From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git archive no longer being updated? Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86ws015tpr.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262895120 30445 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2010 20:12:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , "emacs-devel@gnu.org discussions" To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 21:11:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSyhz-0004XG-Vu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:11:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSyi0-0007rm-4Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:11:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSyga-00072F-H3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSygV-0006zP-FT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54512 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSygV-0006zC-6Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:19 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:33133) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSygU-00029U-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o07KAF0B032265; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3A89F3A105; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:10:15 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (David Reitter's message of "Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:43:58 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3443=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119614 Archived-At: > Would it not be possible to rebase the new changes on top of the old > branches, or directly do the fast-import with the previous repository > from Savannah? Or are there disadvantages to the old conversion? The old savannah Git repository had some disadvantages (mostly it lacked some merge info which Andreas added semi-automatically from the Arch repository to his Git conversion). So if anything, it's better to rebase from the old savannah Git to the new repo.or.cz rather than the other way around. Stefan