Ok… I’m pretty sure Iceberg did not delete my MC metadata. Maybe I used it too 
long ago for my project

> On 13 May 2017, at 15:43, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> 
>> On 13 May 2017, at 13:16, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m not a bit expert, but if you don’t use “metadataless” format everything 
>> works fine with monticello. I.e. each git commit contains all the mc history.
> 
> yes, but with iceberg we did another choice: we force metadataless and do not 
> keep compatibility with monticello. 
> this is like that by design: keeping the metadata was too much noise and 
> generated a lot of conflicts we don’t want. 
> 
> So, using iceberg is not using git as “just another repository format as 
> http, ftp, etc.”.
> If you want  to keep both versions, then you need to save in mc format then 
> save again in iceberg (or viceversa).
> 
> Esteban
> 
>> 
>> Uko
>> 
>>> On 13 May 2017, at 09:28, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goub...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Le 13/05/2017 à 08:58, Stephane Ducasse a écrit :
>>>> My gut feeling is that it will be better not to mix git and MC.
>>> 
>>> It is easy to make MC compatible with Git.
>>> 
>>> It wasn't that hard in the past, but needed a community effort (MC being a 
>>> core part of the system). Now, with the infrastructure underway (libgit, 
>>> git fast-import) it looks very easy to implement.
>>> 
>>> Thierry
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Oleksandr Zaytsev
>>>> <olk.zayt...@gmail.com <mailto:olk.zayt...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>  Hello
>>>> 
>>>>  Two days ago I was trying to send the slice with my fix to PolyMath
>>>>  using Monticello. But the version number got set to 1494471195.
>>>>  Today I realized that all the packages to which I commit are
>>>>  numbered like that.
>>>> 
>>>>  Cyril Ferlicot explained to me that this happens when I mix git and
>>>>  Monticello commits. He suggested that I use a separate image for
>>>>  committing to GitHub, or file out/file in if there is a lot of
>>>>  changes to commit.
>>>> 
>>>>  Can this be considered a bug? Should I report it?
>>>> 
>>>>  I think it would be causing problems for many people.
>>>> 
>>>>  Oleks
>>>> 
>>>> 
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