moving iceweasel to git

Alexander Sack asac at debian.org
Tue Oct 9 09:05:55 UTC 2007


Hi Eric,

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:26:34PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Hello friends of iceweasel,
> 
> A couple of months ago I tried to convert the iceweasel SVN repo into
> git. It didn't go well. I ran it all weekend and it still hadn't
> completed. I think because of a bad cvs2svn originally wasn't the
> finest conversion, producing a lot of revisions. And the various svn
> mv's due to renames isn't helping. I don't think even if it gets
> converted successfully, it won't give a useful result.
> 
> So instead of just starting from scratch I think I will try to replay
> all the phoenix/mozilla-firefox/firefox/iceweasel source packages up
> on snapshot.debian.net to produce at least a useful history.
> 
> Anyone have any better ideas?

we have the upstream branch for browser et al already in the
archive. Would you be willing to rebase against that branch on every
new upstream release? e.g. for the sake of keeping our patches on top
in a distinct/exportable fashion?


 - Alexander
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