Public availability of Git repos

[Ian Young]

> On 7 May 2015, at 15:19, David Langenberg <davel at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/DEV/Git+Conversion+Status <https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/DEV/Git+Conversion+Status> 
> 
> seems to indicate that there's several Git repos in a preview type state, however, I am unable to clone them.  Is this intentional or oversite?

That's intentional; at the moment, the converted repositories are only available for preview by committers to avoid people cloning things that won't interwork with the final conversion.

This is because the conversion process is an iterative one, in which we're fixing up things like author names. The way Git works means that every time such a change is made, all subsequent revisions change their sha value, which in turn means that the revisions from the original clone are essentially orphaned.

So they really are only suitable for preview, not for basing real work on as yet. If you're interested in helping out, and you can live with that proviso, contact me off-list and let me know which repositories you might be able to look at.

Cheers,

    -- Ian




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