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Re: How to fork on repo.or.cz?

From
Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov@ubuntu.com>
Date
May 6, 2010, 09:51 UTC
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<r2t86ecb3c71005060251xf1d185d6xa9e19a532d76d48c@mail.gmail.com>
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Everyone! Do you fork on repo.or.cz? Are you an export in git things? Please help out to fix a problem on repo.or.cz were after you fork a project you have to repush the whole history to the fork wasting bandwidth. Somehow alternatives are not used.

On 6 May 2010 05:38, Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 04/24/2010 03:33 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>>
>> Looking at this output it doesn't seem like my fork
>> is reusing objects from the "fork parent" repo.
>>
>> What wrong? How am I suppose to use forks on repo.or.cz such that I
>> upload just *my* commits and don't re-upload whole history again.
>
> I have been having the same problem.  I sent mail to admin@repo.or.cz about
> it and got this reply:
>
>>  Thank you for the info. Unfortunately the server admin team is
>> currently severely undermanned and there is noone to fix this (anyone
>> interested in helping out would be gladly welcome), so all I could do
>> for now is to add this to our TODO list.
>
> Jason
>
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Message 3 of 3 in “How to fork on repo.or.cz?”
  1. Dmitrijs LedkovsApr 24, 2010
  2. Jason MerrillMay 6, 2010
  3. Dmitrijs LedkovsMay 6, 2010

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