From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Progress on the git repo cleanup Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:15:26 +0100 Message-ID: <87y50n84o1.fsf@igel.home> References: <20140306182108.8ABE5380687@snark.thyrsus.com> <7A33D431-2709-4086-87B4-420C6B39148C@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394136940 6964 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2014 20:15:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 20:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 06 21:15:48 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 1WLehm-0003xN-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:15:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60104 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLehm-0005im-33 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLehd-0005hf-HG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:15:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLehY-0000cA-82 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:15:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:44751) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLehX-0000Yx-Oe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:15:32 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (frontend1.mail.intern.m-online.net [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fg39W4t3yz3hj1C; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:15:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3fg39W4m1QzbbfG; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:15:27 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id zxPxokAk3Qb0; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:15:26 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: f9G5u2VVbqUcIs26c4oQ6aQNDhklgnPB959wJYwQBRA= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-46-244-225-217.dynamic.mnet-online.de [46.244.225.217]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:15:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB63D2C0653; Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:15:26 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: I'd like some JUNK FOOD... and then I want to be ALONE -- In-Reply-To: <7A33D431-2709-4086-87B4-420C6B39148C@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Thu, 6 Mar 2014 14:53:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.10 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:170188 Archived-At: David Reitter writes: > What is the procedure for those of us that keep a separate branch around, which has multiple (50+) merges from the mainline or Emacs 23, and many private changes? The minimum requirement is a mapping of every referenced commit in git.sv.gnu.org/emacs to a commit in the converted repo (it doesn't have to be one-to-one, but can be many-to-one). This can then be used to create a script based on bzr-fastimport to convert private branches. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."