On 2023-09-04, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 3/9/23 18:29, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: >>> On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: >>>> Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant >>>> find it on google - is it still around? >>> Perhaps have a look here at the archives? >>> >>> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/ >> The archives will only contain data migrated from CVS - so only things >> from more than a few years ago. >> >> You want to look into the main repo for anything recently deleted. [...] >> This can be done via the website, though the search capability is a >> little limited. I ended up having to search from a local clone >> because your package name contains an error and the web search found >> nothing. >> >> To find your file, go to: >> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/ >> Go to the search box in the top right and search for: >> dev-python/reedsolomon (note that the package category is >> different from what was in your email) >> Find the commit one commit before the one that removed your package. >> (ie one that contains your package in its most recent version) If you >> find the one that deleted your file, then just look at the parent in >> the commit header and click on that to go back one version where it is >> still present. >> Click the tree hash to browse the historical version of the repository >> that existed before your file was deleted. >> For example, you can find v1.6.1 of that package at: >> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-python/reedsolomon/reedsolomon-1.6.1.ebuild?id=149a131188ebce76a87fd8363fb212f5f1620a02 [...] >> The web git interface is capable of displaying past commits. It just >> can't search for wildcards/etc. >> > Thanks Rich, > > unfortunately the web interface isn't helpful - I cant just navigate > the tree to find commits - > "https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-python/reedsolomon/"; > gives path not found - it looks like you have to know the commit first > by downloading the git tree to search it - not friendly at all!
With /log/ instead of /tree/ in the URL it at least shows the list of commits. From a quick check, this seems to include the commit removing the directory when it's removed instead of renamed, so hopefully it helps too with retrieving older ebuilds? (But note that Rich was suggesting using the *search* feature of the gitweb interface, which, in this case, also finds the same topmost commit if I search for "reedsolomon".) -- Nuno Silva
