[pacman-dev] [GIT] The official pacman repository branch, import-tars, created. ec1fc664c9e806b1850a637336ad7c56a8931962

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. It was
> generated because a ref change was pushed to the repository containing
> the project "The official pacman repository".
>
> The branch, import-tars has been created
>        at  ec1fc664c9e806b1850a637336ad7c56a8931962 (commit)

So this was a result of being curious and the questions coming up in
another thread about some old code. I imported all of the 1.X and 2.X
tarballs that we have on the FTP server into their own branch here so
we can look at the history. The real power of this comes if you do the
following:

$ cat .git/info/grafts
## Initial revision, based on 2.9.2 tarball
d04baabafa2ebbad92741d1f87e6ff32999f894a
4795965caf371a55285678e5860ae66e926ebd95
## Commits where changes from 2.9.7 were merged in
## <commit> <original parent> <tarball parent>
5ef51b3e266cf43411947248886372001fdb207a
5ef51b3e266cf43411947248886372001fdb207a
1bcc87c3feb41dc8004c3d600e3a3501a4060b44
6851ce24abf07ac8bfe1406944351608ab0cfb1b
e37bc739bd704d5d0ac22d28d9f5a9334c61707e
1bcc87c3feb41dc8004c3d600e3a3501a4060b44
## Commit where some changes from 2.9.8 were merged in
## <commit> <original parent> <tarball parent>
fe0b4cccb2539165657b7f06bb0a6a1123377798
bd25319775249fe52d6e0353c984d682d457ecc2
ec1fc664c9e806b1850a637336ad7c56a8931962

Make your 'grafts' file look the same as this, and you will have our
history faked out a bit. I'm not claiming the above mappings are
perfect, but at least the first one is pretty accurate. This means you
can actually run git-blame on the "Initial revision" version of a file
and actually get results. For an example, try

$ git blame -w d04baabafa -- scripts/makepkg
   or
$ git blame -C -M -w -- scripts/makepkg.sh.in

In either case, the history will go back into 2002.

-Dan