Re: stale git repository on Savannah?

[Per Bothner]

On 01/14/2018 11:17 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 01:06:33PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> > If I go to: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/
> > and then click Source code -> Browse Source Repository
> > I get a git view that (except for the gsoc_2017 branch) doesn't
> > appear to have been changed since 2009.
> >
> > If I got to the SVN page and click Browse Sources Repository
> > I get a viewvc display that does seem active and current.
>
> The git repository there was just for the gsoc_2017 branch. I have
> copied that code into the SVN repo. I didn't disable the git repository
> to show the git history of the gsoc_2017 branch. I could disable it and
> it would disappear publicly, if it is too confusing to have a git
> repository active showing out of date code.

Well, the optics are bad.  To have people clicking Source code ->
Browse Source Repository see code that doesn't appear to have
been updated since 2009 makes texinfo look like a dead project.

One idea: create a "bundle":

cd .../repository
git bundle create /tmp/texinfo-gsoc_2017.git-bundle --all

and then save the resulting file /tmp/texinfo-gsoc_2017.git-bundle on 
ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/

You can "unbundle" using clone:

git clone /tmp/texinfo-gsoc_2017.git-bundle texinfo-gsoc_2017
git checkout gsoc_2017
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