Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Luca Boccassi writes ("Re: [RFC] General Resolution to deploy tag2upload"):
> A side note, but related: recently I had the (dis)pleasure of having
> to deal with a git repository that was switched to sha256 (SUSE's
> Gitea instance). The conversion is destructive, and breaks, for
> example, git submodules functionality (a sha1 repository cannot use
> sha256 submodules). So I'd be very careful in assuming repositories
> can be converted later.

Since we want to base our work on upstream git, we can't just
unilaterally make fresh sha256 repos, I think?  (I'm not familiar with
the current upstream git notions of the sha256 transition plan.)

As for submodules, this is just another way they're broken.
Never use git submodules.  Blog psot:
  https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/14666.html

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