[aur-general] My AUR4 migration workflow

[Florian Bruhin]

* Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93 at gmail.com> [2015-06-11 23:37:25 -0500]:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. Instinctively I'd have agreed, but I can't reproduce this.
> >
> > I think git filter-branch actually checks out each "vanilla" commit
> > from the original branch to apply the given changes, and doesn't base
> > them on the already-changed commits:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Am I missing something? Have you actually verified this or is it just
> > a guess?  ;)
> >
> > [...]
> 
> Either way, is it that terrible to make sure the .SRCINFO is up to date? If
> there is already one, it *should* just replace it with an identical copy...
> resulting in no diff. And if there is a diff, that means something once
> went wrong...

No, of course the change *does* make sense. Sorry for not making this
more clear in my answer.

I was mainly trying to figure out if I have to find out how I could
force-push to correct anything that's been pushed wrong, and then
found out it's hopefully not necessary to do so.

Florian

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