On 15 December 2012 13:22, Ulrich Spörlein <u...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Bad news everyone, > > tl;dr The git mirror of the source repository needs to be re-rolled to > make the conversion deterministically repeatable, this will change > pretty much all git commit hashes. > > The re-roll will be done January 15, 2013. > > Not affected are the ports and doc repositories, nor is the svn_head > (for use with git-svn) affected. > > > Background > > The converter (svn2git) was handing commits and objects to git's > fast-import in arbitrary order, this makes merge commits have an > arbitrary order of their parent commits and thus these merge commits > have changing commit hashes for each converter run. > > This has been fixed, but requires us to move all the branches over to > this deterministic scheme, which will change all their commit hashes. > None of the contents of these commits change, so rebasing/remerging your > work into these branches is possible without running into any merge > conflicts. > > > We need your help > > A goal of these conversions is to have them repeatable by you (yes, > you!), so the correctness of the conversion can be verified. There are > also no backups of the conversion runs, as they should be repeatable > anyway. > > We need 2-3 volunteers to run these conversions themselves and verify > that the produced commit hashes match the published ones. The necessary > steps to do this are documented on the Wiki under > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow#History > > Please send me your output of git show-ref in a private mail, thanks.
Hey, http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/scratch/git-show-ref.txt I hope it's what you were hoping for :) My local svn mirror is synchronised at midnight GMT (UTC). Need anything else? Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
