> On May 17, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz> wrote: > > On 5/17/19 1:06 AM, Joseph Myers wrote: >> That repository >> represents what I consider the collaboratively built consensus on such >> things as the desired author map (including handling of the ambiguous >> author name), which directories represent branches and tags, and what tags >> should be kept or removed - but building up such a consensus and keeping > > About the map. I agree with Richard that we should do best approach and not > to fully reconstruct history of people who has switched email address multi > times. I cloned git://thyrsus.com/repositories/gcc-conversion.git and made > a clean up: > > - for logins with duplicite emails I chose the latest one used on gcc-patches > mailing list > - comments were removed > - a few entries contained timezone and I stripped that > > Final version of the map can be seen here: > https://github.com/marxin/gcc-git-conversion/blob/cleanup/gcc.map > > @Maxim: would it be possible to update your script so that it will use: > --authors-file=gcc.map ?
Should not be a problem. I'll try that. > > Is it desired for the transition to use the author map? Do we want it? IIUC, the downside is that converted repo will not match current git mirror unless we do log re-writing, which would add extra info on the side. -- Maxim Kuvyrkov www.linaro.org
