May we have and run a script against the old repository to verify that we get the same results for the new git repository?
On Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 9:53 PM Christopher Sean Morrison via brlcad-devel < brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > As some of you already know, we're planning on moving our main repository > and operations from SourceForge to GitHub real soon now. It's taken > approximately two years (yes *years*, but worked predominantly on weekends > and evenings) to get the entirety of BRL-CAD's repository converted from > Subversion to Git. This work, by Cliff Yapp, has included fairly extensive > complicated mappings to preserve as much data as possible, to fix old > corruption, to track changes across major disruptions, to verify and > validate that everything is preserved. > > As this is a big change to our development operations, this is an > intentional "open comments" period for folks to talk, to adjust, ask > questions, give feedback, get prepared, explore tutorials, etc. The > intention is to flip the switch in a few weeks. > > One question that's already been a point of discussion (and some of you > have already shared your views privately, thank you) is how to handle the > commit e-mail associated with past commits. If people want them associated > with their current GitHub profile/e-mail, then we'll need to set those > before migration is finalized. As it currently stands, everyone's commits > are associated with a fictitious "USER@sf" e-mail. > > If you'd like your commits associated with a specific name and/or address, > please contact me in private or make the change yourself in > misc/repoconv/account-map. This may be a property we won’t want to change > once conversion is complete. > > Cheers! > Sean > > > > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel >
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