ffmpeg package moved over to git.debian.org

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Mon Jan 12 08:38:24 UTC 2009


Hi Reinhard,

Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> I've now finished moving the ffmpeg package from svn to git. I've been
> pondering for quite a while how to do the conversion, but in the end
> I've come to the conclusion that importing the old packages is the only
> way to do that sanely. If we want the old svn commits to be imported as
> well, I think we should do that on the basis of the package imports:

thank you very much for effort!

> OTOH, having the old svn history might not be that important after
> all. we now have a branch where we can checkout earlier version of the
> ffmpeg-debian package and let's be good with it. Oh, I've imported only
> after we renamed the source package to ffmpeg-debian. So the etch
> version is not available. sorry.

I also believe it's sufficient to only keep history of what we have 
actually released in the SVN days.

> Anyway, I've introduced the following branches:

Fine. I believe I am close to the point where I have to learn my first 
steps in git now. Please be forgiving if I mess up the repository. ;)

Cheers,
Fabian


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