[aur-general] [RFC] Draft of the AUR 4.0.0 migration notification

[Tai-Lin Chu]

> use git filter-branch --tree-filter to add .SRCINFO to earlier commits

using git filter-branch  --tree-filter for any new commit is wrong
because it will run on all past trees. A lot of inefficient work is
done here.

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Marcel Korpel <marcel.korpel at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini at gmail.com> (Tue, 26 May 2015 10:21:01
> -0300):
>> I found out that if you accidentally commit the PKGBUILD without the
>> .SRCINFO, and then try to push the .SRCINFO file after, it won't work.
>> My suggestion to you, start with a clean clone of your repo. I was
>> able to up every project I have on aur.archlinux.org to aur4.
>
> Or, as Doug Newgard already said, use git filter-branch --tree-filter
> to add .SRCINFO to earlier commits.
>
> Best, Marcel