Official git export (was: Re: FreeBSD problems and preliminary ways to solve)

[Jonathan Anderson]

On 26 August 2011 12:23, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Per my earlier comments, I think we've reached the juncture where a
> "blessed" svn2git export would be extremely helpful.
>
> [...]
>
> I suspect quite a bit will end up in github just due to its accessibility,
> but hosting our own is certainly also an option.  In some sense, this
> strikes me as secondary to establishing some of the details about how to
> prepare patches, known nits, and having an authoritative origin.

Indeed, that's the beauty of Git, that the repositories will all play
nicely together, no matter where they're hosted or what the "chain of
custody" is, but they do need to come from the "right" source.

I just hope that the consensus solidifies around the freebsd.git repo
that your.org hosts, rather than the freebsd-head.git one that
your.org, github and gitorious all have, because your.org's
freebsd.git has *all* of the SVN branches, including releases, vendor
branches, user projects, etc., whereas the others only have
[variously] -CURRENT or a smattering of release branches.


Jon
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