[FFmpeg-devel] Preliminary announcement about the current situation

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 01:41:16PM +0100, Janne Grunau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:59:38PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:40:13PM +0100, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
> > > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >> Hi everyone
> > >>
> > >> I just wanted to say that iam as surprised as everyone else about what has
> > >> happened in the last few hours and that some developers overtaking
> > >> official ffmpeg and closing everyone elses write access without any kind of
> > >> public discussion is kinda nasty.
> > >
> > > as I understand it (from lurking in irc), the git at videolan is still up and
> > > running and was not touched at all.
> > 
> > no, see "svn"log or a checkout of git
> > 
> > 
> > From: Mans Rullgard <git at videolan.org>
> >                           ^^^^^^^^
> > [...]
> > -    git clone git://git.videolan.org/ffmpeg <target>
> > +    git clone git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git <target>
> > 
> > 
> > From: Jason Garrett-Glaser <git at videolan.org>
> 
> Sorry, my fault. I intially thought it was a good idea to synce changes
> between the repos to make merging of changes easier and get changes to
> users who just switched yesterday. It was bad idea considering the
> changes we did to the repo on git.ffmpeg.org. Sorry.
> 
> I will be available for cleaning it up as far as it is possible and
> wished.

I suspect that (close to) nobody pulled those changes yet, maybe you can
physically delete those commits from the videolan repository and replace
it with a cleaned-up instance.

Diego