Let me play Devil's advocate. If the number of irregularities is so small I can count them on my hand, and all are agreed we can fix them easily, then why not just do it and then not have any errata, or ever have to equivocate in saying that our history is well-formed and good.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Ignacio R. Morelle <shadowm2...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2014 03:13:14 I wrote: > > What is the current situation of the Git repository conversion? > Supposedly, > > the current repository needs fixing some things, which is why we ended up > > with the "wesnoth-old" name on GitHub last April. Is this still being > > worked on? > > I went and dug up the relevant ML posts [1] [2]. > > 1: https://mail.gna.org/public/wesnoth-dev/2013-04/msg00024.html > 2: https://mail.gna.org/public/wesnoth-dev/2013-04/msg00025.html > > From ESR's post [1]: > > * (1) could be easily fixed with git filter-branch or reposurgeon > * (2) appears to be commit 97d9aefdd166ab61260cbffa63ead04651e7c844. Any > others? > * (3) appears to be commits 909cbdb59ca2737c5f80f5c913c29913c59ebf2a and > a072e54e12de0e7a6445d60e241a860aa4f277b9. > > From AI0867's post [2]: > > * What I said above for (1) from ESR's post applies to this too. > > All in all, I still don't feel this warrants another full repository > rewrite. > We could just document the errata in a wiki page (or even a file in the > repository itself), forget about the issues forever, and rename > wesnoth/wesnoth-old to wesnoth/wesnoth to save everyone the inconvenience > of > having to explain what the "-old" suffix stands for every once in a while. > > What do you think? > > -- > Regards > Ignacio R. Morelle <shadowm> > > P.S.: Sorry for the exclamation signs, but I doubt anyone will reply to or > even *read* this post otherwise, if the activity in this thread so far is > any > indication. > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > Wesnoth-dev@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev >
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