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Re: attention automatic git updaters!

From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka_at_redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:09:32 +0200

On Friday, August 26, 2016 15:11:38 Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > If possible, it would be good to keep git objects that existed before the
> > move to curl/curl still accessible. We have many upstream commit URLs
> >
> > containing bagder/curl in Red Hat Bugzilla, using the following scheme:
> > https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/SHA1_HASH_OF_AN_OLD_UPSTREAM_COMM
> > IT
>
> The thing is, I'm not exactly sure what happens when I press 'fork' on the
> curl repo but I *presume* that I will get it as 'bagder/curl' and that then
> kills the forwarding to the new name.
>
> But if that happens, the
> https://github.com/bagder/curl/commit/SHA1_HASH_OF_AN_OLD_UPSTREAM_COMMIT
> should still work as the commit hashes will remain the same. They'd just
> point into my git repo instead of the more correct upstream repo.
>
> Ideally I can create my own local fork of curl as bagder/mycurl and the
> bagder/curl one can remain forwarding to the new place, but I'm not sure if
> I can actually make that happen.

Thanks for clarification! Both the variants should work for me just fine...

Kamil
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