[Xcb] Pre-git history of XCB

[Jamey Sharp]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:26:26 -0800, Barton C Massey wrote:
>> Would people be open to rebasing the current repo onto the
>> pre-git history?  I know it would be a giant pain in the
>> neck to have to re-clone everyone's repo, but once it was
>> done it would be nice IMHO.
>
> I don't think it would be worth the pain.  It would invalidate every
> user's trees and branches.

Fortunately we don't need to rebase for this. If you want the history
available in your local clone, you can add a git "graft" for it; this
is the recommended way to browse old Linux kernel history, for
instance. Basic documentation is in gitrepository-layout(5) under
info/grafts.

If somebody wanted to write up instructions and post them on the XCB
wiki, that'd be great. :-)

Jamey