Re: Official GCC git repository

2008-08-17 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> I've been waiting until I had the time to rewrite my import with proper >> author names. Does anyone have a correspondence file mapping the login >> name to Author? > I have a list that is about 4 months old. Should be pretty complete. Cute. How abo

Re: Official GCC git repository

2008-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:30:57PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote: >>> I've been waiting until I had the time to rewrite my import with proper >>> author names. Does anyone have a correspondence file mapping the login >>> name to Author? >> I have a list th

Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging

2008-08-17 Thread John Freeman
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:35:08PM +0200, Manuel L?pez-Ib??ez wrote: Dear GCC devs, Please do *not* use the full logs of the merged revisions as the commit message of a merge. Apart from making the output of svn log useless, commits messages are parsed are tracked f

Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel Berlin
It's listed on the wiki that explains how to maintain branches :) On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM, John Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 02:35:08PM +0200, Manuel L?pez-Ib??ez wrote: >> >>> >>> Dear GCC devs, >>> >>> Please do *not* use t

Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging

2008-08-17 Thread John Freeman
Daniel Berlin wrote: It's listed on the wiki that explains how to maintain branches :) I had no idea such a wiki even existed. It would really help future contributors, I'm sure, if, perhaps during copyright assignment, there were some sort of "introduction" process that clearly communicat

Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging

2008-08-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Daniel Berlin wrote on Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:18:01PM CEST: > It's listed on the wiki that explains how to maintain branches :) It should be on svnwrite.html, or at least a pointer to the wiki page should be. Cheers, Ralf

Re: Please, do not use the merged revisions log as the commit message when merging

2008-08-17 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, John Freeman wrote: > No one informed me of any commit policies when I was given subversion > access. I thought that since I was working on a branch, I had free > reign. Education would go a long way in preventing future errors. You are right. This is one of the weaknesse

Re: Official GCC git repository

2008-08-17 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I don't think adding YA place that has to be updated when things change > is a good idea. If this is a script that runs on gcc.gnu.org then you > should be able to get the full name with a minimal amount of effort > using a getpw* function. Okay, I