From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:40:30 GMT
Subject: Re: How safe are signed git tags? Only as safe as SHA-1 or somehow safer?
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That's not *as* painful, because you'd have the beautiful
fast-{import/export} tools in your new and old version control system.
But yeah, there might be better ways to do so.


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the biggest obstacle is the upgrade path. ;-)
>
> In the worst case we can always treat new repos as a different VCS. So
> people will need a migration from SHA-1 to the new format, just like
> they migrate from SVN/CVS to Git. Painful but simple.
> --
> Duy
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