On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:54:20PM -0800, Ping Cheng wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Peter Hutterer 
> <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 06:18:32PM -0800, Jason Gerecke wrote:
> > > After consulting with Ping, the CVS repositories are going to be
> > > retired. With SourceForge hinting at a possible end-of-life for CVS
> > > service it seems like a good idea to take a preemptive step and
> > > consolidate everything under Git.
> >
> >   \o/
> >
> > > However, while preparing the pull the plug I've run into a small snag:
> > > the legacy linuxwacom code is hosted in three repositories that all
> > > disagree to some extent. The linuxwacom-dev and linuxwacom-prod
> > > repositories on CVS are the most up-to-date as far as version tags go,
> > > but have different histories and tags. The linuxwacom repository on
> > > Git is slightly less up-to-date, but does have a few patches the
> > > others don't -- including the complete removal of kernel code.
> >
> > any other patches than removing the kernel code? if not, that could be
> > recreated quickly.
> > unless there's a huge number of patches, I recommend ignoring the git repo
> > and focusing on the most up-to-date one.
> >
> 
> We can even remove the current linuxwacom git repo if that helps. All we
> need is to import linuxwacom-dev to git as linuxwacom.

you don't need to remove it, you can just re-import in a new local repo
and then git push -f <remote> linuxwacom to overwrite the current one.
just be careful on that push command so you don't accidentally overwrite the
wrong repo :)

Cheers,
  Peter

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