From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 23:31:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Update sha1dc from upstream & optionally make it a submodule
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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.