Re: [Twisted-Python] the repository metadata of inevitability

2015-01-23 Thread meejah
Glyph writes: > If I do this with filter-branch, though, that's going to break git-svn > support entirely because the hashes won't match, right? "Maybe". I haven't tried that. Certainly the hashes won't match, but the git-svn-id tags in the commit messages will still match. So, *could* plausibly

Re: [Twisted-Python] the repository metadata of inevitability

2015-01-23 Thread Glyph
> On Jan 23, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Glyph wrote: > > ... an email address that's actually associated with their github account so > the right little picture shows up :) ... HawkOwl showed me a neat trick. You can add your git-svn-generated committer ID as an email address to your github account,

Re: [Twisted-Python] the repository metadata of inevitability

2015-01-23 Thread Glyph
> On Jan 23, 2015, at 2:04 PM, meejah wrote: > > Glyph writes: > >> Does anyone know how I would re-generate the mirror to fix this? > > You should be able to change the metadata in-place, and force-push a new > repository (or delete and re-create?) Obviously, all the hashes are > going to ch

Re: [Twisted-Python] the repository metadata of inevitability

2015-01-23 Thread meejah
Glyph writes: > Does anyone know how I would re-generate the mirror to fix this? You should be able to change the metadata in-place, and force-push a new repository (or delete and re-create?) Obviously, all the hashes are going to change if you change the author names. You'll want to look at "g

[Twisted-Python] the repository metadata of inevitability

2015-01-23 Thread Glyph
Hi all, Right now we have an Git mirror which has bogus committer IDs for everybody. Eventually, this will become the actual real repository. Before that happens, for aesthetic reasons, I would like to fix the metadata in the mirror so that it accurately records the email address of the committ