From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Meyering Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs.git mirror status Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:49:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87hclxmvad.fsf@rho.meyering.net> References: <87y7f9n06z.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87sl5hmz2t.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <86zlzpr663.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189763571 3095 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2007 09:52:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs development discussions To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 11:52:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IW7qw-00079j-Ta for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:52:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IW7qw-0002ms-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IW7nc-0008Re-2v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IW7nb-0008QV-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:49:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IW7na-0008QI-QK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.29]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IW7nW-0005BX-Rc; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9F05A23C; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:49:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mx.meyering.net (mx.meyering.net [82.230.74.64]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3901559FE1; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:49:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by rho.meyering.net (Acme Bit-Twister, from userid 1000) id 1DEB7384AF; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:49:14 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Andreas Schwab's message of "Fri\, 14 Sep 2007 11\:32\:15 +0200") Original-Lines: 26 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78856 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab wrote: > David Kastrup writes: > >> I am afraid that this is not feasible in the current state of affairs: >> as long as all multi-tty material in the current trunk is only tracked >> and blamed to a point where Miles was synching rather than the >> original checkin, one can't seriously work with it. Presumably the >> information loss is not yet there in the arch repository from Miles, >> so one needs to either make cvsps understand the arch information >> present in CVS ChangeLog entries, or import from arch rather than CVS. > > I have created an alternate GIT tree that is converted with a modified > version of git-cvsimport. You can have a look at it at > . One advantage > of this tree is that it contains some merge information gathered from > the arch logs, and I have also corrected some author information. If it > turned out to be useful I can provide the script and authors file I have > used. Sounds good (but like David, I couldn't clone your repo). If everyone likes the changes (and I don't see why they wouldn't), I'll be happy to switch the repository on savannah to use the new version of git-cvsimport. BTW, the repo there already has some author information. If your authors file is improved, then I'll use that, too.