Joseph Myers :
> In practice there are a lot of ways people have messed up ChangeLog
> commits or commit messages that I would expect to confuse such author
> extraction, even before you get to the parts of the history converted from
> CVS.
This is also true.
I looked seriously at what it woul
> > Do we have a Wiki page for the cc0 conversion? If no, I can start one
> > based on my fresh experience with the Visium port.
>
> There is none so far as far as I know. Thanks for volunteering,
OK, the page is at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CC0Transition and linked to from
the "Current Project
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I strongly recomend that if you want to try this, you separate it from the
> initial repo conversion. That is, get the project to git first. Then
> see if you can data-mine author information out of the history. If,
> and only if, you get results tha
Joseph Myers :
> This is still hypothetical, since I haven't seen any scripts posted that
> would actual implement this, or any resulting mappings of commits, and one
> wouldn't normally expect a repository conversion to attempt to distinguish
> committer from author when the source version cont
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > My view is: contributors are free to specify what name and email address
> > they want used, but if they want something other than a single name and
> > email address for the whole commit history with a given username, it's the
> > contributor's resp
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 7 October 2016 at 22:26, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>>> FWIW, I thought at one point the consensus was that the mailmap would
>>> expand only to $use...@gcc.gnu.org rather than $userid@$organizatio
On 7 October 2016 at 22:26, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> FWIW, I thought at one point the consensus was that the mailmap would
>> expand only to $use...@gcc.gnu.org rather than $userid@$organization,
>> esp. considering the case where there is no single $orga
On 7 October 2016 at 21:41, nicolas bouillot wrote:
> oops this works better:
> alias reversed_make='make 2>&1 >/dev/null | tac | egrep --color
> "\b(error|cpp|hpp)\b|$"'
Or just make 2>&1 | less
