I know that some people are interested in a more detailed commit history in bash's git repository. After all, it's easier for all of us to just learn to use a tool, and use that for everything.
The changelog files distributed with bash are useful, *but*, I claim that it'd be more useful to use the facilities that git provides for this. Because, it already has many useful things, like bisect, blame, log, and so on, that only work properly if you follow the good practice of making "logical commits". Now, I'm not requesting to add more workload to the already heavy workload that Chet has, so, what I'm asking is for help to keep an always up-to-date mirror of bash where we follow the best git practices. We'd also link every individual commit to the parent commit in the official bash repository. I don't want this repo to be used to build bash. My only goal is that people who are involved somehow in the development of bash have a good history reference, and make it easier for us to read updates and peer review the changes. This way we can test Chet changes, check if there are no evident mistakes, and make the overall development process of bash better. Also, I'd like to start using github issues to track bug reports, again, as a mirror, so that we can provide people with an always up to date reference of the status of the bugs they reported, and in what specific point of bash's history a fix was provided. I know that we already have savannah for that, but since I'm not a project member, and since I'm a bit lazy and didn't research what I had to do to request access, I decided to start with this mirror. I would like to know what you think about this, Chet. And also, for any other followers of this list, if they want to help me with the process of splitting the commits, that would be great. Also, we could perhaps start looking into the somewhat messy tests/ subdirectory, and make it a robust test system to check for regressions, posix compatibility, and so on. The link to the aforementioned repo: https://github.com/dualbus/bash So, for now, I volunteer to the effort of keeping the history in sync. Oh, I also removed stuff like automake's cache, the configure file (that should be generated with autoconf -i anyways), the -i files, and many other stuff that shouldn't be in the repo. -- Eduardo
