Hello, IIRC my user id was either 'vas' or 'vasc' (maybe even both). You can use: Vasco Costa <vasco.co...@gmail.com> (my current e-mail address)
Regards, On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Jacob Nevins < 0jacobnk....@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > With Gna shutting down, we intend to migrate the official source > repository from Subversion to Git. (Currently we expect to host the > result on Github.) > > I'm just getting started on this conversion (offline), but one thing > that will be needed is full committer details of the form > Jacob Nevins <0jacobnk....@chiark.greenend.org.uk> > for every commit, where currently we just have local usernames like > 'jtn'. Once we have published an official git history, these details > will be essentially unchangeable for existing commits. > > If you have a preference as to how your commits will appear, please let > me know, including your svn/CVS user ID. (If you send me a preference > you'll probably save me time.) > > By default I will make some effort to track down real names and current > public email addresses, starting with the most prolific contributors and > probably stopping when I run out of time. > > I will use Gna real names where available, but I will not use your > registered Gna email address if it's not public on Gna, unless I'm > reasonably convinced it is otherwise a public email address for you. > I'll also be using <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/People> as a resource. > > For anyone I can't track down (or if I run out of time) I expect I'll > use <svn-username>@freeciv.org (email to which will in most cases > bounce; I don't intend to set up forwarding in the first instance). > > I don't currently intend to go through the history and populate separate > author/committer fields correctly (except perhaps for the very early CVS > history which was all committed by a user called 'freeciv'), so above > I'm talking only about people who've actually committed to CVS or SVN. > > I've attached a list of distinct usernames found in the repository as of > r35175, sorted alphabetically. > > =-=-=-=-=- > > I intend to use the reposurgeon tool, and broadly follow the method of > <http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/dvcs-migration-guide.html>, > although not slavishly (for instance I'm not going to rewrite commit > messages to have git-ish summaries, and I'd like to preserve svn > revision information). > > I hope to put candidate histories up somewhere for review as they become > available. I'm aiming to be done by the end of April, because that is > the best guess we have about when Gna will shut down. > > At some point I'll have to declare svn.gna.org closed to further commits > to enable the final migration; probably there will be a period where > committing new code will not be possible. > > =-=-=-=-=- > > Help wanted: > > - Do you know of pre-2006 mailing list archives (complete or partial)? > (From when the mailing lists were @freeciv.org, hosted by > complete.org.) > gmane.org had them, but is not currently reliable. > > - Do you know anything about the CVS->Subversion migration? > Various evidence points to it happening 2005-10-11 and being done > with 'cvs2svn'. > If the pre-migration CVS repository (pile of ,v files) is preserved > somewhere (even partially) that would be useful. > (So that I can take the opportunity to investigate and rectify any > history mangling during this conversion; everyone I know of who's > done a svn->git migration says they found history badness from a > previous CVS->svn migration. But this will not block the migration if > it doesn't turn up.) > > _______________________________________________ > Freeciv-dev mailing list > Freeciv-dev@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev > > -- Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa PhD in Computer Engineering (Computer Graphics) Instituto Superior Técnico/University of Lisbon, Portugal
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