moving iceweasel to git

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:05:55AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> 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.

Except last time I checked, it was updated by hand from the cvs and
didn't include releases.

> 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?

rebasing is a big problem with shared git repositories. I think we can
come up with ways to list our patches even if they are applied to a
regularly merged branch.

Mike