Re: git repository with fixed history ready

[Francisco Vila]

2010/3/23 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:18:40AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
>> There's one small problem with replacing the old repository,
>> *all* committishes change, and everyone will have to make
>> a fresh clone, and any work based on the old repository
>> must be copied over to the new clone using git format-patch
>> and git am.
>
> Could somebody translate for the git-impaired?
>
> - if I have no non-pushed commits, do I need to do anything?
>
> - does anything need to happen to branches like dev/waf ?  (again,
>  assuming that we have pushed everything)
>
> - if we tell new contributors to remove their lilypond-git dirs
>  before the changeover, then tell them to run lily-git after the
>  changeover, will it work?


No, no, yes. Anyway, recall that git is robust enough as to face a
complete crash of savannah with no backups.

In Git we trust,
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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