Re: ELPA repository broken

[Paul Eggert]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> There is nothing you can do about it.  It is cast in stone.

There's always *something* we can do about it. We could ask ESR to convert the 
ELPA repository from git to bzr format. (I'd love to see the expression on his 
face! :-)

Less drastically, a Savannah sysadmin could do a fast-export followed by a 
fast-import. Then developers can clone the cleaned-up repository instead. We 
could keep the old repository available read-only for a while, for convenience 
in analyzing old developer clones. Admittedly this is not something one should 
do casually, but really, developing with a corrupt repository is not a good way 
to go.