newlib.git: cvs-to-git mirror imminent

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Fri Oct 14 20:32:00 GMT 2011


On 10/14/2011 01:21 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Roland McGrath wrote:
>> Thanks very much, Jim!
>>
>> Is it not possible to have hand-pushed git branches coexist in a repository
>> with cvs-mirrored ones?
>
> Sure, that works.  Just be sure never to modify or create
> a branch that will ever be updated by the mirroring process.

Can't you enforce that with server-side hooks, making all attempts to 
modify the head of any of the mirrored branch fail unless it is the 
cvs-mirroring doing the modification?

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