On ven, 2009-02-13 at 14:07 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 19:16 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was looking at the preview for the git migration. For the empathy > > module, there are some old branches in the git repository that were > > deleted from SVN ages ago. > > > > Compare > > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/preview/empathy/ > > with > > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/empathy/branches/ > > > > It is not very important, I can remove them manually after the import, > > but if that can be fixed in the script it's even better :) > > Yeah, the git import doesn't delete branches, and in the case where a > branch or tag gets overwritten it's backed up as branch_rxxx or > tag_rxxx. I'm leaving it up to the module owners to purge tags like > that that aren't important anymore. Unlike svn tags and branches, a > deleted tag of branch doesn't leave any trace in history, so just > deleting the branch will suffice.
Ok, no problem :) > > Another little problem: > > We are already using git for empathy. I'm using git-svn to push all dev > > made in git into svn. To keep the author names in git, I commit with > > that command: > > git svn dcommit --add-author-from --use-log-author > > Would be really great if the import script can set the author of git > > commit by parsing "Signed-off-by:" or "From:" lines in the commit > > message. Atm my name seems to be used for all commits made by other > > contributors. > > That's pretty easy, I reimported empathy with this, have a look. What > about commits with both From: and Signed-off-by:, which one takes > precedence? I'd assume From:, right? Perfect!!! Seems all authors are correct! You are my hero today :D I think From: should take precedence over Signed-off-by: because From: is explicitely set by git-svn, signed-off-by is more a guess (A commit from someone else could be signed by anyone...). Anyway, in the empathy case they should both always be the same. Regards, Xavier Claessens. _______________________________________________ Gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
