On 01/15/2010 08:13 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > Em Sexta-feira 15 Janeiro 2010, às 12:00:56, Jeff Mitchell escreveu: >> On 01/15/2010 03:18 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: >>> For Qt, we have one pre-receive script that makes sure the initial Qt >>> commit back in 1994 doesn't end up in the public repository. >> >> How come? Just curious. > > Because we don't want the old history of Qt to become public. There are > certain commits talking about customers who forced us to do something we > didn't want to, or one in particular where one developer was swearing about > an > important developer of another project. > > Not to mention, of course, the names of every single developer who had ever > worked for Trolltech. We cannot publish those names without each individual > person's consent. (privacy laws)
Yeah, I knew about you guys keeping previous history out, but I didn't understand why you specifically kept out the very first commit (as opposed to saying all commits before March 2009)... > 1) none of the old commits are allowed in the new repository. Since all old > commits have the first commit as final ancestor, ensuring that the first > commit > doesn't end up in the repository ensures that none of the others do. ...until now. This explains it...thanks :-) --Jeff
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