BTW this shows that my FirstCommit macro is not exactly correct: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/GitHub+Application#HUsingtheFirstCommitsMacro
Thanks -Vincent > On 10 Jan 2017, at 17:19, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Sergiu and Denis. > > I’ve put that information at > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SourceRepository#HHistory > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> On 10 Jan 2017, at 09:17, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That is indeed the first commit that can be traced from master, but you >> can get to the older history by checking the log of older tags. For >> example: "git log XWIKI_1_0_0" shows commits starting with 2005-04-15, >> when you did another directory reorganization, while "git log >> XWIKI_0_1_10" goes back to 2003-12-15, a commit named "Initial revision" >> (yay!). >> >> The problem is that things kept changing in SVN, from /trunk to >> /trunk/xwiki to /xwiki/trunk and then to /xwiki-platform/trunk, and >> while git can detect most SVN renames, I guess this kind of transitions >> really confused the migration process. >> >> On 01/09/2017 11:33 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> I was trying to find the oldest commit and couldn’t. Maybe we made a >>> mistake while moving from CVS to SVN and then from SVN to Git at some point? >>> >>> On xwiki-platform, running “git log —reverse” gives me as the oldest: >>> >>> " >>> commit fd92841151ac9d81da39babdb82516dbb7e4add7 >>> Author: vmassol <[email protected]> >>> Date: Fri Oct 13 13:57:10 2006 +0000 >>> >>> XWIKI-12: Reorganize directory structure to match Maven2 best practices >>> and cleanup build >>> >>> * Started creating the core/ module and added the first version of a m2 >>> build. >>> * Please note that that the m2 is NOT working at this time as more work >>> needs to be done to sort out the dependencies. >>> * I'm committing this to show to everyone the path I'm taking, to gather >>> comments and possibly help too... :-) >>> >>> git-svn-id: https://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki/trunk/core@1387 >>> f329d543-caf0-0310-9063-dda96c69346f >>> “ >>> >>> But this is definitely not the oldest. There are commits from Ludo in 2003. >>> We used to be able to see them in svnsearch but that service has been >>> decommissioned. On >>> https://web.archive.org/web/20130625112738/http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/XWIKI/search >>> we can still see that there were 7 commits in Dec 2003 for example. >>> >>> So my guess right now is that we lost history at some point. Is that so? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >> >> >> -- >> Sergiu Dumitriu >> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ >
