git (was: exim 4.80 to unstable?)

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:09:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:03:58PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2012-08-06 Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-maintainers at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > > I am sufficiently firm with git to convert the repository and will
> > > probably have time to do so tonight. I'd create repo under
> > > collab-maint, and it would be your decision to keep it or to move it
> > > into pkg-exim4.
> > 
> > Just to be sure I understand this: You can retroactively insert the
> > information contained in about 70 orig.tarballs at the correct point
> > of the history?
> 
> I can, but I won't, too much work. I'd do that for the versions
> currently in stable and testing, so that we can work from there.

There is also the alternative of using git-import-dscs, which takes
snapshots from snapshot.debian.net and imports all Debian versions
that are found there. That way, the git history is a lot shorter than
it would be when importing svn history, but this fits a git workflow
better than the svn history.

That way, we'd need to keep svn around for reference if someone wants
to see every little commit, but it is much less work. I have actually
never needed to revisit a historic repository with smaller granularity
than a Febian upload.

Greetings
Marc

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