Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
I learned on G+ that there's discussion of moving the GCC repository to git going on. Some of you might already be aware that I did both the groff CVS -> git conversion and the Emacs bzr -> git conversion, and am pretty much the go-to guy for high-quality conversions of important projects. Since

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Eric S. Raymond: > In the mean time, I'm enclosing a contributor map that will need to be > filled in whoever does the conversion. The right sides should become > full names and preferred email addresses. Thanks for your offer for working on this. (I actually brought up your name at the Cauld

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Florian Weimer : > Thanks for your offer for working on this. (I actually brought up > your name at the Cauldron. :) > > Can your tools handle changes in preferred email addresses over time? It would in theory be possible to do this with multiple applications of the reposurgeon "authors read" co

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Eric S. Raymond: > Florian Weimer : >> Thanks for your offer for working on this. (I actually brought up >> your name at the Cauldron. :) >> >> Can your tools handle changes in preferred email addresses over time? > > It would in theory be possible to do this with multiple applications > of th

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Florian Weimer : > * Eric S. Raymond: > > > Florian Weimer : > >> Thanks for your offer for working on this. (I actually brought up > >> your name at the Cauldron. :) > >> > >> Can your tools handle changes in preferred email addresses over time? > > > > It would in theory be possible to do this

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Segher Boessenkool
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:26:25PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > One way to do it would be to mine the list archives for not just names > but name-date pairs. With a little scripting work that could be processed > into a sequence of map files, each one valid for a known span of dates. The > only

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Andreas Schwab
Florian Weimer writes: > Okay, it's not a big deal for me if my older contributions are > attributed to Red Hat. I was just wondering. Since subversion doesn't store author names, only committer names, the real attributions are in the ChangeLog anyway. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linu

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2015.08.23 at 11:36 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:26:25PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > One way to do it would be to mine the list archives for not just names > > but name-date pairs. With a little scripting work that could be processed > > into a sequence of

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Segher Boessenkool : > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:26:25PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > One way to do it would be to mine the list archives for not just names > > but name-date pairs. With a little scripting work that could be processed > > into a sequence of map files, each one valid for a kno

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Markus Trippelsdorf : > On 2015.08.23 at 11:36 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:26:25PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > One way to do it would be to mine the list archives for not just names > > > but name-date pairs. With a little scripting work that could be pro

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread DJ Delorie
> In the mean time, I'm enclosing a contributor map that will need to be > filled in whoever does the conversion. The right sides should become > full names and preferred email addresses. This information should be gleanable from the Changelog commits... do you have a script to scan those?

Re: Offer of help with move to git

2015-08-23 Thread Eric S. Raymond
DJ Delorie : > > > In the mean time, I'm enclosing a contributor map that will need to be > > filled in whoever does the conversion. The right sides should become > > full names and preferred email addresses. > > This information should be gleanable from the Changelog commits... > do you have a

gcc-6-20150823 is now available

2015-08-23 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-6-20150823 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/6-20150823/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 6 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk revision