Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:36:44 +0200 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> To: Ulrich =?utf-8?Q?Sp=C3=B6rlein?= <uqs@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Please check the current beta git conversions Message-ID: <20201006153644.S0HjS%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <CAJ9axoSX6Ht7wi6kO3SeCS_qxnPNBddVZnE-nES5o66ha2opdg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200903191410.sgjUQ%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20200926195056.1QqEB%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20201003221407.ZnssQ%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <EFE45CBF-74EC-47E0-98B9-6C52B2E6E338@iitbombay.org> <CAJ9axoRBTz89y6v%2BLVjdM-FgfEbk8GHVy=TeK0xKNCY089Oaxg@mail.gmail.com> <20201005172121.R1j6h%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <CAJ9axoSX6Ht7wi6kO3SeCS_qxnPNBddVZnE-nES5o66ha2opdg@mail.gmail.com>
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Ulrich Sp=C3=B6rlein wrote in <CAJ9axoSX6Ht7wi6kO3SeCS_qxnPNBddVZnE-nES5o66ha2opdg@mail.gmail.com>: |On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 7:21 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrot= e: |> Ulrich Sp=C3=B6rlein wrote in |> <CAJ9axoRBTz89y6v+LVjdM-FgfEbk8GHVy=3DTeK0xKNCY089Oaxg@mail.gmail.com>: |>|On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:53 AM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote: |>|> git clone --bare https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/src.git |>|> cd src.git |>|> git fetch origin 'refs/notes/*:refs/notes/origin/*' # <<< not sure ... |>|This is a quirk of the conversion. We have to patch up several tags |>|post-conversion, which patches up their notes, but that happens after t= he |>|full conversion is done. Notes are just 1 long linear branch, which ... |>|well, is unfortunate. So essentially every update to the repo changes t= he |>|last couple hundred of hashes for the commit notes ... |>|This will all cease with the final transition, obviously. |> |> I guess they will simply vanish and i could remove the reference |> from my config already today? |> |They will not vanish. They are there to map git commits back to SVN |revisions. |What will change is that they'll never change again and are just a static, |eternal record |of that mapping. | |Of course, freebsd committers can then in the future push their own notes |(but not force-push them) , but it's not clear what you would want to put |into them? | |If you don't have a need to ever map git <-> svn commits, then you don't |need to fetch |them indeed. Fantastic! Sure thing if FreeBSD moves over to git as such. Thank you. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
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