[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] git repository for sysvinit

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Dodgy tags:
>   2.86.ds1-12
>   2.86.ds1-13
>   2.86.ds1-22[.new[@936]]
>   2.86.ds1-31
>   2.86.ds1-34
> These all appear in git as incomplete merges.  They exist as tags
> but are not attached to any branch (i.e. unlike all other tags
> are not in the history for master).  "git svn" gave incorrect
> history for these.  "svn2git" correctly reproduces the tree, but
> it's not part of the history for any specific branch.  You can
> easily create such a branch with "git checkout -b $tag".
> I guess these were a result of making a commit to the tag after
> branching from master, since in svn a tag is just a directory.

Hmm, can we track whomever did those commits and check with them if they
were not "lost" changes, or stuff we ended up shipping as a stable/security
update?

> Anyway, hope this is useful.  If you don't want to use the repo

It is.  Thank you.

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  Henrique Holschuh