I agree having a canonical version would be very valuable. In the mean time if you want to avoid having to do the entire conversion locally you can start by cloning the cinnabar branch of https://github.com/jrmuizel/gecko-cinnabar which is a local full conversion that I painfully uploaded to github.
-Jeff On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Myk Melez <m...@mykzilla.org> wrote: >> Kartikaya Gupta <mailto:kgu...@mozilla.com> >> 2017 September 18 at 07:05 >> It seems to me that a lot of people are now assuming a cinnabar repo >> is the canonical way for git users to develop on mozilla-central. If >> we want to make this mozilla policy I don't really have objections, >> but I think that if we do that, we should maintain a canonical git >> repo that is built using cinnabar, rather than having everybody have >> their own "grafted" version of a cinnabar repo. The problem with the >> latter approach is that different people will have different SHAs for >> the same upstream commit, thus making it much harder to share repos. > > Note that there's a third option, which is for everyone to have their own > non-grafted version of a cinnabar repo. If you clone mozilla-central using > cinnabar, instead of grafting commits onto a gecko-dev clone, then that's > what you get, since cinnabar revision ID conversion is deterministic (as I > understand it, anyway). > > Having said that, I agree that it's worth enabling developers to clone a > canonical Git repo. I've been syncing mozilla/gecko using cinnabar for a > while to experiment with ways of doing this. There've also been > conversations about syncing new commits to mozilla/gecko-dev with cinnabar > for a few years, although I don't know of any active efforts to do this. > > -myk > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
