Re: move to git

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Eric,

On 16 Apr 2008, at 16:47, Eric Blake wrote:
> there are now some stale tags
> in savannah's libtool.git, which point to commits prior to your  
> various git-
> filter operations (for example, the tag release-2-2-2
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=tag;h=c7bb42
> points to http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/? 
> p=libtool.git;a=commit;h=2bbe5d
> rather than http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=commit;h=724f291) 
> .
> Are you planning on rewinding those tags to point to something more
> appropriate?  And if so, please post the new SHA1 of the tags.

Either I'm misunderstanding you, or you're looking in the wrong place  
(an old
libtool.git; stale browser cache?).

http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=commit;h=2bbe5d looks  
like the
the right destination for release-2-2-2 to me, and indeed
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=commit;h=724f291 shows  
me a
"403 Forbidden - Unknown commit object" error.

> Gary, since you released 2.2.2, would you mind matching the  
> convention of other
> savannah git projects and do:
>
> $ git tag -s -m 2.2.2 v2.2.2 724f2912
> $ git push origin refs/tags/v2.2.2

I'd be happy to run:

  $ git tag -s -m 2.2.2 v2.2.2 2bbe5d
  $ git push origin refs/tags/v2.2.2

If you agree that is the right thing to do?

> That way, gnulib's git-version-gen script will produce a meaningful  
> output on
> libtool (even though we are not presently using git-version-gen in  
> the libtool
> bootstrap).  I'd do it, but then the gnupg signature would be mine  
> instead of
> yours.

Playing devil's advocate:

If Libtool moves to git-version-gen ala Autoconf, it won't be possible  
to do this
anymore:

  a-machine-with-git$ git-clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/libtool.git  
libtool
  a-machine-with-git$ scp libtool address@hidden:
  a-machine-with-git$ ssh address@hidden
  some-machine-without-git$ cd libtool
  some-machine-without-git$ ./bootstrap

Which is apparently a common usage pattern for some users.

Cheers,
        Gary
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