team, but I think that is the only clean way to get LFS objects out o=
f
> the repository
>

A rewrite of the history is impossible. It's a complete non-starter. The
resulting problems would be orders of magnitude worse than this relatively
minor inconvenience.

Warner

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