On Dec 20, 2013, at 17:46 , Marvin Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Nick Wellnhofer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I requested the two new repos. tgzs shouldn't be necessary. We can populate >> an empty repo with git-push. > > Thanks for taking the initiative! I have two comments. > > First, if we populate the repo via a push, will that result in thousands of > emails to commits@lucy? I think the commit hook will bail out, but I don't > know that for sure. <http://s.apache.org/Vyp>. Good point. I’ll amend the INFRA ticket. > Second, the tgz suggestion was partially motivated to so that others might > help out with QC. ASF Git repos have receive.denyNonFastforwards set for the > master branch, so once we're set up there's no going back without Infra's > intervention. Oh, I didn’t know that. > To be honest, it's really hard to QC history, so I'm not sure how much help > having other people look things over would be. Personally, I prefer to review history with a web-based Git viewer. Maybe I should post the new repos to my Github account for review first. Nick
