Subject: [bug#76503] [GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:50:16 +0100

45mg <[email-masked]> skribis:

> If shallow cloning leads to a truncated commit history that doesn't
> include the current introductory commit
> (9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad), then you'd need to specify a
> later commit as the introductory commit during the first run of `guix
> git authenticate`. Other than that, it should still work.

In practice, it always starts from the current commit.  That is, if you
install 1.4.0, it assumes that the corresponding commit is authentic and
starts from there, rather than from the introductory commit.  IOW, you
only need the history up to a known-good commit.

Ludo’.