[SOLVED?] Recovery of deleted ports fails due to pre-commit checks

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 09:01:02PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote:
> The recovery of deleted ports in their previous form is rejected
> by the pre-commit checks on the repository server:
> 
> remote:
> remote: ================================================================
> remote: Do not commit ports without TIMESTAMP in their distinfo files.
> remote: Rerun make makesum to add it.
> remote: ================================================================
> remote:
> 
> I have tried to revert the deletion with unchanged files and then
> updated the ports' Makefiles and distinfo files in a later commit.
> 
> Pushing those commits all together fails with the message above,
> and in order to not confuse GIT, deleted files should be committed
> first, before applying any changes.

This is not needed at all, Git cannot get confused by something it has
no knowledge of. Once a file is deleted, or moved, the history tracking
stops.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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