[oi-dev] userland history problems

[Bayard G. Bell]

On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:02 +0200, Milan Jurik wrote:
> Hi Bayard,
> 
> in such case it would be good to add some putback check to avoid future 
> problems if mercurial is not so strict.

Absolutely. I plan to provide pre-commit hooks to check for this going
forward.

> Best regards,
> 
> Milan
> 
> On 10.04.2012 19:51, Bayard G. Bell wrote:
> > In the course of fulfilment of my request for git mirroring, I've
> > learned that we have a slight problem in our history: someone forgot 
> > to
> > put a space between their name and the angle brackets surrounding 
> > their
> > e-mail address. There are two ways to fix this: one is to ask github 
> > to
> > disable validation of this data, the other is to fix the history, 
> > which
> > is a destructive change.
> >
> > Since we're just getting on our feet, I'm inclined to make two
> > substantial clean-ups in the history, one is to fix these commit
> > records, and the other is to remove backed out changesets so they 
> > don't
> > show up in annotations (which seems reasonable, given that the net
> > effect is that no change happened, which to my mind shouldn't have 
> > two
> > records against it for most repository contents).
> >
> > That means everyone using illumos-userland will need to re-clone for
> > both mercurial and git. I know it's ugly, but I think this is pretty
> > much the last point at which we can bite the bullet and clean this up
> > properly--the other option is a workaround, whereas this is a painful
> > fix. On the plus side, we'll finally have mirrors of the canonical
> > available as illumos/illumos-userland.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bayard
> >
> >
> 
> 
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