Quoting Fabio Fantoni (2024-08-17 11:20:01) > Il 17/08/2024 10:47, Jonas Smedegaard ha scritto: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Quoting Chris Hofstaedtler (2024-08-17 10:17:19) > >> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 23:36:31 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > >>> IMO, and from discussions in the Debian Perl Group, the blocker is > >>> the conversion of existing repos, both on salsa (which should be > >>> doable via the API as suggested in the sketches mentioned above) and > >>> also locally for hundreds of developer machines [git fails horribly > >>> on the upstream/ → upstream/latest change]. > >> I want to echo this pain. When changing the layout it seems almost > >> better to start from scratch. > > I have in the past found it confusing how to handle it, but now I find > > it tolerable (and don't recognize the "better to start from scratch" > > judgement), after I figured out (as also hinted at in one of the links > > by gregor) that you need to do the following, in that order: > > > > 1. unlock branch "upstream" on salsa > > 2. rename branch "upstream" → "upstream/latest" on salsa (or delete it) > > rename branch in salsa would be very handy, i searched for it when i > converted some repositories but i didn't find it, can you tell me how to > do it please?
I cannot (I sloppily drop the branch and the republish a moment later), but please see the links mentioned by Gregor. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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