From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Goals for repo conversion day Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:42:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20140127.184256.341472076.wl@gnu.org> References: <20140127003312.GA20522@thyrsus.com> <20140127.061653.244879983.wl@gnu.org> <837g9l9yir.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390844594 6208 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2014 17:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 18:43:19 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 1W7qDO-0002Yb-Tl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:43:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7qDO-0007v2-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7qDD-0007kG-UW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:43:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7qD6-00008p-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:43:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.18]:57761) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W7qD6-00006h-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from gnu.org ([213.33.11.79]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LwJFG-1VD8WN3xLK-0185sR for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:42:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: <837g9l9yir.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.3.50.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:LA4MDblPJO5vF/52pOx9QRG5YTp0n9CEVwpRyS9xZ/3Z40wCMKP ZxWXpspgOBQe5AzXScj/SGPJrqnoL1aILE7Zla/encPs+5t2k1V/edFONW3O7bGEzZZxwqL 7zPHEz2Ny+A/EInwsIxhIg18KECnSR/31GurgtFMJwE18UTh+M8to9FMQ/LaYCGVnKbnK9j 4LBXxNlDdrXH5Z6LSF6gA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.18 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:169174 Archived-At: >> 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. Oh, you got me wrong. My main statement is rather that the git repository can be easily inspected before it becomes `official'. Werner