Repository Reorganization Question

[Ben Gamari]

Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org> writes:

> On 2013-12-09 at 13:31:15 +0100, Austin Seipp wrote:
>> It seems that while most people are in favor of migrating and
>> preserving the history there are a few sticky bits concerning some of
>> the minor details. So I think the discussion should continue, but we
>> clearly shouldn't pull the trigger quite yet. testsuite etc will live
>> on for a while longer.
>
> In the mean time I've updated the branch
>
>  http://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/log/refs/heads/wip/T8545
>
> to include the full testsuite.git history, with the history rewritten as
> if the files have been always in the 'testsuite/' folder, and with the
> blobs removed; moreover I've tweaked the sync-all script to check for a
> left-over testsuite/.git folder, to remind users to move it out of the
> way.
>
If the old commit IDs are really needed, one would think it wouldn't be
too hard to write them into the commit message while rewriting
history. That way you could at least `git log --grep` IIRC.

Cheers,

- Ben

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