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From: Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Git migration schedule
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On Oct 05, 2015, at 10:36 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote:

>How about: We move away existing repositories, and put the migrated ones
>in the /packages/ path. If people have existing repositories, that
>they'd prefer to use, they can move the migrated ones out the way, and
>theirs back. But they have to opt in to this.
>
>This means some (work done on pre-migration git packaging) history gets
>temporarily "lost". But ensures that everything is the same layout. And
>that any deviation was intentional, not accidental.

I think it would be okay.  It's only a minor inconvenience, although the git
remotes of the packages that get moved would also be temporarily incorrect.

Cheers,
-Barry