Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] I'd like to import history of previous repository

[Joël Krähemann]

Hi

I'm sorry for doing that. By the way, I don't work on master I use
branches. Since all the history is imported now it won't happen
anymore. This rewrite includes the Subversion repository, later github
repository and for sure the new savannah history.

The tags were preserved this way at least for those of savannah. I
didn't integrate the branches of github repository, yet. I think this
can be done without conflict and history rewrite. github branch is
0.7.0 whereas on savannah it is 0.7.x.

Do you think it would be good to checkout those branches and put it on savannah?

https://github.com/gsequencer/gsequencer/branches/stale

Cheers,
Joël

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Bob Proulx <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello Joël,
>
> Joël Krähemann wrote:
>> I just recognized my efforts to push my rewritten history is not possible.
>
> As a daily use matter that is true.  Because primarily our task as
> Savannah helpers is as curators of Free Software.  We want to make
> sure that the software is not damaged by malicious users.  Because it
> is unfortunate but it has happened that at times people have tried to
> remove source code that has already been given to the community.
> Therefore in daily usage we must have security restrictions.
>
>> I have rewritten github.com/gsequencer/gsequencer.git history and did
>> some cleanse.
>>
>> Then I did:
>>
>> git fetch -p ../gsequencer.old
>> git replace --graft "f417a247f812239f27532a4e9674550e193c9e20"
>> "b2fb5b9ddfcac5698d9881605727d21cd1342809"
>
> Could you say a few more words about what it is that you are trying to
> do?  I am sorry but I am not familiar with your project.  The above
> replacement graft command doesn't hold any obvious meaning to me.
>
> Normally your users will not be happy if you rewrite history.  It will
> invalidate any clone of the repository that has been made.  Normally
> the master branch should only ever be "fast-forwarded" and not
> rewritten.  If you could say why you want to rewrite history and what
> you are attempting that would be very useful.
>
>> I tried to push but didn't work. Please enable temporary
>> non-fast-forward commits.
>
> At the risk of me getting in trouble for going past my authority I am
> going to assume that you are operating in good faith and open up the
> repository for you.  I have made a backup copy of the repository just
> in case.  In the meantime I have opened up non-fastforward uploads.
>
> Bob