[PATCH] D56550: Add recipes for migrating downstream branches of git mirrors

[David Greene via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

greened added a comment.

In D56550#1353110 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D56550#1353110>, @jyknight wrote:

> Oh yes,  it's 100% the most likely scenario for downstream forks with history (e.g. shared internally to others in their org). But what I mean is that there's a lot of individual developers with their own private work-in-progress local *UNSHARED* repositories and checkouts, which will likely have no (important/intentional) merge commits because they're just working on patches to submit upstream.
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> Those migrations are going to be the most common, and such people shouldn't think they need to use these migration tools when a simple git rebase or format-patch/apply would likely be more appropriate.


Ah, yes, I completely agree with that.  Our developers here are going to want to do that for their own local branches (or we could just force them to push before we migrate) so I have some need to develop a process for them.


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