Re: [sysvinit-devel] Sysvinit-devel Digest, Vol 47, Issue 8

[Jesse Smith]

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> On 01/24/2018 01:00 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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>>    1. Re: Organization of git repo (Petter Reinholdtsen)
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>> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:21:34 +0100
>> From: Petter Reinholdtsen <address@hidden>
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>> Subject: Re: [sysvinit-devel] Organization of git repo
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>> [Jesse Smith]
>>> I'm open to the idea of reorganizing the git repository and if you'd
>>> like to take the lead on that to get it set up the way you see best, I'm
>>> definitely open to it. When I checked out the svn repo I only got one
>>> set of tags and no detailed history. At the moment, I don't want to mess
>>> with the organization of the source code more than I have already.
>> It isn't really 'messing with the organization of the source code', it
>> is doing a proper migration to a new version control system.  If I had
>> spare time available to do it, I would have done so many years ago.  But
>> the fact that I lack spare time, do not make it less important to do it
>> properly.  It is important for copyright tracking and attribution, as
>> well as provide clues and information to future developers of the code.
>> Dropping the code history is a very bad idea.
>>
>> Do you lack the skills required to migrate a Subversion repository to
>> git?  The procedure is well documented on several web pages, and the
>> tools available are quite good.  If you need more information, I am
>> happy to give guidance via IRC, the #pkg-sysvinit IRC channel on
>> irc.debian.org.
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> Since at this point any existing code history is over seven years old, I
> have no motivation to migrate it. The history already exists in the svn
> repo. Again, if someone else sees fit to take on migrating the code with
> its history across from svn to git, that's great. It's not something I'm
> going to bother with.
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> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 20:19:23 +0100
> From: Petter Reinholdtsen <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: [sysvinit-devel] Organization of git repo
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> [Jesse Smith]
>> Since at this point any existing code history is over seven years old, I
>> have no motivation to migrate it. The history already exists in the svn
>> repo. Again, if someone else sees fit to take on migrating the code with
>> its history across from svn to git, that's great. It's not something I'm
>> going to bother with.
> Right.  No problem.  We will just stick with subversion as the
> authorative source repository for sysvinit, and drop the git in the
> project repository until someone have time to do the migration.  Can you
> drop the git repo from savannah, so no-one misunderstands and belive it
> is the authorative source?  Those that want to use git can still use the
> git-svn translator, so there should be no negative effect on usability.
>

I don't think that's a good idea since A) all the new code is in git and
B) no one is using the svn repo. Dropping git in favour of svn doesn't
make sense at this point.