[Twisted-Python] the repository metadata of inevitability

[meejah]

Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> writes:

> Does anyone know how I would re-generate the mirror to fix this?

You should be able to change the metadata in-place, and force-push a new
repository (or delete and re-create?) Obviously, all the hashes are
going to change if you change the author names.

You'll want to look at "git filter-branch" and probably just
--env-filter will be sufficient (and quite fast) for this use-case.

Beware that you'll likely want to change both of GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL *and*
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL (they're probably the same, especially if this is a
git-svn clone).

> Also: can anyone (probably only Tom Prince, unfortunately) with
> knowledge of how the buildbot works tell me if any of that
> configuration is going to need to be adjusted?

I have done the above to a simple buildbot setup before, and I recall it
being happy -- it usually exports a specific hash if I recall
correctly. Of course, Twisted's setup is likely considerably more
complex than mine was :)

Cheers,
meejah