At Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:02:15 +0200, Henryk Paluch <hpaluch%seznam.cz@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: Repo on https://github.com/NetBSD/src vastly diverged on commits
>
> Hello!
>
> On 7/26/26 9:33 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> ...
> > Seems a system broke and I guess the import/conversion is being
> > restarted. Miniscule changes may have resulted in different commit
> > hashes. In general, I guess the GitHub repo is safe to use---once it's
> > really up to data again.
>
> I was still curious when commits started
> diverging and found that it happened in
> 1993/08/28 with different CVS Header - in
> recent case file is identified as deleted
> (in Attic), while originally it was
> present (diff is from git show
> --format=raw commit-id):
There's a nasty bug in the repository conversion process that can be
triggered any time "cvs import" is used to update any 3rd-party sources
in the CVS repository.
I discussed the details in a couple of replies to a thread started back
in January (2026) on the tech-repository mailing list, particularly in
this post:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-repository/2026/01/15/msg000900.html
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