Re: [Groff] Second try at git conversion

2013-12-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> This repo is clean and I believe it's ready to be used for > production. Excellent! Thanks a lot, Eric, the git conversion looks very good now. If noone objects, please proceed and upload it to Savannah. Werner

Re: [Groff] Second try at git conversion

2013-12-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Werner LEMBERG : > > > This repo is clean and I believe it's ready to be used for > > production. > > Excellent! Thanks a lot, Eric, the git conversion looks very good > now. If noone objects, please proceed and upload it to Savannah. Will do, but I'll give it a few days for Keith and others t

[Groff] git gc

2013-12-09 Thread James Cloos
Using try 2, after git fast-import, du(1) shows: 260444 groff-git/.git/objects/pack after git gc --aggressive, that becomes: 11632 groff-git/.git/objects/pack -JimC -- James Cloos OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6

Re: [Groff] git gc

2013-12-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
James Cloos : > Using try 2, after git fast-import, du(1) shows: > > 260444 groff-git/.git/objects/pack > > after git gc --aggressive, that becomes: > >11632 groff-git/.git/objects/pack Right you are. Sorry, I forgot the pack stage. Doing that now. -- http://www.catb.

Re: [Groff] Second try at git conversion

2013-12-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> A point about development practice: I believe that in a > version-control system with real changesets, the ChangeLog > convention is obsolete. The whole-commit information that went in > ChangeLog entries now naturally lives in per-changeset comments. > > Can you think of any reason I shouldn'

Re: [Groff] Second try at git conversion

2013-12-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Werner LEMBERG : > Right now, I would like to stay with ChangeLog entries in the usual > way. A new maintainer might change this, say, to use git commit > entries only, generating a ChangeLog file automatically. IMHO, the > right time to do such a switch is immediately after a new release. Noted

Re: [Groff] Second try at git conversion

2013-12-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Do you have any plans to ship a wrap-up 1.23 before you step out of > the frame? If time permits, I would like to apply a couple of patches after the migration to git. I guess it would make sense to release 1.23 in the end of this year. Werner