Proposal for the transition timetable for the move to GIT

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 07:07:47AM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> For each of these exceptional commits a converter to Git has a choice
> of dropping the commit, turning it into some sort of annotated tag, or
> leaving it in place as a zero-op commit (anomalous but not forbidden
> in the git model).

Or doing what everyone else does: put an empty .gitignore file in
otherwise empty directories.  This is safe even if your conversion
creates such files from metadata (why on earth would you do that?!)


Segher