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#8590 epel8 branch for rpms/cvs created with a garbage (Makefile etc.)
Closed: Can't Fix by ignatenkobrain. Opened by ppisar.

Closed: Can't Fix
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epel8 branch for rpms/cvs was created per https://pagure.io/releng/fedora-scm-requests/issue/14886 successfully, but the repository contains three spurious files https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cvs/tree/epel8:

$ ls -1a
.
..
.cvsignore
.git
Makefile
package.cfg
sources

epel8-playground also contains a garbage:

$ ls -1
Makefile
sources

Maybe the dist-git has some CVS-related discrepancies and created the stuff based on "cvs" word in the repository name.

Please create the repositories again and correctly.

It looks like this initial commit from master was used as an initial commit as well, so the branches have "common history" https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cvs/c/6e884f7c76517f6325acceca49ad967b8c4b2348?branch=master
Edited by churchyard

The packages.cfg is not a garbage file but a file for targeting both epel8 and epel8-playground with one file in the epel8 directory. This seems to be causing a lot of confusion.. where could we make the change clearer.

I know what packages.cfg is. My concern are these files:

.cvsignore
Makefile
sources

It is because it takes first commit in the repo (master branch IIRC), so it is because this is really really old package :)

Metadata Update from @ignatenkobrain:
- Issue close_status updated to: Can't Fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

Does a new branch has to inherit from the first master commit? One can do:

$ git checkout --orphan newbranch
$ git rm -f -r ./
$ git commit --allow-empty -m 'Init'

Now you have completely empty newbranch without any history. Maybe the tool rel-engs use could be improved like that.
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