[Expo-tech] loser git conversion

[Mark Shinwell]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 17:09, Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> On 2020-04-19 16:54 +0100, Mark Shinwell wrote:
> > The import of the hg changesets was more problematic than expected and a
> lot of
> > conflicts had to be fixed.
>
> You mean the hg stuff conflicted with the CVS import? Odd, it
> shouldn't have. The other three hg imports have been trivial, but then
> we weren't adding stuff on the start in those cases.
>

No, there were conflicts amongst the hg changesets themselves, probably
something to do with the way the importer linearised the branch structure.
Having files with different line endings didn't help here either.

As I say nuking them from the repo with bfg to get the space back (if
> it's significant) is remarkably quick and
> easy. https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
> But I don't think the cruft in loser is much of a problem as it's quite
> small.
> I may have a look just to check this evg as I'm rapidly becoming an expert
> in
> this game :-)
>

You'll probably need to find some way of preserving the tags. I have a
feeling there won't be anything to be gained though, as I think the
problematic files appeared in the gap between the cvs and svn transition,
and I nobbled them in the git changesets at that point.  You'll see there
are some empty changesets further along as a result of this.

Mark
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