[Devel] Fixing messy git commit graphs in packaging repositories

[Vignesh Raman]

Hello all,

Rewriting git history for apertis/v2021 branches of the affected
repositories is completed and changes have been pushed.

Let us know if there's any issue.

On behalf of the Apertis maintainer team,
Vignesh

On 17/02/22 10:52 am, Vignesh Raman wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Due to some rough edges hit during the development of our tools over
> the years, a few packaging repositories currently have rather confusing
> git histories.
>
> To make things easier to reason about, we decided to overwrite the git
> commit graph pointed by the apertis/v2021 branches of the affected
> git repositories.
>
> The git histories pointed by the apertis/v2021 branches of the
> packages below have been rewritten using git filter-branch to
> completely disconnect them from the history pointed by the
> apertis/v2022* branches:
>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/cppcheck
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/cppcheck>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/eigen3
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/eigen3>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/fonts-freefont
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/fonts-freefont>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/golang-github-modern-go-reflect2
> <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/golang-github-modern-go-reflect2>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/tinyxml2
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/tinyxml2>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/hidapi
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/hidapi>
>
> The apertis/v2021 branches for the repositories below have been
> fixed using git rebase to ensure the versions in debian/changelog
> are monotonically increasing:
>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/cjson
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/cjson>
>  * https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/kissfft
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/kissfft>
>  * 
> <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/kissfft>https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/exfatprogs
>    <https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/exfatprogs>
>
> This means that git fetch and git pull on any of those repositories
> will yield complaints about the history for the apertis/v2021 branch
> having been force-updated.
>
> No other branch is affected.
>
> In particular the pristine-lfs and pristine-lfs-source branches are
> not affected, and neither are OBS and the APT repositories.
>
> The changes will be pushed 2 days from now and an email announcing that
> the branches have been updated will follow immediately.
>
> Let us know if there's any doubt or concern.
>
> On behalf of the Apertis maintainer team,
> Vignesh
>