Arch tags are full commits (without any changed files) as well. Trust Arch to have put an unchanged tree in place (which seems to do reliably), and just add a tag & new branch. Speeds up Arch imports significantly, and leaves history in a much saner state.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
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diff --git a/git-archimport-script b/git-archimport-script --- a/git-archimport-script +++ b/git-archimport-script @@ -227,6 +227,14 @@ foreach my $ps (@psets) { # find where we are supposed to branch from `git checkout -b $ps->{branch} $branchpoint`; + + # If we trust Arch with the fact that this is just + # a tag, and it does not affect the state of the tree + # then we just tag and move on + tag($ps->{id}, $branchpoint); + ptag($ps->{id}, $branchpoint); + print " * Tagged $ps->{id} at $branchpoint\n"; + next; } die $! if $?; }