Re: pkgsrc-wip: how much CVS history imported to git?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:08:35AM -0500, John D. Baker wrote:
> I've been taking my first steps with the new pkgsrc-wip setup.  Having
> never used 'git' before, I'm slowly getting a handle on how to do things.
> Once I feel sufficiently competent with it (at least for my immediate
> needs), I'll likely request commit access.
> 
> One thing I've not quite figured out is how much of the old CVS revision
> history was imported to the 'git' repository?  Or was it just a current-
> state snapshot?

The whole history from CVS has been imported except for the branches.
Branches in wip were not useful. Most of them are just the result from
'cvs import', the old method of creating packages.

> There's one package I'd like to roll back to an earlier state than at
> the HEAD of the master branch, but I've not figured out how to do that
> or if it's even possible.

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/foo
git log .

This will give you the history of that directory, including lines like
"commit $HASH".

git checkout $HASH

will give you the state of the wip tree at a particular point in time.
Copy the files away and go back to the current newest with "git
checkout master". Copy the saved versions into the wip tree and "git
commit".

Probably there are other ways, but this one should work.

Cheers,
 Thomas