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[KwangYul Seo]

Hi, Adam.

What's the current status? Do they still have different hashes?

I am trying to push a few commits to my GitHub WebKit repo from my repo
cloned from git.webkit.org. It seems I am pushing the entire repo :(

Regards,
Kwang Yul Seo


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

> Tor,
>
> I think we should retire the author rewriting script on GitHub.
>
> Jame's is right that there's a lot of value in having git.webkit.org
> and GitHub using the same hashes.  For example, both Eric and Gavin
> requested that when they started using GitHub.
>
> We would have some trouble adopting the author rewriting script on
> git.webkit.org.  For example, the instructions for using git with
> WebKit <http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/UsingGitWithWebKit> suggest
> configuring git-svn to allow you to commit from your git repository.
> When git-svn imports changes from SVN into your git repository, it
> won't know to apply the author rewriting script.  That will cause your
> local repository to diverge from an author-rewriting git.webkit.org,
> which is bad times.
>
> Therefore, it seems like the best way to synchronize the hashes
> between git.webkit.org and GitHub is to retire the author rewriting
> script on GitHub and do a non-fastforward push of the unrewritten
> repository.  That will be somewhat disruptive for folks currently
> using the GitHub repository, but at least it's only a one-time cost.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06 AM, James Robinson <jamesr at google.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Tor Arne Vestbø <
> tor.arne.vestbo at nokia.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On 24.04.12 16:04, ext Shezan Baig wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Adam Roben<aroben at webkit.org>  wrote:
> >>>>> In what situation does this cause issues?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Probably the biggest issue is for people who've been using
> >>>> git.webkit.org and now want to try out GitHub. Since the commits are
> >>>> distinct between the two repositories, they have to do a full clone to
> >>>> make the switch.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In theory though, these users should be able to just add a remote to
> >>> their existing clone.  Then it will just sync the commit objects, and
> >>> not the trees and blobs.  Not ideal, they would have two different
> >>> 'masters', but still doable, and not *that* much of an overhead.
> >>> Switching between the different masters should also be fast since the
> >>> trees will be the same.
> >>
> >>
> >> Right, a fetch should ideally just pull down the commit objects, but it
> >> appears git does not have this optimization. If it did, I don't think
> the
> >> issue of two remote masters would be that big, since you would at some
> point
> >> likely transition to use one of the mirrors anyways. And if not, having
> >> multiple mirrors/remotes should be fine -- I'm using both the github and
> >> gitorious mirror without any issues.
> >>
> >>
> >>> But I agree these two repos should probably merge sooner rather than
> >>> later, just to avoid confusion for new users etc :)
> >>
> >>
> >> I would support that if it means cleaning up the author-script (which
> I'm
> >> happy to do), and using that on webkit.org.
> >
> >
> > Whatever we decide to do in the future, author rewriting seems like
> > extremely low value compared to having matching SHA1s.  I think we should
> > get a clone on github.com that matches the existing git.webkit.orgSHA1s and
> > then make sure that they stay in sync (either with rewriting or not, but
> > whatever webkit.org does).
> >
> > - James
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> tor arne
> >>
> >>
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