History was: Current status of Apache NetBeans donation

[Jaroslav Tulach <ja...@oracle.com>]

On pondělí 29. května 2017 15:39:37 CEST Emilian Bold wrote:
> Since you are donating a ZIP with a specific snapshot of a subset of the
> files does that mean that all history will be lost?

No, I hope it will not get lost and your work will still be useful. We are not 
the first one who needs to solve this history/historyless issue: even Linux 
kernel had to do that. As such there is "git replace" which allows one to join 
previous history into a repo without history.

I assume that Apache will host pristine - Apache approved repository - without 
pre-Apache history. People who will be interested in doing real work will join 
your repository via the "git replace" command and will be able to see why the 
code looks like it does.

We did a bit of testing, but details are tbd.
-jt