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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:40:42 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: All-clear, was Re: [Qemu-devel] WARNING: Savannah back online,
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To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>   
>> As has been noticed, savannah git service is back online with an 
>> outdated backup.
>>
>> DO NOT run 'git fetch origin' (or whatever your remote is called).  It will
>> roll back your local copy to the end of april, and your local copy is now an
>> official qemu backup, so don't do anything that can harm it.
>>     
>
> It is not as dramatic as you make it sound.
>
> In the most usual setup, the Git clones will _all_ have reflogs set up.  
> So if you call
>
> 	$ git log -g origin/master
>
> it will show the history of _this clone's_ origin/master.  IOW you will 
> see exactly where a "forced update" reset your locally cached 
> origin/master, and you will still have the formerly valid revision.
>
> So no, there is no real harm done if you happened to "git fetch", even if 
> nobody pushed the up-to-date versions again.
>
> Oh, BTW, congratulations to switching away from Subversion just in time; 
> it is much easier to recover with Git: just push a newer revision (and 
> even if you should forget a revision, if somebody merges the former HEAD 
> and pushes, all is well in Git land).
>   

The tree on Savannah has been restored to right before the outage.  All
the mirrors should now be okay too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
>