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Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 25, 2017, 23:31 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> But from what you're saying here that seems like a non-issue, i.e. in
> such a scenario we'd just mirror the original repo[1], change the URL
> in git.git to that, and then anyone could easily use older history
> since it would be pointing to the new mirror.

Those who cloned before such a switch will still have the URL they chose when they cloned and did "submodule init" on it, I think, so they need to explicitly choose to switch to the new URL. So I would not exactly say "seems like a non-issue"; it certainly is an easy thing to work around.

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Message 18 of 20 in “Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule”
  1. 0/3 Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submoduleÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 18, 2017
  2. 1/3 sha1dc: update from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 18, 2017
  3. 2/3 sha1dc: use sha1collisiondetection as a submoduleÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 18, 2017
  4. Junio C HamanoMay 20, 2017
  5. 0/2 Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submoduleÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 20, 2017
  6. 1/2 sha1dc: update from upstreamÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 20, 2017
  7. 2/2 sha1dc: optionally use sha1collisiondetection as a submoduleÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 20, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2017
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 22, 2017
  11. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2017
  13. Stefan BellerMay 22, 2017
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2017
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 23, 2017
  16. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2017
  17. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 25, 2017
  18. Junio C HamanoMay 25, 2017
  19. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 25, 2017
  20. 3/3 sha1dc: remove the unused sha1dc/ directoryÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 18, 2017

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