With Gna shutting down, we intend to migrate the official source repository from Subversion to Git. (Currently we expect to host the result on Github.)
I'm just getting started on this conversion (offline), but one thing that will be needed is full committer details of the form Jacob Nevins <0jacobnk....@chiark.greenend.org.uk> for every commit, where currently we just have local usernames like 'jtn'. Once we have published an official git history, these details will be essentially unchangeable for existing commits. If you have a preference as to how your commits will appear, please let me know, including your svn/CVS user ID. (If you send me a preference you'll probably save me time.) By default I will make some effort to track down real names and current public email addresses, starting with the most prolific contributors and probably stopping when I run out of time. I will use Gna real names where available, but I will not use your registered Gna email address if it's not public on Gna, unless I'm reasonably convinced it is otherwise a public email address for you. I'll also be using <http://www.freeciv.org/wiki/People> as a resource. For anyone I can't track down (or if I run out of time) I expect I'll use <svn-username>@freeciv.org (email to which will in most cases bounce; I don't intend to set up forwarding in the first instance). I don't currently intend to go through the history and populate separate author/committer fields correctly (except perhaps for the very early CVS history which was all committed by a user called 'freeciv'), so above I'm talking only about people who've actually committed to CVS or SVN. I've attached a list of distinct usernames found in the repository as of r35175, sorted alphabetically. =-=-=-=-=- I intend to use the reposurgeon tool, and broadly follow the method of <http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/dvcs-migration-guide.html>, although not slavishly (for instance I'm not going to rewrite commit messages to have git-ish summaries, and I'd like to preserve svn revision information). I hope to put candidate histories up somewhere for review as they become available. I'm aiming to be done by the end of April, because that is the best guess we have about when Gna will shut down. At some point I'll have to declare svn.gna.org closed to further commits to enable the final migration; probably there will be a period where committing new code will not be possible. =-=-=-=-=- Help wanted: - Do you know of pre-2006 mailing list archives (complete or partial)? (From when the mailing lists were @freeciv.org, hosted by complete.org.) gmane.org had them, but is not currently reliable. - Do you know anything about the CVS->Subversion migration? Various evidence points to it happening 2005-10-11 and being done with 'cvs2svn'. If the pre-migration CVS repository (pile of ,v files) is preserved somewhere (even partially) that would be useful. (So that I can take the opportunity to investigate and rectify any history mangling during this conversion; everyone I know of who's done a svn->git migration says they found history badness from a previous CVS->svn migration. But this will not block the migration if it doesn't turn up.)
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