On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 20:21 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 23:26 +0000, Stef Walter wrote: > > I hope this is the right place to bring up these two small points about > > the git migration: > > > > * If possible, I'd like my real name 'Stef Walter' [1] to be used when > > migrating from from svn to git. I imagine we'll have full names in > > the commit strings? > > I think the first step here is to get an account created for stefw. Just > follow the normal accounts procedure there. (You can probably vouch for > yourself as a maintainer...) Once that's working that you can request at > [email protected] to disable the nnielsen account. > > What we aren't going to do is rename the old account or delete it - that > would create all sorts of potential problems. > > Once the stefw account is created you can ask krh to adjust his mapping > table to map 'krh' commits onto Stef Walters <[email protected]>. > The Committer: in will be right. If you've pasted the ChangeLog entries > into the log entries, then whatever is in there will appear as Author:, > since we extract Author from the svn log entries when possible. > > (I actually got krh to adjust the map table to map owen => otaylor > since I used to use 'owen' in CVS in the distant past...)
I updated the author map accordingly, nnielsen now maps to "Stefan Walter <[email protected]>". > > * The seahorse-plugins repository [2] should probably end up as it's > > own module rather than sharing one with seahorse. > > > > How would I go about accomplishing the above points? If I could > > contribute to help make them a reality in any way, I'd love to know. > > Hmm, I'll have to defer to krh on whether we can do this during the > import or not. It shouldn't be a problem (other than figuring out the > magic invocation) for you to use git-filter-branch after the import to > extract a subtree and then you can import that yourself as a new module. It should be simple enough to split out the seahorse-plugins subdirectory. I've tried before but always ended up getting distracted - I'll give it another shot today. cheers, Kristian _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
