From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Goals for repo conversion day Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:31:56 +0200 Message-ID: <837g9l9yir.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140125210132.GB13305@thyrsus.com> <83zjmiabsr.fsf@gnu.org> <20140127003312.GA20522@thyrsus.com> <20140127.061653.244879983.wl@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390840337 15448 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2014 16:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Werner LEMBERG Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 17:32:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W7p6h-0004f0-1H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:32:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60474 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7p6g-0003L9-Hp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49577) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7p6X-0003Jr-RF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7p6S-0002Hz-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:32:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:38735) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7p6S-0002H5-9n; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 11:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N0200300J32BA00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:32:03 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N02003N2J9E5470@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:32:03 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20140127.061653.244879983.wl@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:169170 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:16:53 +0100 (CET) > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Werner LEMBERG > > Speaking as the (almost former) groff maintainer: The conversion > wasn't perfect at the first time -- it suffered the *empty ChangeLog* > problem due to a too small time window for merging related multiple > CVS commits into a single git commit --, but Eric posted the git > repository for downloading (or rather, he posted a fast-import dump > with instructions how to proceed), and after some improvements I was > satisfied with the result, which is now the official git repository. With all due respect, Werner, I don't think your experience with Groff is enough to reassure us that the problems are imaginary. With its strictly linear history (not a single branch or merge!), and not even 2300 revisions, Groff's history is almost 2 orders of magnitude smaller than Emacs's. I also don't see any traces of converted references to old revision numbers (apologies if I missed them). And you only switched a month and a half ago, so cannot yet claim a long-term experience.