On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 16:55 +0100, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Stefan Seifert <[email protected] > e> wrote: > > ...it makes it more difficult if the contribution was already > > developed in a standalone git > > repo outside the ASF and perhaps there is already a commit history > > we want preserve... > > I don't think we are interested in the history of those donations in > general. > > If a special case needs that we can always handle it in a different > way.
This got me thinking for a little bit. Donations were always done as as source code dumps, and that's what was voted on. We did not vote on histories, and a case can be made that source code histories are less safe to import, as we don't review the whole history, but instead the latest state - the patch. Unless strictly needed, I would suggest that we import just the latest state, not the repository history. Robert
