Thomas Dickey wrote: > I've created a git-bundle, > but it requires some discussion.
Neat. My first impressions are that this looks nicer --- e.g., the initial check-ins have meaningful messages now instead of just saying RCS_BASE. Do I understand correctly that this covers the same revision history as the old bundle (i.e., up to 2010-12-07), just imported more accurately? [...] > + In January I also worked (without much success) to develop a > script to splice my changes onto a copy of the git bundle that > you had published. There is more than one apparent problem > (aside from my own lack of git experience). With or without > the corrected RCS identifiers, the process fails due to merge > problems. I recall that this only gets about 60% through the > import. (I can of course provide you with the corresponding > scripts, and we can discuss better approaches to the problem). Yes, I'd be happy to look at the scripts (feel free to send a private email). [...] > + On a related thread, it was suggested that I get mawk into > savannah for using bug-tracking. When I investigated that, > I noticed that they rather insist on having each file marked > with copyrights. Both Mike and I had not done that as rigorously > as I think savannah wants. So... Oh. I didn't know Savannah was so picky. I guess it would also be useful for other pedantic legal teams that aren't willing to review the source control logs. > I made that change on top of > my 20101207 tag, calling that 20101210 (and kept the timestamps > on that date to avoid confusing git further). The tag is "old" > of course since it's solely done to mark copyrights as of that > date, and to avoid confusion with other changes that I have in > mind. When did you make this change? If not December of 2010, this is very confusing, so in that case please add a note to CHANGES mentioning when it happened. I think it's ok if the version number doesn't match the date but the date should be recorded somewhere. [...] > I think those are enough pieces in place that I can followup on > savannah; but have an idea that we need some discussion on how > to proceed for your idea of providing patches based on git. > (It would be nice if there were some way to record the transformation > from my rcs/git archive into yours so that I could generate a better > export). Yeah, unfortunately most of my tweaks were manual (e.g., splitting changes produced by the "indent" program from semantic changes). It would probably be possible to automate if I were less lazy. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
