Hi,
One year ago [0], I wrote:
> b) How to deal with the backup of the history?
>
> If tomorrow, the Debbugs instance suddenly disappears for some
> unexpected reasons, nothing about our development history will be
> lost: We have many copies of guix-patches around; even on
> Software Heritage [1]. ;-)
>
> We need a plan about Codeberg.
And this is an issue that have not been addressed. Not if Codeberg
would disappear, but about all the versions of the same Pull-Request
that just disappear even when the PR is still open.
A concrete example:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/440
• I sent the first version on June 2025.
• A second version on March 2026.
• A rebase on the last master today.
The first version is now gone [2]. No trace easily accessible from
Codeberg. This appears to me really annoying because it means we are
losing a part of the development history.
As in this case, without this first version at hand, the discussion is
meaningless.
By luck, it had been archived on SWH [3]. \o/
Well, I don’t know what’s the next actionable step. However, I think we
need a plan for preserving our whole development history. :-)
Cheers,
simon
0: Re: bug#76503: [GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg
Simon Tournier <[email protected]>
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:22:09 +0100
id:[email protected]
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2025-03
https://yhetil.org/guix/[email protected]
2:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/99d6020284cfa2be055fd5de786fa9406fe18f09
3:
https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:rev:99d6020284cfa2be055fd5de786fa9406fe18f09
