Regarding the usernames, the accepted way to do this in git is to have a .mailmap file, a la https://github.com/coq/coq/blob/trunk/.mailmap.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:49 PM, David Aspinall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Clément, all, > > This is a very timely message! I have indeed started to think of making > this migration again. Although I don't have a lot of time to work on it, I > would like to see it done. There is an old attempt here: > > https://github.com/DavidAspinall/ProofGeneral > > but it didn't get updated and indeed we could do a better job with the > user names. I'll take a look at your attempt soon (which tool did you > use?). > > I agree that we probably need to set a cut-off date and disconnect the old > CVS repo, the sync options don't look robust. What I could most do with > help is converting the packaging/publishing tools to use the github repo. > (The web pages also badly need replacing but I'm not sure if anyone would > have the stomach to do that?) > > I'm slightly wary of needing to manage merge requests so I thought of > using a GitHub organisation for this to share the job and to host a central > repo. Hence: > > https://github.com/ProofGeneral > > If anyone on this list would like to join, please tell me your GitHub user > name. > > - David > > > On 20/04/2015 19:29, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote: > >> Hi Pierre and David (and proofgeneral-devel), >> >> There were talks a while ago on the mailing list about a migration to >> git. I think this would be really cool. I experimented with various export >> options, and came up with the repo at >> https://github.com/cpitclaudel/proof-general/ . The problem with the >> process that I used is that it makes it hard to incrementally track changes >> (we would need to migrate once and for all). >> >> Most of the history seems to have been preserved just fine, but it would >> be nice to map CVS usernames to proper names and emails; the authors in the >> CVS tree seem to be [assia, crr, cxl, da, djs, fionam, gklein, hhg, >> joheras, lego, makarius, mark, markus, monnier, patrl, pier, proofgen, pxc, >> sberghof, tews, tms, weber]. Is there a list of names and emails somewhere >> matching these usernames? >> >> It would be great to get feedback on the history as recorded in >> https://github.com/cpitclaudel/proof-general/ ; also, if a migration was >> eventually decided, I could help with the process. One reason for migrating >> to Git and hosting on Github would be lowering the barrier of entry to new >> contributors: many of the changes that I made in my company-coq plugin >> could in fact be ported to proof-general. It could also allow for >> simplified distribution of extensions and updated versions, via emacs' >> package system. >> >> Clément. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > ProofGeneral-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/proofgeneral-devel > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > >
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