Re: Please check the current beta git conversions

Ulrich Spörlein wrote in
 <CAJ9axoSX6Ht7wi6kO3SeCS_qxnPNBddVZnE-nES5o66ha2opdg_at_mail.gmail.com>:
 |On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 7:21 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen_at_sdaoden.eu> wrote:
 |> Ulrich Spörlein wrote in
 |>  <CAJ9axoRBTz89y6v+LVjdM-FgfEbk8GHVy=TeK0xKNCY089Oaxg_at_mail.gmail.com>:
 |>|On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:53 AM Bakul Shah <bakul_at_iitbombay.org> wrote:
 |>|> git clone --bare https://cgit-beta.freebsd.org/src.git
 |>|> cd src.git
 |>|> git fetch origin 'refs/notes/*:refs/notes/origin/*' # <<< not sure
 ...
 |>|This is a quirk of the conversion. We have to patch up several tags
 |>|post-conversion, which patches up their notes, but that happens after the
 |>|full conversion is done. Notes are just 1 long linear branch, which ...
 |>|well, is unfortunate. So essentially every update to the repo changes the
 |>|last couple hundred of hashes for the commit notes
 ...
 |>|This will all cease with the final transition, obviously.
 |>
 |> I guess they will simply vanish and i could remove the reference
 |> from my config already today?
 |>
 |They will not vanish. They are there to map git commits back to SVN
 |revisions.
 |What will change is that they'll never change again and are just a static,
 |eternal record
 |of that mapping.
 |
 |Of course, freebsd committers can then in the future push their own notes
 |(but not force-push them) , but it's not clear what you would want to put
 |into them?
 |
 |If you don't have a need to ever map git <-> svn commits, then you don't
 |need to fetch
 |them indeed.

Fantastic!  Sure thing if FreeBSD moves over to git as such.
Thank you.

--steffen
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