Re: [gentoo-dev] git history older than "proj/gentoo: Initial commit" (56bd759)

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2015 17:29, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:55 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
>> > I'd like to start with: kudos for the very skilfully performed migration
>> > from CVS to git! I just committed a simple changed and it worked great.
>> >
>> > I was curious and started exploring the repo a little bit, and the
>> > initial commit says:
>> >
>> >> This commit is the start of the NEW history.
>> >> Any historical data is intended to be grafted onto this point.
>> >
>> > Is the historical data available now? Is it still work in progress?
>> >
>>
>> The official version is still pending.
>>
>> My unofficial version (which as far as I can tell is about as good as
>> it is going to get, but consider it draft) is at:
>> https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-gitmig-20150809-draft
>>
>> (The official version will no doubt be hosted on pure-FOSS infra.)
>
> so we don't have to waste git server resources on it, we could create a git
> bundle and mirror that and use http/https to redistribute.

Absolutely true.  Since it is static it would be pretty trivial to
mirror, bittorrent, or whatever.

-- 
Rich