Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 22, 2008, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20081022211320.GW14786@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzlkwtpbq.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> 
> > Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them
> > under the Apache License:
> >
> >   http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git
> >   http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git
> >
> >   git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git
> >   git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git
> 
> Heh, very nice, with a very shallow history ;-)

Yea, well, some of our history messages are downright messy and/or contain information we don't want to disclose to the public. Its apparently "normal" for Google to just drop history when it opens a code base. :-\

The repo and Gerrit histories are short enough that I might be able to go through them and clean them up some (remove any comments revealing Google secrets) and publish the history under a different repository. Folks can always graft it behind the (now) real repository.

I can't promise anything, but I'll talk to my co-contributors and consider doing this in the near future.

-- 
Shawn.