Re: Rename master branch to main

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2021-08-10 10:37]:

> Le mardi 10 août 2021 à 08:06 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2021-08-09 20:39]:
> >
> > > Le lundi 09 août 2021 à 15:04 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > > > By the way, there is a way to archive repositories in GitLab. According 
> > > > to the description: “Archiving the project will make it entirely read 
> > > > only. It is hidden from the dashboard and doesn't show up in searches. 
> > > > The repository cannot be committed to, and no issues, comments, or other 
> > > > entities can be created”.
> > > >
> > > > Should we archive the obsolete repos? When querying through the API, we 
> > > > can set "archived=false" to filter out the archived repos.
> > > >
> > > > The following repos could be archived :
> > > >
> > > >      octave-odepkg
> > > >      octave-ocs
> > > >      octave-pkg-dev
> > > >
> > > > What do you think?
> > >
> > > I think that archiving them is a good idea. Ideally, before archiving, 
> > > I would remove the commits that never made it into the archive.
> >
> > What do you mean by “commits that never made it into the archive”? Do you 
> > mean the commits that were done after the last release of the 
> > corresponding Debian package?
>
> Yes. But feel free to archive without removing those commits: it’s easy 
> to find the last uploaded version using the git tags.

I archived the repos for octave-odepkg, octave-ocs, and octave-pkg-dev by 
keeping the current commit history. As you wrote, it is easy to find 
the Debian releases using the debian/* tags.

Rafael