git (was: exim 4.80 to unstable?)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2012-08-07 Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-maintainers at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:23:52PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2012-08-06 Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-maintainers at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 07:11:12PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > >> On 2012-08-06 Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-maintainers at zugschlus.de> 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.
> > >> 
> > >> Thanks.
> > 
> > > So that's a go?
> > 
> > Yes, please.

> git svn clone takes hours. I have now imported svn into a local git.
> That means, that all commits to svn starting r2752 will now have to be
> manually repeated in git once the git repository is finished.

> r2752 is the last commit that was imported.


Hello,

I understood you were going to add .orig to the existing git
repository. I had spent hours there to get the complete history and
tags.

cu andreas

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