On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:02 +0200, Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi Bayard, > > in such case it would be good to add some putback check to avoid future > problems if mercurial is not so strict.
Absolutely. I plan to provide pre-commit hooks to check for this going forward. > Best regards, > > Milan > > On 10.04.2012 19:51, Bayard G. Bell wrote: > > In the course of fulfilment of my request for git mirroring, I've > > learned that we have a slight problem in our history: someone forgot > > to > > put a space between their name and the angle brackets surrounding > > their > > e-mail address. There are two ways to fix this: one is to ask github > > to > > disable validation of this data, the other is to fix the history, > > which > > is a destructive change. > > > > Since we're just getting on our feet, I'm inclined to make two > > substantial clean-ups in the history, one is to fix these commit > > records, and the other is to remove backed out changesets so they > > don't > > show up in annotations (which seems reasonable, given that the net > > effect is that no change happened, which to my mind shouldn't have > > two > > records against it for most repository contents). > > > > That means everyone using illumos-userland will need to re-clone for > > both mercurial and git. I know it's ugly, but I think this is pretty > > much the last point at which we can bite the bullet and clean this up > > properly--the other option is a workaround, whereas this is a painful > > fix. On the plus side, we'll finally have mirrors of the canonical > > available as illumos/illumos-userland. > > > > Cheers, > > Bayard > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
