Re: github freebsd and svn freebsd

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 5:49 PM Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 4 September 2018 at 06:53, Kurt Jaeger <pi_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > The github repo isn't official, because there are still some
> > consistency issues. The consistency problem is: If an repo-copy
> > from svn to git is done, how can that repo-copy be done a second
> > time and still keep the same commit ids (in the git repo) ?
>
> Restarting a svn->git conversion from scratch will usually generate
> the same commit hashes. However, there's an unfortunate point where
> the svn mirroring messed up [1] that resulted in bogus metadata on the
> manufactured git commit, and all hashes from that point on are broken.
> (Ironically this was from a bug in the svn mirroring process, not the
> svn->git conversion or git itself.)
>
> Assuming we're confident the issue in the svn mirroring process is
> fixed and will not recur we can redo the conversion, with a one-time
> change to all hashes from the offending commit on, and they would not
> change again in the future.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/c5e8194f33abf05314599d63c1e00d01aa354f47


What is the upgrade story for current users? How do they cut over? We need
a how to or something in the handbook.

Warner

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