Unless I hear any compelling objection, I'm going through with this this weekend.
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 18:51 +0100, 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
