On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 14:50 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On 04/07/2009 02:39 PM, Robin Stocker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had a look at the preview Git repository for Totem as this will soon > > be the main repository. And there's an oddity in the commit messages. > > > > The "svn path=...; revision=..." text is missing from commit messages > > up to revision 3812. Here's the commit corresponding to this revision: > > > > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/preview/totem/commit/?id=a9c05d7434e533d5be48c3b114603e721d5a49d3 > > > > And here's the commit for r3813, which has the text: > > > > http://git.gnome.org/cgit/preview/totem/commit/?id=6125f8a78c9c1bac815691eff0eb33fcb870fcde > > > > What do you guys think could be the cause for this? And is it > > important enough to fix it? Knowing the SVN revision is useful because > > it is sometimes referenced in commit texts. > > This is because the git migration is done by migrating CVS, and then SVN > commits from after the CVS->SVN migration. I'm not 100% sure why, but > presumably this yields better results than doing a migration straight > from SVN to git.
I posted a description of the conversion tools and why we're reimporting from cvs a few months back: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2009-January/msg00021.html cheers, Kristian _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
