We have edit history ever since the earliest svn commits, we just lack a years 
worth of commits from the latest 8.x versions, so from a traceability view it 
makes sense, instead of having to look in two repos. Do you know how much 
weight it will add to a full clone?

Jan Høydahl

> 4. jan. 2022 kl. 21:01 skrev Dawid Weiss <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
>> 
>> You can push a tag to a repo that doesn't already have that commit (or 
>> history of commits)
> in an existing branch, without issue.
> 
> But why do it? These are refs - if they point to non-existing commits
> then I honestly don't see any value in having them. It would
> confuse the hell out of me.
> 
>> They are separate projects, but with a shared history. I'd like to be able 
>> to go to the apache/solr github
> and be able to go through the history of a file in different release
> versions, even if that specific release happened
> under apache/lucene-solr.
> 
> This is a different requirement, actually. If Solr (or Lucene) would
> like to keep such a history then I think it should just fetch those
> release refs and all the commits leading to them. Since these projects
> share a common root, there is nothing to prevent this from happening.
> Then tags point at actual revisions and everything makes sense.
> 
> This does not change the fact that I don't really see much value in
> doing all this.
> 
> Dawid
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 8:30 PM Houston Putman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> They don't have those commits, but they also don't have the commits for the
>> previous release tags in the repo. You can go to any of the release tags, 
>> choose
>> a commit to view and you will get a message saying:
>> 
>>> 
>>> This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository,
>>> and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
>> 
>> 
>> You can push a tag to a repo that doesn't already have that commit (or 
>> history of commits)
>> in an existing branch, without issue.
>> 
>> They are separate projects, but with a shared history. I'd like to be able 
>> to go to the apache/solr github
>> and be able to go through the history of a file in different release 
>> versions, even if that specific release happened
>> under apache/lucene-solr.
>> 
>> - Houston
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 2:02 PM Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> As mentioned in SOLR-15874, we are not hosting the tags for the latest 8.x 
>>>> releases in the split apache/solr and apache/lucene repositories. All 
>>>> release tags made prior to the repository split exist in the new repos, so 
>>>> I see no reason that the newer 8.x tags cannot exist in the new repos as 
>>>> well.
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure I understand - to create a tag you'd need that particular
>>> commit - the "new" repositories for each project don't have those
>>> commits (and arguably shouldn't have since they're, well, separate
>>> projects now).
>>> 
>>> Dawid
>>> 
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