[Mesa-dev] [Bug 94737] Git history is broken; prevents github upload

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94737

--- Comment #8 from Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> ---
(In reply to Emil Velikov from comment #4)
> There is a bit more info (including a link to possible git fix) [1]. Fwiw
> I'm all for creating a mirror of mesa, libdrm and/or others on github,
> although the tags will need to be manually resolved.

Indeed.

> Afaics most/all of them are signed, thus removing them from fd.o will be
> impossible without rewriting git history ?

Not that I'm aware of ... ? Tags are individual standalone Git objects, with no
references to them other than requesting the list of tags from the server, so
removing these objects has no effect on any other objects (the usual sense of
rewriting history).

It's true that the ones to be preserved would need to be recreated; from what I
understand, this would require a manual force-fetch from users.

> [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2015-June/087904.html

Oh, interesting. I guess we could mostly wait it out: keep the tags on fd.o,
and just not bother pushing them to GitHub. Deleting most of the r300 tags
(red_tinted_cube) is probably sensible anyway, as I don't imagine anyone would
want them ...

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