[jira] [Created] (INFRA-7637) Help trimming Cayenne git repo

["Andrus Adamchik (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Andrus Adamchik created INFRA-7637:
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             Summary: Help trimming Cayenne git repo
                 Key: INFRA-7637
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7637
             Project: Infrastructure
          Issue Type: Task
            Reporter: Andrus Adamchik


Per INFRA-5936 Cayenne was migrated to Git. It was decided that we'd like to trim our history to start with rev 38d0b4a7a72507926d3c19e6f50deb2789b4d88c (which is present in all currently active branches and tags). I tried to do it myself using the procedure below [1], based on a "graft" approach. This actually worked well in local tests and reduced the repo size from 78M to more manageable 22M. However it failed when run against the real repo when trying to delete master branch:

$ git push origin :master
remote: Rewinding refs/heads/master is forbidden.
remote: 
To https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cayenne.git
 ! [remote rejected] master (pre-receive hook declined)

I guess this is a protection against accidental "master" deletion, and it is great we have it :) But it means we need infra help to accomplish what we are trying to do. 


[1] suggested procedure:
git clone ...
cd cayenne/

git checkout -b master origin/master
git checkout -b STABLE-3.0 origin/STABLE-3.0
git checkout -b STABLE-3.1 origin/STABLE-3.1

# rename main branches
git branch -m master master_old
git branch -m STABLE-3.0 STABLE-3.0_old
git branch -m STABLE-3.1 STABLE-3.1_old

# save clones of main branches... just in case...
git push origin master_old
git push origin STABLE-3.1_old
git push origin STABLE-3.0_old

# delete remote branches
git push origin :STABLE-3.0
git push origin :STABLE-3.1
git push origin :master

# now delete local repo and clone again ... otherwise git filter-branch  would get stuck 
git clone file:///Users/cayenne/work/tmp/cayenne 
cd cayenne/

git checkout --orphan temp 38d0b4a7a72507926d3c19e6f50deb2789b4d88c
git commit -m "Truncated root"

# create new versions of the main branches
git checkout -b master master_old
git checkout -b STABLE-3.0 origin/STABLE-3.0_old
git checkout -b STABLE-3.1 origin/STABLE-3.1_old

# the second rev is the rev just committed on the temp branch
echo "ad075710ba06ffc043f01b808d519882fa063ed9 <rev>" > .git/info/grafts

git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
git branch -D temp
rm .git/info/grafts # important ... push doesn't work with graft around

# push new branches
git push origin master
git push origin STABLE-3.1
git push origin STABLE-3.0

git push origin :STABLE-3.0_old
git push origin :STABLE-3.1_old
git push origin :master_old






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