Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I think that Miles' merge-commits should also be parsed from the log and
>> used as input data for git-filter-branch --parent-filter.  Once that is
>> done, git should be able to track all modification history to its
>> original source, even though we never had this information in CVS in the
>> first place.
>
> I have now published my git mirror on repo.or.cz
> <http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git>.  Note that this is a newly created
> import, it won't have any objects in common with the mirror on Savannah.
> It contains all the automatically detected merges plus a whole bunch of
> manually grafted ones.

Perhaps we need to design a "Miles&more" procedure by which we will get
grafts generated automatically for the "official" git mirror from
appropriately formatted commit messages.  How did you implement the
grafts?  Will they survive cloning?

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