[webkit-dev] Chromium Mac moving to Skia

David Kilzer ddkilzer at webkit.org
Fri Aug 19 11:13:35 PDT 2011


On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> Moving the chromium-mac result directories caused more of a disruption
> that I expected in that it apparently broke the git WebKit mirror.
> I'd like to apologize for the disruption.  We've done SVN server-side
> moves before, so I'm not entirely sure why this one caused a problem.
> If any git experts understand what went wrong and can tell me how to
> avoid this problem in the future, I would be very appreciative.
> 
> The only other large single operation in this process is when we
> delete the CG results.  Hopefully that won't trigger the same issue.

I'm not sure of the root cause of the failure.

We updated the installed version of git, ran "git svn revert -r 93166" and then ran "git svn fetch" manually to fix the repository.

Dave



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