Re: IMPORTANT: Migration of org-mode.git to the new server on sunday 5pm-7pm CET (UTC+1)

[Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>]

Hi Bernt,

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:

> Is it really necessary to rebuild the org-mode git repository (with
> filter-branch) to remove the ORGWEBPAGES/ content.  Anyone with a clone
> and local branches of the existing repository will need to move all of
> these to the new repository.
>
> Would creating a commit to remove the ORGWEBPAGES directory in the
> existing repository not work just as well?  This will keep all of the
> existing SHA1s for historical commits intact.

I think you're right.  Our goal was to remove ORGWEBPAGES/ into a new
repo with a proper history of its own.  As Jason did that with success,
I asked him to do the filtering for org-mode.git too -- which might be
too much (my bad).

Jason, Carsten, what is your take on this?

> If you remove the ORGWEBPAGES directory with just a commit in the
> org-mode repository then the SHA1's of previous commits will not change

Which is more in the spirit of what git allows: keep the revision
history as *truthful* as possible.

> and we can just change the URL to point at the new server and we're
> done.

I'm for the direction you suggest -- I let Jason and Carsten tell me
what they think before deciding.

Thanks for voicing this in time!

-- 
 Bastien