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Am Sunday 19 October 2008 20:06:50 schrieb Richard Purdie:
> The reason this is huge is that we seem to have ton of zero length
> files. Given its so totally broken I'm keen to do the above so we need a
> plan. I propose:
>
> a) repo goes read only
> b) checkout is made
> c) conversion is run
> d) sanity checks are made
> e) new revisions are pushed
> f) graft is added to the main OE repo
> g) commits based on the old history are blocked
> h) repo is made writable again
> i) people are advised to rebase any unpushed changes
>
> Is anyone strongly against this? If not, when should we do this?

No objection. Please synchronize with Jan L=FCbbe, he has lots of experienc=
e=20
with the conversion. Feel free to chose the time/date when you (both) have=
=20
resources to do that. Please announce a day before though.

Thanks,

Mickey.