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Re: HEADS-UP: git repo issues


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: git repo issues
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:50:58 +0200
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Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> we messed up with your conversion from CVS to git.  More precisely,
> when we announced that git would be the primary repo, it had
> - all tags pointing to wrong trees,
> - no signed tags,
> - a seemingly bogus history for the tree before version 1.2c.
>
> We have fixed the first two issues now, and are ignoring the last.
> We might look into having the old CVS history available for people
> who'd like to do archeology.

AFAICS the history in the git repository correctly matches the CVS tree,
only the tags are pointing to the wrong commits.

> For you, that means, if you've cloned the git repository before now,
> you will have to take some steps in order to have the right tags.
> This is how you delete all local tags and fetch them again from
> upstream (do not do this if you have added tags yourself locally!):
>    git tag -d `git tag -l`
>    git pull

Just running git fetch --tags should be enough.

Andreas.

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